Tag: health disparities
Lead exposure during childhood may influence adult personality, and not for...
Ted Schwaba, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
The Research Brief is a short take...
25-year-long study of Black women links frequent use of lye-based hair...
Kimberly Bertrand, Boston University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The...
Ending food insecurity in Native communities means restoring land rights, handing...
Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, Oklahoma State University
For Indigenous people in the U.S., food is considered a sacred gift....
Did racism kill Jackie Robinson?
Tamra Burns Loeb, University of California, Los Angeles; Alicia Morehead-Gee, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, and Derek Novacek, UCLA...
Vaccine guilt is good – as long it doesn’t stop you...
Elizabeth Lanphier, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Over 100 million Americans have now received at least one dose...
Women’s health is better when women have more control in their...
Siobhán Mattison, University of New Mexico; Adam Z. Reynolds, University of New Mexico, and Katherine Wander, Binghamton University, State University of New...
Distance learning makes it harder for kids to exercise, especially in...
Katelyn Esmonde, Johns Hopkins University and Keshia Pollack Porter, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
This fall hasn’t felt much like “back to school”...
Minority patients benefit from having minority doctors, but that’s a hard...
Ryan Huerto, University of Michigan and Edwin Lindo, University of Washington
In today’s America, minority patients still have markedly worse health outcomes than white patients....