#health equity

Are African Americans Being “Whitewashed” Out of the U.S. Opioid Crisis?

Tight living spaces, lack of protective gear and preexisting health conditions may account for the higher death rate in prisons.

Anthony Fauci, MD, highlighted how socioeconomic status contributes to racial disparities during the coronavirus pandemic.

Gathering in large groups raises the risk of coronavirus transmission, but there are things you can do to protect yourself.

Medical students graded their institutions. Despite improvements, no school earned an A.

Building a diverse biomedical sciences workforce is a critical step in reducing the burden of cancer for an increasingly diverse America.

Highlights from HIV and hepatitis C research presented at the 2018 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston

An emergency order in a case debating the current transplant system threatens to upend decades of organ allocation policies.

Supporters say the new policy will address long-standing geographic disparities in the supply of donated organs across the country.

At a major transplant center in Indiana, despite similar levels of liver disease severity, Blacks had a lower transplant rate than whites.

A recent NYT feature delves deep into the racial politics of NYC’s battle against heroin, overdose deaths and hepatitis C.

Disparities in access to health care make Native Americans, Aboriginals and others up to 10 times more likely to be infected.

Rates have doubled in the United States since the mid-1980s amid major racial and regional disparities.

Since 1991, cancer mortality in the United States has decreased by 25 percent, but experts say progress has been uneven.

Amid opposition, the national organization scraps a proposal meant to ease regional disparities in transplant waiting lists.

United Network for Organ Sharing hopes to ease regional disparities in the way donated livers are doled out to sick patients across the U.S.

The Deputy Assistant Secretary for Office of Minority Health at HHS on solving racial/ethnic disparities in hepatitis prevention and care.