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Headlines That Caught Our Eye

Genetic Databases Need More Diversity

“A group of hospitals has a plan to get around Congress’s refusal to lower the cost of insulin”

Breast cancer death rate in Black Women: Does DNA repair play a role?

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Policy Center

From the Living Well Black Blog

“Change Your Clocks, Change Your Batteries” Make Your Place Fire Safe!

FDA’s Safety Review of Food Additives Should Focus on Protecting Kids, Pregnant Women & Unborn Children

Death Rates Rising Again for Black Men and Women

8 Critical Area of Health Disparities

The CDC’s Healthy People 2020 defines a health disparity as ‘a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage. Health disparities adversely affect groups of people who have systematically experienced greater obstacles to health based on their racial or ethnic group . . . or other characteristics historically linked to discrimination or exclusion.’”
—Healthy People 2020, Healthy People / Disparities

There are many areas in which people in the Black community live with higher risks of developing a certain diseases or conditions or suffering harm. Please visit the information hubs below for more information and for ways to improve your health and the health of those you love.