Having no health insurance means an early death to almost 45,000 people in the United States annually - almost two-and-a-half times the number previously estimated -- according to a study published Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health. More...
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In the first full year of the recession, the nation's poverty rate climbed to 13.2 percent, up from 12.5 percent in 2007, according to an annual report released Thursday by the Census Bureau. More...
As the health care battle continues, the Obama administration is starting to make a moral case for health reform. But on the ground, grassroots activists are already busy working to reshape the language of the debate -- they're pushing for the right to call health care a human right. More...
If President Barack Obama's health care plan is defeated, blacks and Hispanics -- who make up nearly half of the estimated 50 million Americans without health insurance -- will be the most affected, reports Earl Ofari Hutchinson. More...
As the health care debate rages on the national scene, in New Orleans the future of health care also remains uncertain. More...
The land where the blues was born still suffers from them disproportionately. More...
FEMA finally hit the send button on a database the CDC needs to start a study on the health of children who lived in formaldehyde-contaminated trailers after Hurricane Katrina. More...
A new study found that North Carolina's minority children lag far behind white children in several measures of a child's well-being, including health, poverty and education. More...
A new report released this week by the Black AIDS Institute outlines the promise and the challenge of the current moment in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the black community. More...
The eastern region of Virginia continues to see surging rates of HIV infection, and remains one of the hardest-hit regions in that state. More...
Kentucky and West Virginia have the highest death rates from smoking, according to a new study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More...
The birth rate for teens rose in more than half of the states in the United States in 2006, with the biggest increases seen in the South. More...
Deaths from overdoses of prescription drugs are increasing in the United States, especially in West Virginia. Coal miners often work the heavy-equipment used for strip mining and mountaintop removal making these laborers the major victims of this epidemic. More...
FRI 12/5/08 -- Residents of the historic Mid-City neighborhood in New Orleans saw their homes flooded by Hurricane Katrina. Since then they've been working to rebuild their homes and neighborhood. But now it looks like they will see those very... More...
More than 25 million men, women and children have died around the world from HIV/AIDS since 1981. Some 20 years after the first World AIDS day shone a spotlight on the virus, some 33 million people are living with HIV,... More...
Hurricane Katrina's youngest survivors are now the sickest children in the United States according to a report released Monday by the New York-based Children's Health Fund and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. More...
The 17th International AIDS Conference opened this week in Mexico City, with appeals for the international community not to slow down its fight against a disease that has claimed more than 25 million lives. While HIV/AIDS is often touted as... More...
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