NNPA NEWSWIRE — Data from Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City shows that more than 13 percent of African American men between the ages 45 and...
By Antonio Ray Harvey, Lila Brown and Joe W. Bowers Jr. | California Black Media California State University student workers announced on Oct. 4 that the...
By McKenzie Jackson California Black Media Five percent of the 225,231 Californians who lost their Medi-Cal coverage in June were African American. According to numbers from...
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire In a big blow to health insurance in the U.S., a federal judge has ruled that insurers no longer have...
By Eli Walsh Bay City News Foundation Gov. Gavin Newsom formally rescinded California’s COVID-19 state of emergency Tuesday, shifting the state’s strategy around the virus from...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Under President Biden’s leadership, our nation’s uninsured rate is at an all-time low, and Affordable Care Act enrollment is at an all-time high....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In an overview posted on Emory’s website, the university noted that “as an interdisciplinary graduate program, the African American Studies Ph.D. Program is...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In Los Angeles, CA, Bishop William J. Barber, II said “The same people that are blocking laws that uplift the poor are the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The U.S. Treasury Department said the change would allow 200,000 uninsured individuals to gain coverage while more than 1 million others would realize...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The question remains: Is the Mississippi health system in failure mode? Dr. Alan Jones stated in a press conference, Tuesday, August 17, “In...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “While the Affordable Care Act has greatly reduced the number of older adults who are uninsured, coverage has remained unaffordable for far too...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Three of the Trump’s appointees, Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch are viewed as more likely than their colleagues to...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In this year alone, he has mismanaged a public health crisis and the resulting economic recession — both of which have disproportionally affected...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Right now, under the Affordable Care Act, it is your right to have access to lactation support and counseling without cost-sharing for as...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “My father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s 10 years ago and I was under no illusions that he would live forever but never, in...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — A.P.” Powell, the founder and CEO of HeroZona, calls the recently established free drive-thru testing site “COVID City.” Funding for the site came...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Minority and low-income Americans suffer from a significant lack of access to quality health care. They are also more likely not to have...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "The voice of working-class and middle-class Americans have been drowned out by lobbyists and special interest groups. This, combined with the astronomical cost...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — While Black women get breast cancer at a lower rate than white women, we are 42 percent more likely to die from it....
WASHINGTON INFORMER — The Census Bureau released this week its annual report on health insurance coverage, showing that while nearly 2 million people nationwide are losing...
FLORIDA COURIER — After a health insurance change forced Bernard Macon to cut ties with his Black doctor, he struggled to find another African American physician online....
WASHINGTON INFORMER — A report released Sunday shows that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is not the scourge that Republicans make it out to be. In...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — According to the American Cancer Society, Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, behind lung cancer. African-American...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In recent times, more and more grandparents, primarily grandmothers, are taking on the responsibility of being the primary caretaker of their grandchildren. In...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — The best way to ring in 2019 is by getting the peace of mind that comes with having health insurance for you and...