Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An emergency room nurse tends to a patient. An emergency room nurse tends to a patient at Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s overhaul of the Department of Health and Human Services involves deep cuts to several divisions that help protect and improve the health of minority and underserved populations ...

Black Americans have been systematically excluded from wealth accumulation through policies and practices that increase debt burdens and limit asset building, leading to chronic financial ...

Racial and ethnic minorities face significant disparities in mental health service utilization and quality of care, often due to cultural misunderstandings and lack of access to appropriate providers.

The Health Disparities Track is a two-year curriculum created to foster the ability to recognize and address social factors that can be barriers to health. PGY-2 and PGY-3 residents learn about health ...

Five leading causes of death disproportionately kill rural Americans at higher rates than their urban counterparts, according to new research from the CDC. After analyzing mortality data for both ...

Actual disparities in healthcare service delivery are also found to be significant predictors of racial health disparities. Indeed, the general public has come to understand the notion of racial ...

Anant Madabhushi, the Donnell Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering, wrote a piece for Crain’s Cleveland Business about how artificial intelligence can serve to help understand and address ...

An accreditation committee sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges and the American Medical Association is dropping its diversity standard, Inside Higher Ed reported Tuesday. That is ...

While historical health disparities, like those today, were deeply rooted in socioeconomic inequalities such as poverty, industrialisation, and war, modern disparities are driven by these persistent ...