According to a recent poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, among households that had a serious illness in the past year, one in five respondents said they had trouble accessing care during the pandemic. ...
A recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report details several adverse impacts from poor diversity in clinical trials. These include lack of access to effective medical interventions, compounding of health disparities in underrepresented and...
With adults, teens and kids across the state still depressed and anxious from COVID-19, NJ struggles to find psychiatrists, psychologists and counselors to help them. From clinicians to psychiatrists, New Jersey is in need of more mental health professionals....
The latest plan to reduce New Jersey’s stubbornly high death rate among Black women in childbirth and the year afterward calls for diversifying the workforce that cares for pregnant and post-partum women and changing payment incentives. Read the Full Article.
A new federal report found that fatal overdoses jumped 44 percent among Black people, twice the increase among white people, from 2019 to the end of 2020. Read the Full Article.