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What Does It Say About Your Neighborhood If the Supermarket Isn’t So Super?

This story is authored by By Chaseedaw Giles and appeared on KHN News. It appeared originally in The Boston Globe and is republished with permission. Though...

Climate Change Raises the Danger of Violence Toward Women

No one needs to be told that tempers flare with rising temperatures or that climate change is having a major effect on women and girls in terms of violence, and research is showing it.

Theranos’ Biggest Crime is Casting Doubt on Consumer Diagnostics

One casualty of the Theranos scandal is that the idea of convenient, more accessible, diagnostic blood tests. We need great, consumer-focused, diagnostic care that lead to definitive answers around patients’ risk of disease and the ability to stay on top of chronic conditions.

Health Care and Its Deadly Biases Toward Women 

In 2020 in the U.S., the maternal mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black women was 55.3 deaths per 100,000 live births, 2.9 times the rate for non-Hispanic White women.