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    Dr. Kristamarie Collman, a family physician in Orlando, has been dispelling vaccine myths through social media. She's among a growing cohort of Black doctors trying to reach vaccine-hesitant members of their communities.
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    'You Can't Treat If You Can't Empathize': Black Doctors Tackle Vaccine Hesitancy

    Jan 19, 2021
    Black vaccine hesitancy goes back to history of distrust of medicine, say doctors and researchers. To help, it's important to empower people with knowledge to make their own choices.
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    Some in the medical community now question the use of race in kidney care. They argue it could exacerbate health disparities.
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    Is It Time For A Race Reckoning In Kidney Medicine?

    Dec 28, 2020
    A movement sparked by medical students is pushing to eliminate the use of race to estimate kidney function, saying it reinforces racist thinking. Some argue the change could cause unintended harm.
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    African Americans and other underrepresented minorities make up only about 5% of the people in genetics research studies.
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    Neuroscience Has A Whiteness Problem. This Research Project Aims To Fix It

    Sep 24, 2020
    People of African ancestry have been excluded from many studies of brain disorders. In Baltimore, scientists, doctors and community leaders are working to make neuroscience research more diverse.
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    How The Pandemic Is Widening The Racial Wealth Gap

    Sep 18, 2020
    The coronavirus has affected most Americans, but NPR's latest poll shows Black, Latino and Native American households are hardest hit by the financial impact of the crisis.
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    Pandemic Financially Imperils Nearly Half Of American Households, Poll Finds

    Sep 10, 2020
    There are dividing lines when it comes to how families are weathering the pandemic: Those living in big cities, those making less than $100,000 a year, and Latino and Black families are faring worst.
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    The Jernigan-Noesi family, the Roper Nedd family, and the Ford family talk about the conversations they're having with their kids about racism, social justice, and having hope for the future.
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    'Change Can Happen': Black Families On Racism, Hope And Parenting

    Jul 19, 2020
    In wake of George Floyd's killing and the Black Lives Matter protests, conversations about race in America have a new urgency. Here's how Black parents are having 'the talk' with their children today.
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    America Reckons With Racial Injustice
    In 2018, GirlTrek members gathered for a weekend retreat in Rocky Mountain National Park as part of their #StressProtest.
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    GirlTrek Uses Black Women's History To Encourage Walking As A Healing Tradition

    Jun 16, 2020
    As part of a 21-day series of walking meditations to honor black women freedom fighters, GirlTrek founders are tackling issues such as the coronavirus pandemic, voter suppression and police violence.
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    What Do Coronavirus Racial Disparities Look Like State By State?

    May 30, 2020
    NPR's analysis shows just how stark the impact has been on African-Americans and Latinos. Experts say the pandemic will go on — for everyone — unless we direct resources where they're most needed.
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    A hospital patient in Stamford, Conn., who has COVID-19 symptoms gets his temperature checked. Severe infections with the novel coronavirus have been unusually high among African Americans and Latinos in many hospitals.
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    Opinion: U.S. Must Avoid Building Racial Bias Into COVID-19 Emergency Guidance

    Apr 21, 2020
    States are releasing "Crisis Standards of Care" guidelines, aimed at helping desperate hospitals discern how to allocate scarce resources. But the guidance doesn't factor in health care inequalities.
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    from local story: "Sickle cell pain has a mind of its own," said Anesha Barnes, who's had the disease since she was a baby. She says the longer she stays in a pain crisis, the harder it is to break out of it.
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    Effort To Control Opioids In An ER Leaves Some Sickle Cell Patients In Pain

    Jan 02, 2020
    People with sickle cell disease aren't fueling the opioid crisis, research shows. Yet some ER doctors still treat patients seeking relief for agonizing sickle cell crises as potential addicts.
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    Scientists Reach Out To Minority Communities To Diversify Alzheimer's Studies

    Dec 17, 2019
    Black and Hispanic people often don't volunteer for studies of Alzheimer's disease, despite their risks for developing it. Researchers are working to make studies more inclusive, but it's not easy.
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    Hair dyes and straighteners contain chemicals that are being studied for their health effects.
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    Hair Dyes And Straighteners Linked To Higher Cancer Risk, Especially For Black Women

    Dec 04, 2019
    Many women get their hair dyed or straightened regularly with products that contain thousands of chemicals. Researchers are teasing out whether our hair habits could be raising our breast cancer risk.
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    Mahmee CEO Melissa Hanna (right) and her mother Linda Hanna (left) co-founded the company in 2014. Linda's more than 40 years of clinical experience as a registered nurse and certified lactation consultant helped them understand the need, they say.
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    This App Aims To Save New Moms' Lives

    Aug 18, 2019
    The startup Mahmee hopes to help OB-GYNs, pediatricians and other health providers closely monitor a mother and baby's health so that any red flags can be assessed before they become life-threatening.
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    Altovise Ewing, who has a doctorate in human genetics and counseling, now works as a genetic counselor and researcher at 23andMe, one of the largest direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies, based in Mountain View, Calif.
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    Genetic Counselors Of Color Tackle Racial, Ethnic Disparities In Health Care

    Jul 27, 2019
    They work with patients to decide when genetic testing is appropriate, interpret test results and counsel families on the ways hereditary diseases might impact them. A trusting relationship is key.
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    Dramatic decreases in deaths from lung cancer among African-Americans were particularly notable, according to the American Cancer Society.
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    Racial Disparities In Cancer Incidence And Survival Rates Are Narrowing

    Feb 14, 2019
    African-Americans still have the highest death rate and the lowest survival rate of any U.S. racial or ethnic group for most cancers. But the "cancer gap" between blacks and whites is shrinking.
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    A colorized image of a brain cell from an Alzheimer's patient shows a neurofibrillary tangle (red) inside the cytoplasm (yellow) of the cell. The tangles consist primarily of a protein called tau.
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    Alzheimer's Disease May Develop Differently In African-Americans, Study Suggests

    Jan 07, 2019
    Black Americans are more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer's. Yet black people studied appeared to have lower levels of a toxic substance associated with the disease, researchers say.
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    Black men are twice as likely as whites to die from prostate cancer, one of the deadliest cancers that affect males.
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    Distrust Of Health Care System May Keep Black Men Away From Prostate Cancer Research

    Oct 17, 2018
    Black men are hit hardest by prostate cancer, but they are underrepresented in research. Researchers held focus groups in three states to understand why.
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    The Salt
    Fried chicken and mac and cheese: A study suggests Southern cuisine may be at the center of a tangled web of reasons why blacks in America are more prone to hypertension than whites.
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    Southern Diet Blamed For High Rates Of Hypertension Among Blacks

    Oct 02, 2018
    Fried chicken, mac and cheese and sweet drinks: A study suggests Southern cuisine may be at the center of a tangled web of reasons why blacks in America are more prone to hypertension than whites.
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    Researchers are trying to understand why black and Latino children are more likely to die of certain cancers.
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    Why Are Black And Latino Kids More Likely To Die Of Certain Cancers?

    Aug 20, 2018
    There's a big survival gap between white and minority children when it comes to some childhood cancers. It turns out growing up in poverty explains a lot of the difference.
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