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UI Alum, Public Health Director Discusses Ways to Address Health Disparities
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN (WCIA) ā UI students in the College of Applied Health Sciences had an opportunity to hear a public health services director speak about health disparities in COVID-19 treatments. Dr. Travis Gayles is the Medical Director and Chief of Public Health Services for Montgomery County, Maryland. He spoke with UI students Wednesday [ā¦]
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Fewer Black Men Are Enrolling in Community Colleges This Semester Due to COVID-19
Fewer Black men are enrolled in community college this semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic,Ā Fox 13Ā reported. Read More
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ACHA Issues New Guidance on Protecting Vulnerable Populations Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Along with careful and ambitious plans to reopen for the fall semester amid a pandemic have come pledges from campus leaders to keep all of their students safe. But new guidance from the American College Health Association (ACHA) urges college officials to also protect, support and engage those who are most vulnerable in the campus [ā¦]
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Striking Delays in Autism Dx Among African-American Kids
African-American families with concerns about their childrenās development have to surmount many obstacles before reaching an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis with providers, a study indicated. Among 584 Black children with ASD, the mean age of diagnosis was 5.4 years, more than 3 years after parents first reported concerns about childrenās development, reported John Constantino, [ā¦]
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Philly Should Declare Racism a Public Health Crisis ā And Then Do Something About it
Crisis is a term we often hear in conversations about things we perceive to be of grave danger to our lives or livelihood. When applied to public health, experts have loosely defined a crisis as an issue that affects large numbers of people, threatens those individualsā health over the long-term, and requires large-scale solutions to [ā¦]
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āAbysmal, but Fixable:ā Inside Biopharmaās Renewed Push to Up Racial and Gender Representation
The biggest āa-ha!ā moment during a recently held roundtable on advancing equality in biopharma may have come by way of the live polling. Only 20% of the 10 or so drugmakers and CROs attending the roundtable said their corporate plans around diversity and inclusion were specific and intentional. Another 44% said they didnāt know if [ā¦]
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The Lack of Black Doctors is Killing Black Babies, New Study Finds
The case forĀ greater diversity in medicineĀ canāt get much more stark than this. Black newborns are three times more likely than white newborns to die when cared for by white physicians, according to a new study tracking 1.8 million hospital childbirths over more than two decades. But when they are cared for by Black doctors, Black [ā¦]
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Healthcare Providers Push to Fix Racism in the Medical Industry as COVID-19 Devastates Communities of Color
Two pediatricians, two allergists, one dermatologist and three hospitals. Anna Akins, 32, sat in waiting rooms in LouisianaĀ for over nineĀ months trying to get her newborn sonās condition diagnosed while he spent his days coughing and wheezing with undiagnosedĀ allergies andĀ no answers. For Akins, it took hours of exhausting conversations with doctors. SheĀ said she was not taken [ā¦]
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Panel: Pandemic Has Exposed Long-Standing Health Inequities
While the coronavirus pandemic is frequently described as unprecedented, its disproportionate toll on communities of color has come as no surprise to scholars who have lived and studied health inequities in the United States. āFor those of us living in black and brown bodies ā¦ itās not unprecedented, itās business as usual, unfortunately,ā said Rachel [ā¦]
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Health Illiteracy Is Nothing New in America. But the Pandemic Magnifies How Troubling It Is.
A Michigan library had to ask patrons to stop microwaving books to kill the coronavirus after noticing returned books with scorched pages. The Cleveland Clinic issued a public warning about the danger of using vodka concoctions as a hand sanitizer when recipes started to circulate. Then came the surge of calls to poison control centers [ā¦]
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Minority Research Scientists Hunt for a COVID-19 Cure
Temporarily putting aside their ongoing research, scientists are addressing the impact of COVID-19 on communities of color and seeking solutions. The COVID-19 pandemic hit Black communities around the United States quickly and furiously. While all of the country has felt the devastation of this virus, communities with limited access to healthcare have been hit hardest. [ā¦]
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COVID-19 Pandemic Highlights Need to Diversify Healthcare Workforce
The pandemicās devastating impact on communities of color clarifies the need for diversity among healthcare workers and public health leaders. āWe live in a country where your wealth and your socioeconomic status is a big determinant for how healthy you are, how long you will live and whether you live with a higher burden of [ā¦]
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