I’ve experienced the reality of health disparities firsthand. Growing up in a low-income, predominantly Black neighborhood in Boston during the 60s and 70s, my family didn’t have access, or, frankly, ...

At any given time almost 90,000 people in the United States are waiting for a kidney transplant, and every day 11 die waiting for one. Of these people, 35% are Black patients receiving dialysis for ...

No one can deny that health inequities are a global issue. The United States, despite decades of progress, has one of the highest rates of health disparities in the world. Our health care system is ...

Dr. Fola May studies diseases of the digestive tract, and runs a lab at the University of California Los Angeles looking for ways to detect disease earlier in various groups. For that work, she says ...

Xin Hu, PhD, MSPH, hypothesizes that these telemental health disparities could be driven by language barriers, historical mistrust, and systemic challenges. Despite the 12-fold relative increase in ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech ...

This week, Montgomery County’s Commission on Health is sponsoring a community forum on health care resources and services. Brian Smedley, research director and co-founder of the D.C.-based Opportunity ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A new University of Hawaii study has revealed a striking 19-year life expectancy gap among Hawaii’s major ethnic groups.

Although the United States has made significant progress increasing overall rates of breastfeeding in recent years, racial and ethnic disparities persist in who breastfeeds and for how long. For ...