Health sciences are rooted in concepts that go back centuries, and some of those concepts were crafted with a racist lens, writes contributor William Heisel.
Health Equity & Social Justice
Why was the Navajo Nation overlooked in the face of the pandemic?
The patient was near death. The physician almost missed it — and warns problems like this will grow as the nation expands telehealth without improving access to technology.
In hard-hit Navajo Nation, fighting COVID-19 means addressing a long history of underinvestment and policy neglect.
COVID-19 has underscored the disparities faced by immigrant communities in access to medical care and financial support in the state.
As conversations about defunding the police have sprung up across the U.S., some sexual assault survivors and advocates have joined the fray to call for changes to the system.
Two days before her 22nd birthday last fall, Dominique Green was at the Rocklin Police Department reporting a rape, still shaken from a violent incident with a former coworker the night before.
CapRadio healthcare reporter Sammy Caiola discusses her reporting on the intersection of race, police violence and sexual assault.
It's hard to tell the story of how the Marshallese came to America without starting with the nuclear bombs.
Hundreds of studies show Medicaid expansion saves lives. So why do lawmakers reject the program or impose punitive rules during a pandemic that hit low-income Black and Brown people so hard?