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Those reasons include racial issues, affordable and accessible health care in the Black community, the lack of Black physicians, lower incomes and food deserts. He said the answer to the higher rate of death has to be more complex than Blacks are “built wrong” because their ancestors survived slavery. Dr. Andre Harris serves as chief … Read more

When the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in late February, Dr. David Brown couldn’t stop thinking about the kids. Brown, a plastic surgeon at Michigan Medicine, had been to Ukraine almost every year for the last seven with a team of doctors, nurses and medical residents from across the US to operate on children who’d … Read more

Deaf residents report frequent issues with sign language interpretation at Connecticut hospitals and health care facilities, hindering their ability to understand medical care fully. And though video remote interpreting (VRI) services are widely available at Connecticut hospitals, patients have reported mixed experiences with the technology. The issues persist more than 30 years after passage of … Read more

Placeholder while article actions load Charletta Brown has not had access to the same luxuries or flexibility available to some Americans during the coronavirus pandemic. She has gone into work every day, contending with repeated potential exposures. She is a breast cancer survivor on chemotherapy maintenance drugs, putting her at higher risk for severe infection. … Read more