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, ...

An emergency room nurse tends to a patient at Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital in Texas. States, counties and nonprofits are striving to continue their work to close racial health disparity ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The president’s recent push to send federal health care dollars directly to individuals, rather than insurers, reflects a ...

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.

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 ...

The Institute of Medicine of Chicago (IOMC) has announced the receipt of initial funding to pursue its new initiative designed to help eliminate health disparities in Chicago's underserved communities ...