Healthcare for Incarcerated Persons: How is the U.S. criminal justice system handling medical care?
By: Helena Zeleke (Photo Credit: PBS.org) Modern-day correctional facilities are not fit to maintain the health and wellness of...
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In The Waiting Room
- Nov 20, 2020
Intergenerational Trauma in the Black Community
(Photo Credit: Alamy.com) Although the 13th Amendment of the Constitution outlawed slavery, its effect on Black people still lingers...
In The Waiting Room
- Nov 13, 2020
Hepatitis B: The Silent Killer of the Vietnamese American Community
By: Victoria N. Huynh (Photo Credit: Roche.com) In the United States, hepatitis B is estimated to affect approximately 4.3% of American...
In The Waiting Room
- Nov 6, 2020
The Milgram Obedience Study: Was it Really Unethical?
By: Fahad Salman (Photo Source: BrainPundit) The following article reflects my personal opinions regarding the Milgram Obedience Study...
In The Waiting Room
- Oct 29, 2020
Discrimination in Medical School
By Jenika Packiaraj (Photo Credit: Noah Berger) "We bring Black med students to these institutions, and they fill quotas, and they make...
In The Waiting Room
- Oct 1, 2020
Steeped in Controversy: Why The Market for Clear Skin Has Been Blemished by Biopiracy & Inequi(tea)
By: Nabihah Khan (Photo Credits: Oxpeckers.org and Cedar Vista Farming) Under azure skies, neat rows of viridian shrubs line the...
In The Waiting Room
- Sep 24, 2020
HIV Research in 2020 - An Interview with Dr. April Randhawa, Infectious Disease Biologist
India Stevenson interviews Dr. April Randhawa on her current research during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In The Waiting Room
- Sep 17, 2020
The Troubling Conspiracies Underlying Pakistan's Polio Problem
Although Pakistan’s healthcare system is not currently ranked amongst the top in the world, its failures to eradicate the poliovirus do not
In The Waiting Room
- Sep 4, 2020
Perceptions of Gender, Sexual, and Racial Minorities in Medicine
This article discusses the perceptions of gender, sexual, and racial minorities from
both the perspective of the physician and from the pati
In The Waiting Room
- Aug 27, 2020
Poverty and Racial Inequity as Indicators of Cardiovascular Disease
Poverty has long been known to be the top indicator of disease prevalence globally. Individuals in lower-income environments often lack acce
In The Waiting Room
- Aug 21, 2020
The Origins of Gynecology & Medical Racism
By: India Ciánna Stevenson A painting of Dr. James Marion Sims, by American artist Robert Thom from the 1950s. (Photo Credit: Today.com)...
In The Waiting Room
- Aug 13, 2020
The Tuskegee Experiment: Mistrust in the U.S. Healthcare System
By: Jenika Packiaraj (Photo Credit: National Archives, Atlanta, GA) In 1932, the U.S. Public Health Services, in collaboration with...
In The Waiting Room
- Aug 7, 2020
Implicit Racial Bias in the Diagnosis & Treatment of Black Patients with COVID-19
By: Helena Zeleke (Retrieved from CNN (Originally from Atlanta-Journal Constitution/AP); Taken by Curtis Compton) The Problem Reginald...
In The Waiting Room
- Jul 31, 2020
Biological Weathering and Poor Health Outcomes: The Black Community
By: Emily Chen (Retrieved from Unsplash; Taken by Ricardo Fontes Mendes) Stress has been seen as a beneficial mechanism that enables us...
In The Waiting Room
- Jul 24, 2020
How To Help Address Rural Health Disparities
By: Zakwan Khan and Nabihah Khan (Photo Credit: Unsplash) Despite comprising nearly one-fifth of the United States population, rural...
In The Waiting Room
- Jul 24, 2020
Why Your Farm Could Kill You
By: Zakwan Khan (Photo Credit: Unsplash) While a wonderful conspiracy idea, please do not misconstrue this title as a bleak prediction...
In The Waiting Room
- Jul 15, 2020
How to Honor Henrietta Lacks and Bring Justice to Other Families Exploited by Unethical Medicine
(Photo Credit: The Henrietta Lacks Foundation) Henrietta Lacks was a Baltimore resident whose cancer cells were harvested from her...
In The Waiting Room
- Jul 15, 2020
How a Family was Robbed of Their Mother and Millions: The History of HeLa Cells
By: Vaidehi Kaushal (Photo Credit: history.com) HeLa cells are the backbone of modern medicine, being cited in over 110,000 scientific...
In The Waiting Room
- Jul 12, 2020
Resources to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities
(Photo Credit: Unsplash) If you are a public health professional, you can… Communicate often about the realities of COVID-19 to racial...
In The Waiting Room
- Jul 12, 2020
The Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on African Americans and Minority Communities
By: Nabihah Khan (Photo Credit: Unsplash) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported in April that while 33% of...
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