Archive | Race and Health

The ship in Yokohama is "the site of the most infections outside of China."

Slavoj Žižek: "[R]acist paranoia is obviously at work here."

US citizens returning from Hubei will be quarantined for two weeks.

Truth hurts.

Travelers coming back from China will be isolated.

It’s good for you, like it or not.

Which is worse, "xenophobia" or a deadly disease?

Cancer isn't colorblind.

Better to risk infection.

Poor whites appear to be healthier than poor non-whites.

Guess what else the cities have in common.

Rare example of blacks and Asians having something in common.

Hair straighteners and permanent dyes are full of toxic chemicals.

Race matters.

Study wisely categorizes "Hispanics" into more precise sub-groups.

There’s something very disturbing happening.

Aspirin is not colorblind.

A look at "ADHD stigma."

Arjumand Siddiqi and Odmaa Sod-Erdene can explain everything.

And here we thought "racism" caused high black heart disease.

January was the last time he was seen in public.

Healthcare professionals suspect blacks are, "less likely to comply with follow-up care recommendations."

Muslims in New Zealand are using social media to pressure KFC into using halal meat.

They claim being covered head to toe in bullshit is good for your health.

University president denounces “despicable, disgusting” acts.

Or is the real problem black crime?

It's "a systemic problem where hard/lab science is valued over applied/patient-focused science."

Bias in algorithms is “significant and prevalent.”

Rates of attempted suicide are either stable or down, except for young blacks.

97 percent of victims are white.

“It’s a patient’s right to have language-interpreting services.”

They’re working on it.

Study compared Puerto Ricans in the Bronx to those in Puerto Rico.

Typhus, leprosy . . . what next?

As a result, entire residential units have to be quarantined.

Several dozen staffers caught the virus.

There are no real health differences; only bias and ill treatment.

If the product doesn't work for blacks, should we ban it for whites?

Understanding the nature of racial differences.

A different variant — which is unique to blacks — may lower blood pressure.

They receive too little care early in life but too much care late in life.

The Tuskegee experiment is to blame.

Blacks are 80 percent more likely than whites to have diabetes.

Schools are reevaluating entry requirements and taking into account non-academic factors.

Meditating away the "pathology of whiteness."

It's a black and white disease.

"Life expectancy is largely determined by where a person lives."

In some areas, more than 30 percent of the population may be infected.

The Telegraph ignores race — until the last paragraph.

Migrants are bringing tuberculosis, H1N1, chicken pox, and Legionnaires.

Bringing with them measles, chickenpox, and other diseases.

And only one of them straightens her hair.

The baby appears to be of a different race.

The anti-polio effort has been suspended in Pakistan because of attacks.

Guatemalans are 83 times more likely to have tuberculosis than Americans.

The local populations are suspicious of health workers.

Because races are different.

It’s white people who are dying.

CBP is overwhelmed by unprecedented numbers of sick migrants.

Study claims whites experience 17 percent less air pollution than they produce.

Black nurse charged with financial misconduct, dishonesty, and not providing appropriate care.

Mumps can take 25 days to appear.

Feeling bad about being white.

Because race doesn’t really exist.

Hint: It's causal.

An unwelcome import.

Treatment works better on blacks than whites.

Black face gives Dems a black eye.

It’s grim, but there is hope.

Some of the offending gene variants are unique to the Japanese.

Agents have spent 20,000 hours since October driving asylum seekers to and from medical exams.

Fox News commentator has raised the ire of Conservatism, Inc.

Parents bring their sick children hoping to use them as shields against deportation.

"If we only study Alzheimer's in Caucasians, we'll only learn about Alzheimer's in Caucasians."

Another job Americans won’t do?