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California has launched the 988 mental health crisis hotline joining the effort to provide a simple, easy to remember, 3-digit number accessible...
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COLUMBIA, Mo. – While African Americans have disproportionately higher COVID-19 infection and mortality rates compared to white individuals, they also have...
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The pandemic has thrown into brutal relief the extent to which the U.S. health care system produces worse outcomes for patients of color. And yet there has...
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NEW YORK – New York Attorney General James today released written testimony submitted to the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) in the public hearing on the...
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July 6, 2022 – City officials today ‘broke ground’ on the new NYC Public Health Laboratory, which will be located adjacent to the Harlem Hospital complex on 137th...
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Racial and ethnic minorities diagnosed with advanced liver cancer have a lower chance of receiving immunotherapy, the most effective treatment for patients with the...
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At a virtual conference on Optimal Black Health Care during COVID, held on Saturday May 28, 2022 by The Committee to Eliminate Media Offensive to African People (CEMOTAP),...
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The tobacco industry damages both the environment and human health, and needs to be more accountable for the destruction it causes, declared the World Health Organization...
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NEW YORK — Following a leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, the New York Civil Liberties Union, Girls for Gender Equity, Latina...
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Over the past few years, the violent experiences of the African American man showcased in the media, harken back to the days of Jim Crow in the USA....
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On February 4, 2021, the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy found dangerous amounts of heavy metal concentrations, namely arsenic, lead, cadmium,...
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This year marks the fifth anniversary of the Black Maternal Health Week Campaign. In 2018, Congresswoman Alma Adams introduced...
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(Black PR Wire) CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Inequality, systemic bias, high risk of complications and death. These are the realities...
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WASHINGTON — People who live in communities with higher levels of racial prejudice have worse health outcomes, including more heart disease and mental...
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New York, NY (March 8, 2022)—Black patients and their families experience worse pain management, ineffective communication from providers, and an outsized burden on...
Milton, are you denying or finding it insignificant that the TPLF attacked a federal army base...
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