/tags/african-american-health African American Health en-US Copyright Thu, 08 Sep 2022 10:00:00 GMT /wunc-youth-reporting-institute/2022-09-08/combating-mistreatment-black-women-healthcare-doula-pregnancy-gynecology For this summer’s ¹ÏÉñapp Youth Reporting Institute, participants were tasked with telling stories from their communities. Reporter Parys Smith spoke with medical professionals and the women in her family about the experience of Black women in the healthcare system. Thu, 08 Sep 2022 10:00:00 GMT /wunc-youth-reporting-institute/2022-09-08/combating-mistreatment-black-women-healthcare-doula-pregnancy-gynecology Parys Smith /health/2020-09-03/can-pharmaceutical-testing-ever-be-ethical-under-capitalism Before a pharmaceutical treatment can hit the pharmacy shelves, manufacturers must prove the product’s safety through a series of trials. Phase I trials… Thu, 03 Sep 2020 20:13:48 GMT /health/2020-09-03/can-pharmaceutical-testing-ever-be-ethical-under-capitalism Grant Holub-Moorman, Anita Rao /race-demographics/2020-05-24/new-poll-shows-impact-of-coronavirus-on-african-americans A national poll, in collaboration with the NAACP and the Yale School of Medicine, shows African Americans are a lot more trusting of local elected… Sun, 24 May 2020 21:27:00 GMT /race-demographics/2020-05-24/new-poll-shows-impact-of-coronavirus-on-african-americans Leoneda Inge /show/the-state-of-things/2020-04-22/in-black-communities-fight-against-covid-19-the-real-pre-existing-condition-is-poverty In North Carolina and across the nation, black communities are contracting and dying from COVID-19 at disproportionately high rates. But there has been… Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:17:03 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2020-04-22/in-black-communities-fight-against-covid-19-the-real-pre-existing-condition-is-poverty Stacia Brown, Frank Stasio /health/2020-04-22/in-black-communities-fight-against-covid-19-the-real-pre-existing-condition-is-poverty In North Carolina and across the nation, black communities are contracting and dying from COVID-19 at disproportionately high rates. But there has been… Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:17:03 GMT /health/2020-04-22/in-black-communities-fight-against-covid-19-the-real-pre-existing-condition-is-poverty Stacia Brown, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2019-08-20/a-greensboro-nurse-fights-african-american-health-disparities When Stephanie Pickett was a nurse at Duke University Medical Center, more than 90% of the patients she saw with kidney failure were black. This shocking… Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:35:43 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2019-08-20/a-greensboro-nurse-fights-african-american-health-disparities Amanda Magnus, Frank Stasio /health/2019-08-20/a-greensboro-nurse-fights-african-american-health-disparities When Stephanie Pickett was a nurse at Duke University Medical Center, more than 90% of the patients she saw with kidney failure were black. This shocking… Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:35:43 GMT /health/2019-08-20/a-greensboro-nurse-fights-african-american-health-disparities Amanda Magnus, Frank Stasio /health/2019-04-01/sistas-aim-to-reduce-disparities-in-the-delivery-room Numerous studies on childbirth in the US present a grim fact -- racial disparities persist in the delivery room. Rates of maternal and infant mortality... Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:17:48 GMT /health/2019-04-01/sistas-aim-to-reduce-disparities-in-the-delivery-room Cass Herrington /show/the-state-of-things/2018-10-25/black-women-and-breast-cancer-the-trouble-with-treatment Is the high cost of health care keeping black women from following up on breast cancer treatment? A new study in the Journal of the National Cancer… Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:57:53 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2018-10-25/black-women-and-breast-cancer-the-trouble-with-treatment Dana Terry, Frank Stasio /health/2018-10-25/black-women-and-breast-cancer-the-trouble-with-treatment Is the high cost of health care keeping black women from following up on breast cancer treatment? A new study in the Journal of the National Cancer… Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:57:53 GMT /health/2018-10-25/black-women-and-breast-cancer-the-trouble-with-treatment Dana Terry, Frank Stasio