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by Michelle Chen on April 2 2009, 6:54AM
Immigrants arrive prepared to make sacrifices in order to settle in this country. But amid the many economic, cultural and bureaucratic hurdles they must negotiate, they probably didn’t anticipate women’s reproductive health rights were part of the bargain. But…
Topics: Health, Immigration
The face of health inequity in Mississippi
by Michelle Chen on March 27 2009, 6:54AM
Imagine being sick and out of work, with a couple of miles and no car standing between you and the nearest public benefits office. You need medical care, but would you travel all that way to prove to the…
Topics: Health
by Michelle Chen on March 24 2009, 2:10PM
A federal court decision yesterday ordering the Food and Drug Administration to revisit a longstanding age restriction on “Plan B” emergency contraception could unblock a crucial birth-control option for underserved youth. The court found that the FDA’s 2006 decision…
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A Step Closer To Universal Health Care?
by Flávio Casoy on March 24 2009, 12:00PM
Op-ed: A medical student shares his top three questions on health care reform.
Topics: Health
Soldiers of color and the weight of war
by Michelle Chen on March 20 2009, 5:27PM
The Americans putting their lives on the line in combat are dying by their own hands at an alarming rate. The Army recently reported 133 confirmed suicides last year; 18 soldiers killed themselves in February alone. The public knows…
Topics: Health
by Michelle Chen on March 18 2009, 11:50AM
In the wake of alarming reports about the scourge of HIV/AIDS in the Black community and misconceptions on sexual health abroad, the question of how and when to teach youth about sex has gained new urgency. Congress now has…
Topics: Health
The Pope’s Condom Condemnation
by Terry Keleher on March 18 2009, 6:00AM
photo credit: AP It’s one thing for Pope Benedict XVI to have a religious and moral position against condoms. But it’s a whole other thing to assert, as he did yesterday, that the distribution of condoms to prevent the…
Topics: Health
by Michelle Chen on March 17 2009, 3:00PM
New reports from human rights groups issue a grim prognosis for the health of detained immigrants. Focusing on inadequacies in medical care for female detainees, Human Rights Watch documented abuses ranging from “delays in medical treatment and testing in…
Topics: Health, Immigration
Reproductive health in lockdown
by Michelle Chen on March 12 2009, 6:08PM
For many women behind bars, barriers to reproductive health follow them from their communities to their prison cells. A study published in the current issue of Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health found that an incarcerated woman’s ability to…
Topics: Criminal Justice, Health
by Michelle Chen on March 12 2009, 2:15PM
Florida’s housing market may be imploding and residents may be losing houses at unprecedented rates, but lawmakers have apparently taken pains to give people with mental illness a place to call home… in the state’s prisons. Florida is on…
Topics: Health
Branching out in the stem cell debate
by Michelle Chen on March 11 2009, 1:45PM
President Obama’s executive order to open up federal funding for stem cell research has been widely hailed as a watershed for scientific integrity and medical advancement. Yet, while much of the popular focus has been on using embryonic stem…
Topics: Health
by Elizabeth Barajas-Roman on March 10 2009, 12:00PM
The MacArthur Genius is training healthcare providers to work with African women who’ve undergone female genital circumcision.
Topics: Health
by Michelle Chen on March 4 2009, 3:33PM
The recent discussions on race and health in the activist community coincide with a festering crisis in one part of the immigrant population: the treatment of detainees—marginalized by law from the mainstream health system—is a marker of the depth of…
Topics: Health, Immigration
Community Health on the Frontlines
by Michelle Chen on March 3 2009, 4:32PM
There’s a lot of hooplah these days about Obama’s political maneuvers on health policy, but health care reform is getting a more subtle, but no less systemic boost in the new stimulus package. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act…
Topics: Health
Afraid of What Tomorrow Brings
by Guest Columnist on March 3 2009, 6:00AM
This entry is brought to you by Washington CAN, guest on today’s Race & Health Conference Call, part of the bi-weekly Compact for Racial Justice Phone Forum. Written by: Amal Abdulrahman For eight years, I was the interpreter for my…
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Don’t Forget to RSVP to this week’s Race & Health Call
by Jorge Rivas on February 27 2009, 5:00PM
Join the conference call forum for an exchange on moving a proactive health equity agenda that benefits all of us. March 3rd "Race and Health" (call at 1PM Pacific, 4PM Eastern) An affordable and accessible healthcare system is not enough….
Topics: Health
by Michelle Chen on February 27 2009, 11:51AM
Yesterday on Capitol Hill, Dana Lee Jetty, a North Dakota high school student and member of the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation, shared the story of her last encounter with her sister: I walked towards the back of the house and…
Topics: Health
The picture of health, in color
by Michelle Chen on February 13 2009, 3:30PM
Two new studies examine how race colors the health care system, revealing new angles on environmental and social influences on the health of Blacks and Latinos. A study by National Cancer Institute researchers found that crippling health care costs…
Topics: Health
Understanding AIDS in the Black community
by Michelle Chen on February 6 2009, 1:28PM
A new report on AIDS in Black America, published this week by the Black AIDS Institute, reveals how HIV and AIDS have impacted the Black community and how racial health disparities are fueling an epidemic. Among the findings, new statistics…
Topics: Health
by Michelle Chen on January 29 2009, 12:41PM
Sometimes cold statistics can make disturbing truths more real. A new report, “A Portrait of Mississippi,” underscores racial disparities that, while not surprising, have seldom been so intricately documented until now.’ The study is an offshoot of Measure of America…
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