African American Health

For this summer’s WUNC Youth Reporting Institute, participants were tasked with telling stories from their communities. Reporter Parys Smith spoke with medical professionals and the women in her family about the experience of Black women in the healthcare system.

Before a pharmaceutical treatment can hit the pharmacy shelves, manufacturers must prove the product’s safety through a series of trials. Phase I trials…

A national poll, in collaboration with the NAACP and the Yale School of Medicine, shows African Americans are a lot more trusting of local elected…

In North Carolina and across the nation, black communities are contracting and dying from COVID-19 at disproportionately high rates. But there has been…

In North Carolina and across the nation, black communities are contracting and dying from COVID-19 at disproportionately high rates. But there has been…

When Stephanie Pickett was a nurse at Duke University Medical Center, more than 90% of the patients she saw with kidney failure were black. This shocking…

When Stephanie Pickett was a nurse at Duke University Medical Center, more than 90% of the patients she saw with kidney failure were black. This shocking…

Numerous studies on childbirth in the US present a grim fact -- racial disparities persist in the delivery room. Rates of maternal and infant mortality...

Is the high cost of health care keeping black women from following up on breast cancer treatment? A new study in the Journal of the National Cancer…

Is the high cost of health care keeping black women from following up on breast cancer treatment? A new study in the Journal of the National Cancer…