By Elisabeth Rosenthal and Kaiser Health News Here’s one big takeaway from our country’s disastrous 2020 covid response: For 20 years, we’ve lavished attention and money on fighting human terrorism and …
By Harris Meyer Nearly all women who deliver babies through cesarean section at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City receive injections of the blood thinner heparin for weeks …
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia African Americans comprise about half of the more than 100,000 inmates in Florida prisons and jails. Black males ages 30 …
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia From the hymns of slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries to hip-hop artists’ powerful message in the 20th and …
By Laura Ungar Alexandra Sierra carried boxes of food to her kitchen counter, where her 7-year-old daughter, Rachell, stirred a pitcher of lemonade. “Oh, my God, it smells so good!” Sierra, …
By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez Orange. Eucalyptus. Lavender. Peppermint. Doctors at Children’s Hospital Colorado and Seattle Children’s Hospital will use scents like these to treat children who lost their sense of …
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia The child population in America is the most diverse in history, but children remain the poorest age group in the …
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Destination: The World. Until medical science gets a real stranglehold on the coronavirus, we invite you to explore from the …
By Laura Ungar This spring, high school senior Nathan Kassis will play baseball in the shadow of covid-19 — wearing a neck gaiter under his catcher’s mask, sitting 6 feet from …
By April Dembosky, KQED For months, journalists, politicians and health officials — including New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Dr. Anthony Fauci — have invoked the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study to explain why Black Americans …