BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — During a session with reporters on May 15, six members of the Congressional Black Caucus discussed their battle to push back on massive...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Each year, more than 1.5 million Medicare Advantage prior authorizations are improperly denied, according to KFF, and that number is only growing with...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Contrary to the common biases of people with chronic obesity, Dr. Fatima Stanford, an obesity medicine physician scientist and staunch supporter of the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Obesity Bill of Rights has garnered initial endorsements from 36 prominent organizations, including the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the American Nurses...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “On December 9, Dr. Benjamin Chavis, President and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, told Victor Blackwell, Anchor and Correspondent of CNN,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The CDC's report is a sobering reminder that our work is far from over. The fact that infant mortality has increased after two...
By Aldon Thomas Stiles California Black Media There is a growing body of evidence that disparities in medical treatment in the United States — compounded over...
Maxim Elramsisy | California Black Media The California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) has released a study that found Black Californians are highly engaged with their health...
By Rhonda Smith The next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in California has arrived. As the state begins to implement its SMARTER Plan, protecting ourselves and...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The healthcare system has long been inequitable – low-income individuals, people of color, and those without means, time, or money to travel to...
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 — Staging frequent media briefings where surrogates tout Biden’s message remains a regular occurrence of the campaign. On Tuesday, July 21, former Baltimore Mayor...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As President of the Texas Black Expo (TBE), my primary interest is the economic part of the system—the creation and growth of Black-owned...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — One major reason Black people suffer disproportionately from Alzheimer’s is we are underrepresented in dementia research, in part because many of us are...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The failure is national, and our president sees the coronavirus pandemic in personal and political terms. He is forcing Republican governors to open...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Cincinnati’s Black Nurse Practitioners has joined forces to build impactful relationships, empower students and nurses, strengthen its presence in advanced and leadership roles,...
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 — “It has come to light that a collaboration involving some law firms, doctors, and finance companies are pressuring women into unnecessary surgeries to...
OAKLAND POST — We must do something about rising costs, and one key is to empower patients with the information they need to drive costs down...
