Veterans seeking medical care through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have experienced long and disparate patient appointment wait times across various healthcare settings, even after...
Yelp will be posting new consumer-facing notifications on its business pages meant to quell medical misinformation or misleading medical information about crisis pregnancy centers and abortion access,...
Living in poverty, separation from a parent, and parental harshness or neglect are all key adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) that lead to an increased risk for premature death in adulthood,...
Primary care clinics can effectively close the care gap for depression assessments by employing universal mental health screenings, according to researchers from the University of California San...
The University of Tennessee’s College of Nursing was recently awarded a $3.7 million grant by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to fund a project which aims to boost...
Researchers may have uncovered two new SDOH screening questions to ask in the emergency department, with the questions accurately predicting future homelessness, according to new data in JAMA Network...
The social determinants of health explain about half of the racial health disparities in life expectancy in the United States, emphasizing the nation’s need to address social risk factors,...
The United States overdose epidemic continues to worsen, but most patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) lack potentially life-saving medication access, according to new findings published in the...
For many Houston adults, high out-of-pocket healthcare costs have deterred them from accessing care, according to new survey data collected by Sesame via Pollfish.
The nation's fourth-largest city...
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) access has increased over the years, but stark racial health disparities presented at the 24th International AIDS Conference yield concern that the HIV...
Health barriers driven by social determinants of health (SDOH) have worsened chronic disease management for patients dealing with hypertension, a Mayo Clinic Proceedings study concluded.
Hypertension...
Older adults could have better medication management, yet most are missing out on medication reviews which can reduce patient risk and improve prescription costs, according to researchers from the...
Twenty-four medical schools throughout the nation will revamp their education curricula, creating programs incorporating diversity, health equity, and inclusion into training, according to a press...
A new guidebook drafted by experts convened by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has set forward to provide actionable recommendations for how healthcare organizations can address health...
Food insecurity, a serious social determinant of health, can create a cycle of health inequity that puts patients at a greater risk for health-related missed workdays and overnight hospitalization,...
As more states consider expanding nurse practitioners (NP) scope of practice, a recent poll conducted by Morning Consult on behalf of CVS Health found that most patients want broader NP authority so...
The legacy of redlining has led to present-day neighborhood health disparities, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, which noted that residents in...
The shadows of historic racist policies such as redlining continue to impact present-day health outcomes, leaving Black people to bear the burden of health inequities, according to a recent analysis by...
Much has been made of the potential for community-based health to close racial health disparities, but new research in JAMA Network Open says those community programs are most effective when they are...
Landmark civil rights legislation that instituted Medicare and Medicaid was instrumental in closing racial health disparities in care utilization, according to new data in JAMA Network Open. But those...
