Akilah Johnson

Americans can now expect to live as long as they did in 1996, according to the provisional data released by the National Center for Health Statistics.

Black, Native American and rural women disproportionately bear the burden of maternal mortality.

Long-festering concerns about racial disparities in gynecologic and obstetric services are set against the backdrop of an imminent Supreme Court ruling.

Black adults were four times as likely to be hospitalized compared with White adults during the height of the omicron surge.

From 2011 to 2019, the number of Black Americans without health insurance who were younger than 65 dropped from 7.1 million people to 4.4 million.

The pandemic is straining the nation’s already stretched health-care system, but there are differences in the suffering.

A racial divide persists in the nation’s vaccination campaign, with federal figures showing counties with higher percentages of Black residents having some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed adult vaccination rates by age through May 22, finding 80 percent of adults older than 65 had been immunized compared with just 38.3 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds.

Immigrants have been turned away from pharmacies and other places after being asked for driver’s licenses, Social Security numbers or health insurance cards — documentation required by neither states nor the federal government but often requested at va…