Racial Disparities

The Biden administration has approved more than $2.3 billion for those affected by Hurricanes Milton and Helene. Studies show the system for distributing the funds deepens historical divides.

The 13-member Race Reconciliation Committee will be tasked with identifying problem areas and proposing solutions regarding racial inequities in the city of Tampa.

Black homeownership continues to lag behind white homeownership in the U.S. and Florida.

Adults who develop one autoimmune form of diabetes are often misdiagnosed with Type 2. Those wrong diagnoses make it harder to get the appropriate medications and technology to manage blood sugar.

Despite medical advances, disparities are expected to worsen in the coming decades. The expansion of the aging population and rising numbers of people with conditions that put them at risk are expected to contribute to this alarming scenario.

The University of Florida health system is exploring ways to better engage Black adults in need of health care.

To be Black in America is to struggle with health problems from birth to death. The reasons are myriad. The Associated Press spent a year exploring this legacy of racism in a series of stories.

An EEG can help diagnose conditions like epilepsy, sleep disorders and brain tumors. But a design flaw and outdated Eurocentric practices make the test less effective on thicker, denser and curly hair types.

Designed to prevent doctors from deploying expensive, ineffectual procedures, preauthorization has morphed into a monster that denies or delays care, burdens physicians with paperwork and perpetuates racial disparities.

Dr. Washington Hill is speaking on the issue this week at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's 43rd annual pregnancy meeting in San Francisco.

Improving lung cancer outcomes in Black communities will take more than lowering the screening age, experts say. Disparities are present in everything from the studies that inform when people should get checked to the availability of care in rural areas.

A new investment fund launched by one of the few Black venture capitalists in health care is focused on backing Black entrepreneurs. And the investors include some of the biggest names in for-profit health care.