Akilah Johnson

When patients walk into a doctor’s office, they bring all their needs — including concerns about mental health.

It marked the third consecutive year the nation’s maternal mortality rate, long the highest among high-income nations, increased.

The price society pays for failing to achieve health equity and allowing Black people to die prematurely was $238 billion in 2018 alone.

The death of Tori Bowie, who was eight months pregnant, has been attributed to one of the most common causes of maternal mortality: high blood pressure.

Black women and girls in the United States were three times more likely than their peers to die while giving birth or in the six weeks afterward.

In the United States, the deadliest place to give birth among high-income nations, Black women die at two to three times the rate of White, Asian and Latina peers.

For every maternal death in the United States, research shows about 100 women experience severe maternal morbidity.

It has been four years since coronavirus infections began burdening people with lingering symptoms often dismissed by medical providers.

Racism was called a health threat. Then came the DEI backlash.

Analysis | DEI backlash threatens efforts to explore the health-race nexus