As part of a statewide response to multiple wildfires burning in the Los Angeles area, California Department of Public Health is urging Californians in areas affected by wildfire smoke to take steps to protect their health, including staying indoors and reducing outdoor activity if necessary to avoid the inhalation of smoke and ash. Californians can ...

By Sunita Sohrabji President-elect Donald Trump could use the unconstitutional process of impoundment to withhold funds to federal health safety net programs. As it aims for a leaner budget, the incoming Trump administration may cut or eliminate several federal health safety nets, including Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program. ...

By Dianne Anderson For those who think former Number 45, which is the same as incoming Number 47, is not their president, they may want to think again. The day after the election, Republicans held high hopes, with stocks soaring, and $25 billion gained for Elon Musk alone, the biggest winner for the wealthiest man ...

By Dianne Anderson Why Black women continue to die more than white women during childbirth is not so much the medical mystery that some might believe. For the most part, health equity is key in the Black-white gap. “CDC data show that Black women are two to three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related ...

By Dianne Anderson When Dr. Candice Taylor Lucas is not waxing poetic on the harder sides of being a Black female doctor standing tall in stilettos, she is taking whatever steps needed to heal others so they too may not stumble or fall. Just getting through the hospital doors, for Black doctors or patients, is ...

Don’t Lose Yours By McKenzie Jackson California Black Media Five percent of the 225,231 Californians who lost their Medi-Cal coverage in June were African American. According to numbers from the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), around 14,000 Black Californians lost health insurance with the state’s safety net health care exchange because they didn’t ...

By Dianne Anderson Alzheimer’s and dementia can take decades to show up, but there is no time like the present to start working on healthier lifestyles. Compared to whites, Blacks get the disease twice as much, but another issue is at play. Expert Dr. April Thames said the community, especially Blacks being most impacted, must ...

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Sr Natl Correspondent A new study shows that after some progress, the number of deaths and years of possible life lost among America’s Black population stopped going down and then started going up again. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) said their results show that new ways of doing ...

By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media Economists advising The California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans have developed economic formulas that project the reparations owed to Black Californians who are descendants of people enslaved in the United States are likely to exceed $800 billion. Three of five harms were ...

By McKenzie Jackson California Black Media Black women in the Golden State trail behind their counterparts from other ethnic groups in median wealth and a lower percentage of them have obtained higher education degrees. Black mothers and their babies have mortality rates that surpass women from other racial and ethnic backgrounds. California Black Women’s Collective ...