U.S. bucks the trend on maternal mortality
The U.S. stands alone in falling behind. Continue reading →
View ArticlePaid for disability care
Because it's only wives' who absolutely, positively, always must work for free Continue reading →
View ArticleHealth insurance v. asthma
Children's asthma rates, and the Black disadvantage, are lower in the military health system. Continue reading →
View ArticleHealthcare’s race of place
In the healthcare-access sweepstakes, in which racial inequality is a pronounced feature, places have a race, too. Continue reading →
View ArticleMammography’s income gradient
Money, insurance and marriage on the road to cancer screening. Continue reading →
View ArticleRace, insurance, and diagnosis delay
It's not just access to insurance that privileges White women in breast cancer treatment. Continue reading →
View ArticleCare vacuums
Which came first, the closed nursing home or the doubled-up household? Continue reading →
View ArticleHealth inequality recap
Killing time before the SCOTUS decision on Obamacare is announced. Continue reading →
View ArticleObstacles to healthcare aren’t cheap either
Giving away healthcare has a lot of costs, but figuring out who to deny shouldn't be one of them. Continue reading →
View ArticleHome birth is more dangerous. Discuss.
Birth complications are somewhere between a hangover and a nuclear meltdown. What do we do to prevent them? Continue reading →
View ArticleGirls braced for beauty
Girls are held to a higher beauty standard and feel the pressure to get their teeth straightened. This subjects them to needless medical procedures and reinforces the over-valuing of appearance....
View ArticleBlame the poor, “We tried generosity and it just doesn’t work” edition
Giving poor people money -- or in-kind benefits -- to help them survive is not a solution to poverty, it's a treatment for poverty. If we had more decency we'd do more of it. Continue reading →
View ArticleWeathering and delayed births, get your norms off my body edition
For Black women, the health risks increase linearly with age at birth. Why wait? Continue reading →
View ArticlePhilip Cohen at 50, having been 14 in 1981
14-year-old me is never going to believe this. Continue reading →
View ArticleUT-Austin sociologist Mark Regnerus, still not an expert, again has testimony...
Should academia track the number of times you've had your testimony thrown out of court by federal judges?
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