Race & Health

For pregnant Latinas, food choices could reduce the risk of preeclampsia, a dangerous type of high blood pressure, and a diet based on cultural food preferences, rather than on U.S. government benchmarks, is more likely to help ward off the illness, a new study shows. Researchers at the USC Keck School of Medicine found that […]

Para las latinas embarazadas, la elección de los alimentos podría reducir el riesgo de preeclampsia, un tipo especialmente peligroso de hipertensión. Un nuevo estudio muestra que es más probable que una dieta basada en preferencias alimentarias culturales, en lugar de las guías oficiales, ayude a prevenir esta enfermedad. Investigadores de la Escuela de Medicina Keck […]

OAKLAND, California – El Medi-Cal llegó a Antonio Abundis cuando el conserje más lo necesitaba. Poco después que Abundis pasara de tener cobertura limitada a una cobertura completa en 2022, bajo la expansión del Medi-Cal de California para adultos mayores sin papeles, fue diagnosticado con leucemia, un tipo de cáncer que afecta las células de […]

Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, explained on “CBS Mornings” why many at-risk Americans do not know about medication to prevent HIV infection through sexual contact or do not have access to it. Only one-third of people who could benefit from the medication, known as preexposure prophylaxis or PrEP, are prescribed it, […]

KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani discussed how Mobile, Alabama, is weighing whether to use opioid settlement funds to pay treatment costs now or invest in long-term solutions to cut future addiction rates on NPR’s “Morning Edition” on Feb. 27. Click here to hear Pattani on “Morning Edition” Read Pattani’s series, “Payback: Tracking the […]

Los Angeles anesthesiologist Marilyn Singleton was outraged about a California requirement that every continuing medical education course include training in implicit bias — the ways in which physicians’ unconscious attitudes might contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Singleton, who is Black and has practiced for 50 years, sees calling doctors out for […]

En abril, 12 años después que una agencia federal clasificara el formaldehído como carcinógeno en seres humanos, la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA) tiene programado presentar una propuesta que prohibiría ese químico en productos para alisar el cabello. La medida llega en un momento en que investigadores están cada vez más preocupados por los […]

In April, a dozen years after a federal agency classified formaldehyde a human carcinogen, the Food and Drug Administration is tentatively scheduled to unveil a proposal to consider banning the chemical in hair-straightening products. The move comes at a time of rising alarm among researchers over the health effects of hair straighteners, products widely used […]

Si tú mismo o alguien que conoces está sufriendo una crisis de salud mental, contacta a la Línea de Prevención del Suicidio y Crisis del 988, llamando o texteando “988”. DALTON, Georgia.- Un grupo, desde adolescentes hasta adultos mayores, se reunió en una oficina dentro de un supermercado, donde letreros de alimentos en español apelan […]

Charity Watkins sensed something was deeply wrong when she experienced exhaustion after her daughter was born. At times, Watkins, then 30, had to stop on the stairway to catch her breath. Her obstetrician said postpartum depression likely caused the weakness and fatigue. When Watkins, who is Black, complained of a cough, her doctor blamed the […]