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Section: Health
Disparities
ACHA Issues New Guidance on Protecting Vulnerable Populations Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Along with careful and ambitious plans to reopen for the fall semester amid a pandemic have come pledges from campus leaders to keep all of their students safe. But new guidance from the American College Health Association (ACHA) urges college officials to also protect, support and engage those who are most vulnerable in the campus […]
August 31, 2020
COVID-19
ACHA Issues New Guidance on Protecting Vulnerable Populations Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
In a Q&A, Diverse speaks with Dr. Jean Chin, an associate clinical professor of medicine at Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership, about the American College Health Association’s “Supporting Vulnerable Campus Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic” guidelines.
August 30, 2020
Other News
OneLegacy Continues Its Commitment to Serve Diverse Donation and Transplantation Communities During National Minority Donor Awareness Month
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)– As part of its commitment to serve the many diverse communities of Southern California, OneLegacy continues its outreach initiatives during August’s National Minority Donor Awareness Month. People of color make up more than 70% of transplant recipients in the region; but the need for organ donation and transplantation is greater in minority […]
August 24, 2020
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Envision Healthcare Enhances Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Plan
NASHVILLE, Tenn.–Envision Healthcare today releases an enhanced strategy to build and advance a more diverse, equitable and inclusive environment within the national medical group. After a period of reflection following the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, among others, Envision has put forward a course of action to help the medical group […]
August 24, 2020
Disparities
Striking Delays in Autism Dx Among African-American Kids
African-American families with concerns about their children’s development have to surmount many obstacles before reaching an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis with providers, a study indicated. Among 584 Black children with ASD, the mean age of diagnosis was 5.4 years, more than 3 years after parents first reported concerns about children’s development, reported John Constantino, […]
August 24, 2020
Disparities
Philly Should Declare Racism a Public Health Crisis — And Then Do Something About it
Crisis is a term we often hear in conversations about things we perceive to be of grave danger to our lives or livelihood. When applied to public health, experts have loosely defined a crisis as an issue that affects large numbers of people, threatens those individuals’ health over the long-term, and requires large-scale solutions to […]
August 24, 2020
Disparities
‘Abysmal, but Fixable:’ Inside Biopharma’s Renewed Push to Up Racial and Gender Representation
The biggest “a-ha!” moment during a recently held roundtable on advancing equality in biopharma may have come by way of the live polling. Only 20% of the 10 or so drugmakers and CROs attending the roundtable said their corporate plans around diversity and inclusion were specific and intentional. Another 44% said they didn’t know if […]
August 24, 2020
Disparities
The Lack of Black Doctors is Killing Black Babies, New Study Finds
The case for greater diversity in medicine can’t get much more stark than this. Black newborns are three times more likely than white newborns to die when cared for by white physicians, according to a new study tracking 1.8 million hospital childbirths over more than two decades. But when they are cared for by Black doctors, Black […]
August 24, 2020
Disparities
Healthcare Providers Push to Fix Racism in the Medical Industry as COVID-19 Devastates Communities of Color
Two pediatricians, two allergists, one dermatologist and three hospitals. Anna Akins, 32, sat in waiting rooms in Louisiana for over nine months trying to get her newborn son’s condition diagnosed while he spent his days coughing and wheezing with undiagnosed allergies and no answers. For Akins, it took hours of exhausting conversations with doctors. She said she was not taken […]
August 24, 2020
Other News
Colby College Prepares Its $10 Million Health Plan as 2,060 Students Are Set to Arrive
Colby College students will start moving onto campus and in downtown buildings as soon as Friday, but in a much different way than they have in the past. The 2,060 students coming to Waterville this year will already have been tested for COVID-19 before they arrive, they will again be tested in a parking lot […]
August 17, 2020
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With Thousands of Students Arriving, Colleges in Connecticut Are Hustling to Get Students Tested for COVID-19
With 70,000 students now arriving on college campuses in Connecticut from across the nation, schools are scrambling to meet state requirements for COVID-19 testing. At Quinnipiac University, students arriving from states designated as “hot spots” by Gov. Ned Lamont are taking a brand new saliva-based test and their samples are sent to the same laboratory […]
August 17, 2020
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New Saliva-Based COVID-19 Test Could Be a Fast and Cheap ‘Game Changer’
After months of frustration over testing shortages and delays, a new saliva test could give Americans a fast and inexpensive option to learn if they have Covid-19. Researchers from the Yale School of Public Health created the SalivaDirect test, which received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration on Saturday. “The SalivaDirect test for […]
August 17, 2020
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Georgia College Students Throw Massive Party Ahead of School Year Starting, Ignoring COVID-19 Guidelines
A now-viral video posted on social media shows a massive gathering of University of North Georgia (UNG) students at party on Saturday night. Partygoers flooded the lawns of off-campus houses in Dahlonega, Georgia, two days before the school year officially began. It is unclear who originally posted the video, in which dozens of students flouted […]
August 17, 2020
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College Towns Brace For a New Wave of COVID-19
Sierra Imwalle, a real estate agent in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is taking the COVID-19 pandemic seriously. When she shows houses to clients, she takes precautions: masks, distance, hand sanitizer. She’s avoiding the denser, usually crowded downtown area and steering clear of restaurants. Other people in Ann Arbor are also sticking to public health recommendations, she says. […]
August 17, 2020
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Opening Up? Taking a Look at Fall Reopening Decisions at HBCUs
In the age of COVID-19, starting the new fall semester will be like no other for the nation’s colleges and universities. In this roundup, we highlight plans that some historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) have cautiously devised to bring their students back to campus, teach them virtually or do a mixture of both — […]
August 17, 2020
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Morehouse Takes Center Stage in Response to COVID-19’s Impact on Minority Communities
Heading into fall, scientists estimate that COVID-19 has been with us for more than half a year. It’s still unclear, they say, when the virus began to infect people in the United States. But this is certain: the coronavirus has harmed Black and Latinx people at higher rates than other groups, according to emerging data. […]
August 17, 2020
Other News
University of California Requires Flu Shots for Students, Faculty and Staff
Students, faculty and staff in the University of California system will be required to get flu vaccinations before Nov. 1 as part of a new system-wide executive order, UC officials announced Friday. Read More
August 10, 2020
Other News
How One Dynamic Duo Is Transforming Women’s Health On College Campuses During COVID-19
During her freshman year in college, Crystal Evuleocha began to experience unusual abdominal pain. After a few days of the pain getting worse, she went to the health center on campus, but upon finding the center closed realized she’d have to visit the next day during business hours. Not knowing what to do, she turned […]
August 10, 2020
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