The Phoenix Project

24/01/2014

http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/01/study_in_black_men_internalized_racism_speeds_up_aging_process.html

A new study in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine finds that taking in racism can wear away at white blood cells

22/01/2014

http://www.nationofchange.org/utah-ending-homelessness-giving-people-homes-1390056183

Earlier this month, Hawaii State representative Tom Bower (D) began walking the streets of his Waikiki district with a sledgehammer, and smashing shopping carts used by homeless people. “Disgusted” by

14/01/2014

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/the-odyssey-to-get-an-abortion-in-texas/283045/

Can pro-choice groups prove that the state has made it too hard to terminate a pregnancy?

14/01/2014

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/poverty-is-literally-making-people-sick-because-they-cant-afford-food/283032/

Low-income people are 27 percent more likely to be hospitalized for hypoglycemia at the end of the month—right before paychecks and benefits come out.

02/12/2013

http://consumer.healthday.com/cardiovascular-health-information-20/heart-attack-news-357/hispanic-women-heart-attack-aha-meeting-release-batch-1008-681975.html

And white men more likely than women to undergo procedures to open up blocked arteries, study finds

30/11/2013

http://www.philly.com/philly/health/HealthDay682412_20131121_Health_Disparities_Persist_in_America__Report.html

CDC finds race, s*x, education, location and wealth among key factors in these inequalities

19/11/2013

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-11-blacks-access-cancer-specialists-treatment.html

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say metastatic colorectal cancer patients of African-American descent are less likely to be seen by cancer specialists or receive cancer treatments. This difference in treatment explains a large part of the 15 percent higher m...

12/11/2013

http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/11/01/report-highlights-racial-disparities-in-berkeley-health/

A new report on the health status of Berkeley...

28/10/2013

http://www.westhartfordnews.com/articles/2013/10/01/news/doc524adc3b2a232992911369.txt

U.S. health disparities a growing concern - HARTFORD – When it comes to healthcare, the only area where America rates number one in the world is when it comes to its high cost of care, according to Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders.

08/07/2013

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/07/08/california_prisons_have_been_illegally_sterilizing_female_inmates.html

While it never got the kind of coverage that abortion rights did, forced sterilization was another reproductive rights violation that plagued women in the 20th century. The practice gradually disappeared as the concept of reproductive autonomy took hold in our national consciousness. Or we thought i...

10/06/2013

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/one-of-the-darkest-periods-in-the-history-of-american-prisons/276684/

Recent lawsuits and Justice Department investigations have uncovered grotesque abuses of mentally ill inmates at state and local prisons. Yet Washington refuses investigate allegations of similar mistreatment at federal penitentiaries.

29/05/2013

In a recent report, the Urban Institute estimated that if every state embraced the new Medicaid rules, as many as 535,000 uninsured veterans and 174,000 veterans’ spouses would become eligible for Medicaid coverage.