Doctors are more likely to describe Black patients negatively when writing notes and reports, which could encourage medical racism and Black people’s distrust of the nation’s health care ...

Black and Latino people use 10% to 40% fewer prescription drugs because of high costs, according to a report by Patients for Affordable Drugs.

Separate teams of providers deal with Black and white patients, with unequal results.

Black women often work hard to avoid reinforcing stereotypes and racist beliefs. Don’t doubt your experience — take action.

Black patients presenting at Emergency Departments (EDs) across the country with psychiatric complaints are 63 percent more likely to be chemically sedated than their white counterparts.

A review published by the Baylor College of Medicine found adult Black patients were significantly more likely to be physically restrained in emergency departments compared with all other patients.

Black patients were 36 percent more likely to experience a security emergency response than white patients. Read more at Boston.com.

India Marshall described the "emotional moment" she realized her doctor had braided her hair before her surgery to make her recovery easier.

The October study is titled “Listening to Black Californians: How the Health Care System Undermines Their Pursuit of Good Health,” funded by the California Health Care Foundation.

In Black patients with PN, we have noticed thicker, more fibrotic nodules, so we hypothesized that there would be a unique inflammatory signature in the blood.

Recall that a catch-all “explanation” for the higher mortality of Black cancer patients is that they’re sicker to begin with, likelier than white patients, for example, to smoke or be obese.