It was during a road trip that Steven Robinson stopped to visit his former college roommate and noticed something was wrong. Richard Koonce had lost weight – evidence of the dwindling appetite and low energy that the 62-year-old had been experiencing for the past two years. Koonce revealed that he had been struggling with primary […]
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Meet the Black Women Behind the New Digital Startups Aimed at Reducing Health Disparities
The trip from Sacramento to Oakland, California, is an hour and a half on a good day. Maybe three when traffic jams the highway. But it’s a trip some of Dr. Joy Cooper’s patients were willing to take to see a provider who looked like them. “Otherwise,” she said, “they would not see a Black […]
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A Nationwide Ban on Menthol Cigarettes Could Be Coming, and It’s Dividing Racial Justice Advocates
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to introduce a nationwide ban on the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars this spring, a move intended to reduce racial health disparities in tobacco-related diseases and death. But the proposal has divided racial justice advocates who debate whether the health benefits would come at the […]
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Why Race Matters So Much to Your Health
Black Americans face disproportionately high rates of poor health outcomes across most illnesses: diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, asthma – to name a few. For most cancers, Black Americans’ death rates are higher than other racial groups and their survival rates are shorter. Black men have the highest rates of prostate and colorectal cancer compared to […]