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Healthcare Chart Notes Set the Stage for Dangerously Skewed Negative Patient Profiles

Careless use of biased language in Healthcare Chart notes gives life to skewed beliefs about patients and the state of their mental and physical health.

India Questions New Dehli’s Changes to National Vaccination Program

India has just made radical changes to its national vaccine strategy that will lead to widespread vaccine discrimination and inequality, price gouging and a bidding war between states

Monkeypox: What You Need to Know

Monkeypox is a virus endemic in parts of West and Central Africa. The condition is a less virulent form of smallpox.

Hair Straightening and Cancer — What Oncologists Want You to Know

THE HEADLINES ARE FRIGHTENING: “Hair-straightening chemical products linked to increased uterine cancer risk in a new study,” blares CNN. NBC News offers this: “Chemical hair straighteners linked to [a] higher risk of uterine cancer for Black women, study shows.”