World Bank senior health specialist Dr. Wameq Raza and Georgetown University assistant professor Dr. Shabab Wahid have been researching the linkages between climate change and mental health in underprivileged and vulnerable communities, finding that extreme heat exposure is associated with a 68% direct effect on the risk of suicide.
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South Dallas Trusts ‘Not My Son’: How Tramonica Brown’s Nonprofit Is Bringing New Life and Longevity To Our Streets
Not My Son, a South Dallas nonprofit led by founder Tramonica Brown, is working to engage the community in social justice, civic engagement, and financial literacy through outreach, activism, and volunteerism.
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Stylists Are Not Therapists: Why Mental Health Support in Beauty Matters
Beauty professionals are often considered confidants and listeners, but rarely receive the same care they extend to others, leading to a high rate of anxiety and depression.
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Experts Warn Court Case Could End Life-Saving Preventive Care
A Supreme Court case could lead to the end of a central component of the Affordable Care Act, potentially causing millions of Americans to avoid ACA-mandated free screening and services for preventable diseases, which could increase health disparities in Black communities.
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Crisis to Care: 5 Charts on Black Maternal Health Progress
Black women in the US are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women, but improvements in maternal health care, such as the expansion of certified midwives, doulas, and prenatal care, are being made to improve the quality of care Black birthing people receive.
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Measles Outbreak in Texas Exposes Flaws in Public Health Response Amid Misinformation
Texas’ recent measles outbreak has exposed flaws in its public health response, allowing anti-vaccine groups to spread misinformation and contribute to the deaths of two children.
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Advocates Blast Trump’s Anti-Environmental Justice Agenda
Dr. Benjamin Chavis, a civil and human rights activist, is speaking out against the Trump administration’s moves to gut federal environmental justice programs, which he believes will cause greater harm and suffering to communities of color.
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80M at Risk as Trump HHS Axes Key Poverty Measure Office
The Department of Health and Human Services has fired the entire office that sets federal poverty guidelines, which determine whether tens of millions of Americans are eligible for health programs such as Medicaid, food assistance, child care, and other services.
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Decades of Data Show Deadly Gap for Black Children
A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that Black children in the US have consistently faced significantly higher mortality rates than their white peers, with no improvement in relative disparities since the 1950s, resulting in over half a million avoidable infant deaths and nearly 690,000 childhood deaths among Black Americans between 1950 and 2019.
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Protecting Future Generations: The Essential Role of HPV Vaccination in Cancer Prevention
The HPV vaccine is an effective means of preventing cancers associated with the virus, and New York City is working to address issues such as vaccine hesitancy, limited access to healthcare, and a deep-rooted mistrust of the medical system to make the vaccine more accessible to all.