Category: Minorities
States Diverge on Transgender Health Care
States are diverging on whether to provide gender reassignment services, such as hormone treatments and surgery, under their Medicaid programs.
Immigrant children held in US facilities traumatized and sick, report
Officials said the spike in contagious diseases are unlike anything they’ve seen before.
Medicaid Enrollment Among Immigrant Kids California Falls; Fear To Blame?
The decline may be due in part to rising fear among their families in response to anti-immigrant rhetoric and federal crackdowns on unauthorized immigrants.
‘Unskilled’ immigrants help to ease the pain of dying Americans
Without immigrants, there could be fewer people to take on the difficult task of helping our family members live out their last days.
Non-English Speakers Face Health Setback If Trump Loosens Language Rules
The Administration wants to ease a regulation requires health care organizations provide patients with limited English a notice of free translation services.
Rate of life-threatening childbirth complications increasing sharply across U.S. racial, ethnic groups
From the National Institutes of Health Racial and ethnic disparities in severe maternal morbidity — life-threatening maternal complications associated with childbirth — have persisted and increased at high rates among U.S. women, according to an analysis of nearly 20 years…
Blacks, Native Americans left out of cancer drug trials
Black people and Native Americans are under-represented in clinical trials, even when the drugs are aimed at a cancer that disproportionately affects them.