Crash-test dummies have long been designed around male bodies, putting women at higher injury risk. New female models represent progress but still fail to reflect most women.
Health Equity & Social Justice
Indigenous Angelenos speaking Zapotec, Mixtec, or K'iche' face a triple language barrier in healthcare — and immigration raids are making an already impossible situation more dangerous.
Native Californian medical students are reclaiming healthcare for their communities — one pipeline program at a time — as AI/AN life expectancy sits nearly a decade below the national average.
Black women face higher fibroid rates and worse outcomes. While advocates are pushing for more research and visibility, journalism can help show what’s driving the disparity — and what needs to change.
Cesar Vasquez, who has supported families of undocumented immigrants since age 14, has become a community lifeline — and a known ICE target.
Because of contract disputes, cost and legislative hurdles, it will likely take years before the remainder of the city’s tens of thousands of lead pipes are replaced. In the meantime, experts say residents should take precautions like water filters.
While mounting pressures cut across the profession, they fall heaviest on freelancers, self-employed journalists and those from community and ethnic media.
While Black gay and bisexual men experience higher rates of HIV, PrEP remains less accessible to many in this community.
Even in states that require products to be supplied, advocates say uneven rules and lax enforcement leave women scrambling.
Rising housing costs in Massachusetts are forcing working families to sacrifice food, lose SNAP benefits, and face impossible tradeoffs, pushing many toward food pantries or leaving the state.