The hormone-related cancer can develop after someone is exposed to the kind of endocrine-disrupting chemicals, including benzene, that were found in the dust that lingered in Lower Manhattan for months after the 9/11 attacks. Read the Full Article.
COVID-19 patients are filling more beds in Main Line Health’s hospitals, but whether it’s the new omicron variant or the delta variant that put them there, doctors largely don’t know. Genetic sequencing, the process that could tell them quickly, is in short supply in...
The COVID-19 pandemic has made visible the inequities that riddle the American healthcare system. Black and Latinx Americans have been three times more likely to contract the coronavirus and twice as likely to die from it. But even before the pandemic, minority...
The American Medical Association recently published “Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative, and Concepts.” It encourages doctors to address the upstream social causes of health inequities, such as unsafe housing conditions, and to center care around...
