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Credit: DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.4945 Certain racial and ethnic minorities develop type 2 diabetes at a younger age than white Americans, meaning current diabetes…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Vitamin D is made when the skin comes into contact with sunshine; however, we can also get vitamin…

Last year’s lockdown during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic erased cancer surgery from many hospitals’ calendars as they diverted resources…

Inequities in health care are pervasive, from access to quality of care, and a new study finds that common opioids such as…

DAWSON, Ga. — In every corner of Latasha Taylor’s home are plants she knows nothing about. After years spent shirking her mother’s…

Expectant mothers tend to spend time fine-tuning their baby registries and decorating their nurseries. I did some of that, but also spent…

At a time when medical researchers are under pressure to increase diversity in clinical trials, a Johns Hopkins study is sparking outrage…

In what some are calling a “persistent failure” of medical schools to improve diversity, a comprehensive new analysis going back 40 years…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Police violence against Black Americans is shamefully common in the United States and devastates communities. For incidents that…

It’s an American crisis that was long ignored at the government’s highest levels: Black women in the U.S. are roughly three times…