Experts are pushing states to mandate training for medical professionals to combat “implicit bias,” and lawmakers in more states are heeding that call.
Two Advocate Health hospitals have been recognized for their efforts in supporting Black maternal health by U.S. News & World Report for Black Maternal Health Week 2024.
The American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women movement is focused on maternal health and is raising awareness during National Black Maternal Health Week.
Springfield officials joined together on Thursday for a special Black Maternal Health Week celebration.
For decades, federal-welfare programs like Medicaid have overpromised and underdelivered.
Baby, the blues are calling, a little later than expected
Parenting brand Frida launches its latest initiative, a website that shares uncensored, human tutorials for its popular products and skirts social media restrictions.
Trains carrying loads of coal bring with them higher rates of asthma, heart disease, hospitalization and death for residents living nearest the rail lines, according to a new study from the University of California, Davis.
The DWP provides the benefit to individuals with a disability severe enough to require someone else's assistance for care
The Open Up crisps, from Beavertown Brewery and suicide prevention charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), hope to inspire meaningful conversation.
ST. GEORGE — The Southwest Utah Public Health Department has been offering free testing for prediabetes throughout April and will do so until the end of the month. One-third of American adults have prediabetes and 80% of them don’t know it, according to a news release. Prediabetes happens when blood sugar levels are higher than […]
The American Heart Assn. calls them "game changers." Oprah Winfrey says they're "a gift." Science magazine anointed them the "2023 Breakthrough of the Year." Americans are most familiar with their brand names: Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound. They are the medications that have revolutionized weight loss and raised the possibility of reversing the country's obesity crisis. Obesity — like so many diseases — disproportionately affects people in racial and ethnic groups that have been...