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Increasing Overdose Death Rates are Highest Among Black, Indigenous Individuals
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) held a briefing this week to address the public health concern regarding historic rates of drug...
Pandemic OD deaths in Black, Hispanic communities
While it is well known that drug overdose deaths increased during the start of the pandemic — prompting an unprecedented rise in stress and anxiety...
Treatment Inequity: Examining the Influence of Non-Hispanic Black Race and Ethnicity on Pancreatic Cancer Care and Survival in Wisconsin
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We investigated race and ethnicity-based disparities in first course treatment and overall survival among Wisconsin pa...
Melanoma in People of Color: What's the Risk—and Will Sunscreen Help? A Black Dermatologist Explains
Melanoma is a potentially deadly form of skin cancer that effects people of every racial and ethnic group. The risk factor most closely linked to d...
'The Hate U Give' grapples with themes of identity, racism and police violence through the eyes of a Black teenager
The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas, follows Starr Carter, a 16-year-old who witnesses the killing of her childhood friend by a police officer during ...
Overdose death rates increased significantly for Black, American Indian/Alaska Native people in 2020 | CDC Online Newsroom
In 2020, overdose death rates (number of drug overdose deaths per 100,000 people) increased 44 percent for Black* people and 39 percent for America...
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