Tag Archives: Racism

Lead Poisoning, Systemic Racism Are Harming Black Kids’ Test Scores

By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Aug. 16, 2022 (HealthDay News) — It’s well-known that publicity to guide can hurt younger youngsters’s mind improvement. Now a brand new examine means that racial segregation could also be compounding the detrimental results of lead on Black youngsters. The examine, of near 26,000 schoolchildren, discovered that Black youngsters […]

Taking Racism out of the Kidney Disease Equation

The first signal one thing was unsuitable with Curtis Warfield got here in 2005, when a lab take a look at discovered protein in his urine throughout a routine checkup. In 2012, Warfield was recognized with stage 3 kidney illness. Two years later, he began dialysis. “When you get diagnosed, you’re sitting there kind of […]

New HIV and AIDS Strategy Calls Racism a Public Health Crisis

YouTube: “President Biden Delivers Remarks on World AIDS Day,” The White House. HIV.gov: “National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States 2022-2025,” “What Is Ending the HIV Epidemic in the United States?” Gregorio Millett, vp, American Foundation for AIDS Research. amfAR: “Ending the HIV Epidemic Database.” The Lancet, Public Health: “Homelessness, unstable housing, and risk of […]