Monthly Archives: February, 2024
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Black Women in the U.S. Murdered Six Times More Often Than White Women Over Last 20 Years
Black women in the U.S were, on average, six times more likely to be murdered than their white peers for the years 1999 through 2020, according to an analysis of racial disparities in U.S. homicide rates to be released by Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.
The Health Divide: FDA under fire for lack of action on pulse oximeters for dark skin
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel met Feb. 2 to discuss the problems that pulse oximeters pose for patients with dark skin, including Black and Hispanic individuals. Advocates and experts said urgent action is needed, but change has not been forthcoming.
After VA waives copays, American Indian and Alaska Native Veterans save $2.5 million in health care costs
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced that it has exempted or reimbursed more than 143,000 copayments totaling approximately $2.5 million for more than 3,800 eligible American Indian and Alaska Native Veterans.
How the ghostwriter of Biden’s memoirs ended up in the center of a classified documents probe
President Joe Biden worked so closely with the ghostwriter with whom he is accused of sharing classified secrets that he once declared that he’d trust the author with his life.
How Trump urging Russia to invade ‘delinquent’ NATO members distorts how the alliance works
Donald Trump, the front-runner in the U.S. for the Republican Party’s nomination this year, says he once warned that he would allow Russia to do whatever it wants to NATO member nations that are “delinquent” in devoting 2% of their gross domestic product to defense.
