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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Contemporary Consequences of Health Inequities and Medical Disparities
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In The Waiting Room
- Nov 20, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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In The Waiting Room
- Nov 13, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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In The Waiting Room
- Oct 29, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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In The Waiting Room
- Sep 17, 2020
- 4 min
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
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In The Waiting Room
- Sep 4, 2020
- 7 min
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
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In The Waiting Room
- Aug 27, 2020
- 4 min
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
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In The Waiting Room
- Aug 21, 2020
- 4 min
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)...
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In The Waiting Room
- Aug 13, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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In The Waiting Room
- Aug 7, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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In The Waiting Room
- Jul 31, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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In The Waiting Room
- Jul 12, 2020
- 4 min
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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