A similar scenario has played out in hundreds of rural communities across the United States, where hospitals have faced closure over the past 40 years.
Exercise is key for Parkinson’s relief. But bias, underdiagnosis hold Black patients back.
The suicide rate among Montana’s Native American youth is more than five times the statewide rate for the same age group, according to the Montana Budget and Policy Center.
Women and minorities bear the brunt of medical misdiagnosis
In a study published Jan. 8 in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers found that nearly 1 in 4 hospital patients who died or were transferred to intensive care had experienced a diagnostic error.
These patients had to lobby for correct diabetes diagnoses. Was their race a reason?
Without the correct diagnosis — which can be confirmed through blood tests — patients described being denied the medicines, technology, and tests to properly treat their diabetes.
Being Black and pregnant in the Deep South can be a dangerous combination
The future of the Abundant Birth Project is clouded by a lawsuit alleging that the program, the first of its kind in the nation, illegally discriminates by giving the stipend only to people of a specific race.
