Maisha Joefield thought she was getting by pretty well as a young single mother in Brooklyn, splurging on her daughter, Deja, even though money was tight.
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Stress And Poverty May Explain High Rates Of Dementia In African-Americans | NPR
Harsh life experiences appear to leave African-Americans vulnerable to Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, researchers reported Sunday at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in London.
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What’s Killing America’s Black Infants? – The Nation
Racism is fueling a national health crisis.
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Obamacare Repeal Will Hand a Nauseating Tax Cut to the Rich – Slate
Obamacare is a complicated law with lots of interlocking parts that make it tricky to understand. But one of the core, very simple things it did was raise taxes on the wealthy in order to fund subsidized health care for more Americans.
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Repealing Obamacare Could Leave 59 Million Americans Uninsured – The Atlantic
That’s more than before the law was passed
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Congress to begin Obamacare repeal effort in January, says Mitch McConnell
Senate majority leader acknowledges repeal of Affordable Care Act will take time and says 20 million covered by law will not lose healthcare
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Simone Leigh’s The Waiting Room: Art That Tries to Heal Black Women’s Pain
The artist’s new exhibition pays tribute to Esmin Elizabeth Green, who died on the floor of a New York City hospital, by presenting an alternative vision of the US healthcare system
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End-of-Life Decisions Are More Challenging for Black People – KOLUMN Magazine
Fueled by religious beliefs and mistrust of the medical system, the lack of end-of-life planning has long-lasting financial consequences.
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Most Asthma Research May Not Apply To African American Children
Results rom the largest single study of the genetic and environmental causes of asthma in African American children suggest that only a tiny fraction of known genetic risk factors for the disease apply to this population, raising concerns for clinicians and scientists working to stem the asthma epidemic among African Americans.
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The Mystery of Why Black Americans Are Living Longer
African Americans, and young black men in particular, are on average living much longer than they were just two decades ago.
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