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WASHINGTON — Ask 10 people how a federal health care agency might tackle “environmental justice,” and you’ll get 10 answers. For Jackson, Miss., residents, it is ensuring potable water after […]
A minuscule new HHS office has a mammoth goal: Tackling environmental justice Read More »
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Gladys Maestre is on a scouting mission. The Alzheimer’s disease researcher is driving through Southmost, a Mexican American neighborhood just north of looming sections of the border
On the Texas-Mexico border, a bold plan to diversify Alzheimer’s research takes shape Read More »
Over 70% of Indigenous people in the United States live in urban areas. But urban Indian health makes up less than 2% of the Indian Health Service’s annual budget. While
When Indigenous People Move to Cities, Health Care Funding Doesn’t Follow Read More »
David Confer, a bicyclist and an audio technician, told his doctor he “used to be Ph.D. level” during a 2019 appointment in Washington, D.C. Confer, then 50, was speaking figuratively:
Embedded Bias: How Medical Records Sow Discrimination Read More »
A few weeks after the supreme court’s 24 June decision to overturn the nationwide abortion rights established by Roe v Wade, the pharmacy chain Walgreens sent Annie England Noblin a
Republican abortion bans restrict women’s access to other essential medicine Read More »
Covid has been among the top three causes of death in California for much of the pandemic. It dropped to 14th in the spring before rising in rank again this
Covid Still Kills, but the Demographics of Its Victims Are Shifting Read More »
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