Health Disparities

Black women are more than three times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy-related causes.

The board is likely to start its work this fall.

As the country observes the sixth anniversary of Black Maternal Health Week, a local organization will train men as doulas, as an effort to address the Black Maternal Health crisis.

There are more than 100 Historically Black Colleges and Universities nationwide but only four have medical schools in operation, something Morgan State University will change by 2024 with a new school.

The esteemed medical historian's new book recounts the history, hopes and disappointments of electronic telemedicine technology, and examines its failure to deliver health services equitably across race and income lines.

University of Maryland researchers estimate that over a 30-year stint excessive aircraft noise may cause health issues, $40 million uptick in healthcare costs each year.

Far more residents in Washington D.C. have been vaccinated against monkeypox and some Marylanders trekked to the nation’s capital for shots.

In the U.S. medical system, doctors do listen to patients—but mostly to move on with goals the doctor already has set. That’s the picture in Health for Everyone, a book. edited by primary-care physician Zackary Berger. How to put patients’ goals at the center.

Black women die before, during and after childbirth at twice the rate of white women--who are themselves at greater risk than in other countries. We ask a family-medicine doctor and a leader of B-More for Healthy Babies -- Why? And what to do about it.

We’ll go On the Record with an infectious-disease doctor and an advocate who work with people living with HIV. How has the pandemic affected their work? How do poverty and inequity complicate effective treatment?