racial disparities

The CDC report on the 2023 deaths was drawn from death certificates. The CDC counts women who died while pregnant, during childbirth and up to 42 days after birth.

She writes on how the health care system causes Black people to “live sicker and die quicker” compared white people. In this interview, she talks about how to tackle racial disparities in health care.

Research suggests repeated exposure to stressors, such as racism and discrimination, leads to poor health outcomes among Black Americans. In Part 1 of this special series "The Price of Pain: Black Health & Reparations in America," we explore the effects of racial weathering.

A novel program in Tennessee aims to interest more Black and other minority medical students in organ transplants, to help ease troubling disparities.

A clinical trial is recruiting volunteers to try to figure out if 3D mammograms are better than standard 2D imaging for catching advanced cancers. The trial includes a large number of Black women who face disparities in breast cancer death rates.

"We won't heal until we make sense of the crack epidemic," Donovan X. Ramsey says. His book, When Crack Was King, examines the drug's destructive path through the Black community.

Minorities tend to be diagnosed at later stages of the disease, which would exclude them from use of Leqembi. Few Black people were included in the main trial of the drug.

Some medical professionals are concerned the decision could have implications for the diversity of medical students, the practice of medicine, and patient care.

Non-Hispanic Black women — regardless of income or education level — die at nearly three times the rate of non-Hispanic white women.

Powerful new artificial intelligence tools can perpetuate long-standing racial inequities if they are not designed very carefully. Researchers and regulators are taking note, but perils are vast.