Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. George Floyd. We speak their names out when they no longer can. As a medical student, I have learned and recognized the many prejudices underlying our healthcare system against persons of color. Racism runs rampant in hos…
In the world of pediatrics, my colleagues and I remain vigilant about the threat of coronavirus to children. Every week, we learn more information about new presentations of COVID-19, such as novel inflammatory syndromes. Still, I am hopeful that with …
Humana’s Partners in Primary Care unit will open 20 new senior-focused primary care centers over the next year in two new markets plus a major expansion in Houston.
Why are some nursing homes more likely to have COVID-19 outbreaks? location and race of its residents.
Dr. Barry Bloom, who has fought infectious diseases around the world, discusses the impacts – both direct and indirect – that the Covid-19 pandemic will have on children around the world if timely interventions aren’t made.
I am not a black mother. I am white. I am a mother. I am also a pediatrician. Every day I work with mothers and their babies—black, brown, and white, as a newborn hospitalist on a busy, urban maternity unit. I know firsthand that the postpartum period …
A proposal by Democrat Joe Biden to allow Americans between the ages of 60 and 64 the option of buying into Medicare is gaining more attention as more people lose employer-sponsored health coverage in the era of the coronavirus strain Covid-19.
Over the past two months, health professionals and community advocates have brought to the fore of national attention what has been the lived experience of many within black and brown communities for ages — racism kills. The substrate of structural rac…
More and more evidence suggests that the Covid-19 coronavirus can spread via aerosols, which is changing the strategies on how to deal with the virus.
Dr. Joshua Liao explains that under the pressure of time and uncertainty, people rarely act purely based on logic. Instead, humans tend to make choices in these situations using a set of mental shortcuts
