According to the CDC, black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women.

It's Black Maternal Health Week. Here's everything you should know to protect yourself and those you love. Today is the first day of Black Maternal Health Week, which is designed to honor and ...

Though Phil Brooks’s invention wasn’t the hypodermic syringe, his work still fits into a broader legacy of innovators tackling medical hygiene—especially during times when Black inventors rarely got ...

Underscoring the massive scale of America’s medical debt problem, a New York-based nonprofit has struck a deal to pay off old medical bills for an estimated 20 million people. This story also ran on ...

Medical schools across America are witnessing a troubling decline in Black student enrollment, with numbers dropping by 11.6 percent for the 2024-2025 academic year. This significant decrease ...

The lack of Black student enrollment in medical schools puts a pause on developing a more diverse physician workforce to improve public health. A number of healthcare leaders and medical experts ...

Idaho Gov. Brad Little boasted the state’s laws on medical freedom but vetoed a bill that banned businesses and schools from requiring medical interventions. Darin Oswald doswald@idahostatesman ...

A Russian medical researcher at Harvard University is being detained at a Louisiana immigration facility after her visa was revoked last month over undeclared frog embryo samples found in her ...

The medical professional said his team “perform[ed] advanced life support CPR” at Costa Rica’s Arenas Del Mar Beachfront & Rainforest Resort for 30 minutes on March 21. However, he noted ...

The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable. By Gina Cherelus Need a word to emphasize ...

“These people have to go somewhere and we don’t want them going to organized crime in the black market for their medical conditions,” Keohokalole said. Hawaii’s 25-year-old medical ...

In addition to the lack of Black physicians, many doctors overall are leaving the medical field. A report from Definitive Healthcare said that 71,309 physicians left the workforce between 2021 and ...