— Toluse Olorunnipa, The Washington Post President Trump capped his fruitless four-year journey to abolish and replace the Affordable Care Act by signing an executive order Thursday that aims to enshrine the law’s most popular feature while pivoting away from a broader effort to overhaul the nation’s health insurance system. The order declares it is […]
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The African slave who taught America how to vaccinate itself from smallpox | Quartz
In April 1721, a smallpox outbreak swept through Boston. This was the latest in a string of six epidemics that had, since, 1630, laid waste to the city. Cotton Mather, a local slave owner and preacher, claimed to be in possession of a way of preventing contraction of the disease. Mather, who had first come […]
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South Carolina’s Republicans gutted public healthcare. Then the pandemic hit | The Guardian
People in poor and rural areas are left with little access to care, with chronic diseases unchecked and a higher risk of complications if people have Covid-19 Camden might seem like a strange place for a coronavirus outbreak. It’s a small, historic city in central South Carolina – just over 7,500 people. It’s neither densely packed like […]
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Viola Davis on Being Diagnosed With Prediabetes: ‘I Was Shocked’ | Self.com
The actress tells us about life after her diagnosis.
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Meet Tiffany Alexander, 27, co-founder of a pediatrics urgent care facility in Birmingham | Birmingham Times
Ameera Steward, Birmingham Times Tiffany Alexander (Amarr Croskey photo). Featured Image [dropcap]Spending[/dropcap] long periods of time in a hospital with her mother, who had been diagnosed with cancer, gave Tiffany Alexander a love for health care and helping others. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “We always had a great medical staff [at Russell Medical Center in Alexander City, […]
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Welcome to Detroit, where black babies are at higher risk of death | The Guardian
Mothers face extreme deprivation due to mass water shut-offs, hospital deserts and stress from economic racism. As a result, Detroit leads in premature births.
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Double-digit jump in hunger for Philly, the country’s poorest big city | The Philadelphia Tribune
Aaron Moselle , The Philadelphia Tribune Photo via Witnesses to Hunger Facebook. Featured Image [dropcap]New[/dropcap] research shows hunger has gotten worse in Philadelphia over the last six years, even as it’s gotten better nationwide. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Between 2012 and 2017, food insecurity — or the inability to always afford sufficient food — increased 22 percent, […]
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