Race & Health

Millones de personas que soliciten Medicaid en los próximos años tendrán que demostrar que han estado trabajando, estudiando o haciendo voluntariado durante al menos un mes antes de poder obtener o conservar este seguro de salud federal que gerencian los estados. Pero legisladores republicanos en algunos estados creen que las nuevas reglas —parte del One […]

Durante meses, un clima de mucho miedo se ha instalado en la comunidad inmigrante de San Bernardino, California. Esto ha hecho más difícil el trabajo de María González como promotora de salud en esta ciudad donde casi una cuarta parte de los habitantes nació en el extranjero. La situación comenzó a agravarse durante el verano, […]

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BUFFALO — Twice already Narseary and Vernal Harris have watched a son die. The first time — Paul, at age 26 — was agonizing and frenzied, his body tethered to a machine meant to keep him alive as his incurable sickle cell disease progressed. When the same illness ravaged Solomon, at age 33, the Harrises […]

The Baltimore health system put Robert Peace back together after a car crash shattered his pelvis. Then it nearly killed him, he says. A painful bone infection that developed after surgery and a lack of follow-up care landed him in the operating room five more times, kept him homebound for a year and left him […]

Psychiatric hospitalizations of Latino children and young adults in California are rising dramatically — at a much faster pace than among their white and black peers, according to state data. After participating in the mental health program at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience, Nubia Flores Miranda, 18, decided to major in psychology at San […]

Black Americans age 65 and older enjoy shorter active lives than whites do and more of their late years are swallowed up by disabilities and unmet needs, researchers have found. The disparity is widest for elderly black women, a group that has seen no gains since the early 1980s in either the number of remaining […]

For consumers, the idea of getting a genetic test to determine risks for hereditary diseases is becoming an increasingly common proposition, but new research suggests that sometimes the accuracy of those results may depend on what ethnicity you are. Take, for instance, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, one of the most common hereditary heart diseases. It is also […]

Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). Dr. Yamanda Edwards, the daughter of a truck driver and a stay-at-home mom, grew up just a few miles from Martin Luther King/Drew Medical Center, at the time an iconic yet troubled hospital in South Los Angeles. As a child in the 1990s, she […]

This story is part of a partnership that includes Oregon Public Broadcasting, NPR and Kaiser Health News. This story can be republished for free (details). A recent study out of Oregon suggests emergency medical responders — EMTs and paramedics — may be treating minority patients differently from the way they treat white patients. Specifically, the scientists found that […]