While Black gay and bisexual men experience higher rates of HIV, PrEP remains less accessible to many in this community.
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There’s growing evidence that medicine risks losing talent from poor and working-class, Black and Latino communities. Ultimately, patient care will suffer as a result.
Even in states that require products to be supplied, advocates say uneven rules and lax enforcement leave women scrambling.
An investigation exposes “medical deportations”: hospitals are transferring seriously ill migrant patients outside the U.S. to avoid costs, violating rights and putting lives at risk.
Una investigación expone las “deportaciones médicas”: hospitales trasladan a pacientes migrantes graves fuera de EE. UU. para evitar costos, vulnerando derechos y poniendo vidas en riesgo.
Physicians receive lower payments for taking care of Black and Hispanic patients than white patients, according to a new study. Dr. Aaron Schwartz, the study’s lead, explains what may be driving the disparity.
Latino immigrants in the U.S. have become "professional guinea pigs" in clinical trials, earning. Worse, they're underrepresented in beneficial studies but overrepresented in risky phase 1 trials.
In Part Two of The Mercury’s Pulse Check series, we explore how hospitals, clinics and nonprofits are grappling with various federal funding cuts to public health.
Farmworker communities in the Salinas Valley face a host of health risks from nitrate-polluted wells in the region.
What can the Southern experience of life without expanded Medicaid teach us about the consequences of going uninsured across the nation? And what story ideas can reporters explore now as they prepare for this massive policy shift?