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Covid-19 is evolving, but vaccine policy is eroding
Covid-19 is no longer a world-stopping pandemic, but the vaccine that helped to slow it down is at risk
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Why people who need health care the most struggle to get it
For millions of Americans managing several health conditions at once, staying healthy can require more than keeping up with doctors’ appointments and treatments. They also have to navigate a health care system that can become increasingly difficult and expensive to use the more care they need. A new KFF survey determined that adults with multiple…
Where Native veterans are getting lost
New federal data show American Indian and Alaska Native veterans experience some of the nation’s highest veteran suicide rates.
Purpose Beyond Diagnosis expands access for families across South Jersey and beyond
Purpose Beyond Diagnosis, a year-round resource network for families of neurodivergent individuals, recently announced that its inaugural summit — originally planned as an in-person gathering at The College of New Jersey — will now be held virtually on Saturday, November 7, 2026, from 10:00 AM to 4:45 PM ET. The shift removes geographic and travel…
From Elmhurst Hospital patient to pediatric chief resident
Jessica Ludizaca wanted to be a doctor since she was 4 years old. Just before she left New York City for medical school at St. George’s University in Grenada, she broke her wrist. As her cast was being set, she told the doctor she couldn’t make it to the follow-up appointment two weeks later. She…
The Unseen Toll: Depression, Anxiety Plague Black Women a Year After DOGE Layoffs
Part 1 of a three-part series, FIRED: The DOGE Layoffs Hit Black Women Hard, a collaboration between MindSite News, Capital B, The 19th, and The Nation, edited by MindSite News. Photographs by Kuwilileni Hauwanga Darnese Foster remembers the day she learned she was fired from her federal government job. “I was off that Friday, which…
Health coverage in danger for 11,000 Washington state immigrants
By Micah Yip SEATTLE – After fleeing political repression, then being beaten so badly in another country that he suffered a spinal injury, a patient came to the United States […] The post Health coverage in danger for 11,000 Washington state immigrants appeared first on AsAmNews.
Why rest looks different for Black women
Being praised as “strong” or “resilient” can obscure, or erase altogether, the costs of enduring stressors. Maybe even more so for Black women in leadership roles.
Coping With Ovarian Cancer
Niharika’s story Niharika, * a 58-year-old teacher who lives in North Carolina, had been experiencing bloating, abdominal distension, constipation, occasional vaginal bleeding even after menopause, tiredness, feeling full quickly, and had lost weight. She does not have any children. Upon consulting her gynecologist and doing some tests, including an ultrasound, CT scan, and blood tests,…
In a Texas Prison, This Black Woman Turned Scraps of Paper Into a Menopause Lifeline
This story was originally reported by Candice Norwood of The 19th. For most of Kwaneta Harris’ life, menopause was not something she heard people talk about. She didn’t learn about much beyond hot flashes, night sweats and irregular periods in her nursing school training, or at any point during her decade-long career in the medical…
Tulsa Period Pantry has delivered free period products to 63K girls. It wants the model to expand across Oklahoma.
Tulsa Period Pantry began in Cassie Celestain’s home closet, delivering free period products to two partner schools. Five years later, the nonprofit supplies period pantries in 100 Tulsa-area schools, giving over 63,000 girls access to essential products supporting their hygiene, confidence and school attendance. Celestain no longer does it alone. One week every month, hundreds…
What happens when being a “strong” Black woman becomes a health behavior?
Black culture sometimes enforces a narrative that being a “strong” Black woman is a virtue. But the cultural rewards for stoicism could be connected to physiological harms.
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