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Heart Warming Doctor’s Note
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced new guidelines for those who have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19. We know that people want to get vaccinated so they can get back to doing the things they enjoy with the people they love,” said CDC Director...
Historical African American Doctors
In honor of Black History Month, we are celebrating African American Doctors who pioneered and significantly improved medicine in America. Dr. James McCune Smith was the first African-American to obtain a medical degree. He was also the first black person to own and...
Low Vaccination Rates For Black Americans
Preliminary COVID vaccine data indicates Black Americans have been vaccinated at rates significantly lower than white Americans. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released information on the demographic characteristics of vaccinated people. According to...
Mother and Daughter Both Match At LSU Health in Louisiana
Dr. Cynthia Kudji, originally from Ghana, West Africa was a senior at Tulane University when she became pregnant with her daughter Jasmine. She paused her dreams of becoming a Doctor and started her healthcare career working in a nursing home as a nursing assistant. ...
America’s Medical Resident Report of race, gender, specialties, and other demographics.
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) released a report of America's Doctors in training. The report discusses, race, gender, specialties, and other demographics. According to the report, in 2020, nearly 140,000 medical residents worked in health care...
Rural Hospitals Struggling In The Fight Against COVID-19
Coronavirus hospitalizations are increasing in many rural and less populated areas that were previously relatively unaffected. Doctors and health officials worry that infections will overwhelm small communities that have a short supply of medical resources. "The 20%...
Lawmakers Drafting Bill Requiring Cultural Awareness Training For Health Professionals
A prominent lawmaker in Indiana is drafting a bill that would require cultural awareness training for the state’s health care professionals. This call for action comes after Dr. Susan Moore died of complications from COVID-19 in late December, after alleging racial...
What Doctors Are Saying About Holiday Gatherings
Many people are trying to figure out how to celebrate Thanksgiving safely. This holiday could become a national superspreader event since COVID-19 is transmitted by droplets sprayed while talking or breathing heavily in close proximity. Traveling from one hot spot to...
Doctors Researching Connections In COVID-19 And Diabetes
The U.S. National Institutes of Health is financing research into how the Coronavirus may cause high blood sugars and diabetes. More research is needed to prove, beyond the increasing evidence, that COVID-19 is triggering diabetes on a large scale. Dr. Robert Eckel,...
Increased Unconscious Bias In HealthCare During COVID-19
Implicit or unconscious bias operates outside of the person’s awareness and can be in direct contradiction to a person’s espoused beliefs and values. What is so dangerous about implicit bias is that it automatically seeps into a person’s affect or behavior and is...
Doctors Propose New Climate Change Curriculum
Doctors are urging medical residency programs to include content about health impacts of climate change in curricula. Climate change increases risks of heat-related illness, infections, asthma, mental health disorders, poor perinatal outcomes, adverse experiences from...
More Patients Seeking Transgender Physicians
Approximately 1.4 million Americans identify as transgender and gender nonbinary (TGNB). A GLAAD survey from 2017 showed that nearly 12% of millennials identified as TGNB. And a 2020 survey from the Trevor Project found that 1 in 4 LGBTQ youth use pronouns or pronoun...
The U.S. Needs More Black Female Doctors
In the United States, just 5 percent of active Physicians are Black and only 2 percent are Black women. Research shows patient-provider racial and gender concordance has many benefits. A Black female patient receiving care from a Black female Doctor has more trust,...
New Study Addressing Racial Health Disparities in Infant Mortality
The infant mortality rate in the United States is more than twice as high for Black infants as it is for white infants. According to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 10.8 deaths per 1,000 live births compared with 4.6 per 1,000 as of 2018. Studies are...
26 States At Risk Of Having An ICU Doctor Shortage
According to a George Washington University study, researchers found that a majority of states in the U.S. will soon face a shortage of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Doctors as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. According to ABC News, the most recent update finds that 26...