New research links discrimination, chronic stress, and inflammation to higher mortality rates among Black Americans. For ...

The Root spoke exclusively with Dr. Kaytura Felix about the risk factors related to preeclampsia and how we support healthy ...

Adult obesity in the United States has gone up over the past 30 years. Here's a look at why.

The health disparities that Sebastian Cota observed in his native Los Angeles led him to Columbia University’s Mailman School ...

Burdensome health care spending in the United States is a wide-reaching issue that requires multiple solutions, according to ...

A new study found that by 2035, almost 50% of Americans will be medically obese. In 1990, that number was just 20%. Nonwhite ...

A maternal health policy forum at Birmingham City Hall focused on the disparities Black women face in accessing health care ...

January is Thyroid Awareness Month, an opportunity to shine a light on a small but vital gland that plays an outsized role in ...

Introduction Large socioeconomic disparities in healthcare utilisation and health outcomes have been well-documented in Latin ...

Persistent mental healthcare access disparities among minoritized youth populations signal gaps separating evidence-based interventions from on-the-ground services needed by historically underserved ...

For nearly two decades, public health practitioner Angela Doyinsola Aina has worked to reform the systems that contribute to ...

Young, racially diverse trustees who include several grantees are helping the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation hold the line on ...