Nov 25, 2020 | Health & Wellness
By GOOD BLACK NEWS The Clinical Research Forum recognized the Cedars-Sinai’s Smidt Heart Institute with a 2019 Top Ten Clinical Research Achievement Award for its study aimed at developing a blood-pressure control program for African-American men in the comfortable...
Nov 23, 2020 | Entertainment
By Monica Sisavat After adapting Ta-Nehisi Coates’s 2015 bestseller Between the World and Me for the Apollo, Kamilah Forbes is making her television directorial debut by turning the play into a special for HBO Max, set to air on Nov. 21. Between the World...
Nov 18, 2020 | Health & Wellness
By Ashleigh Atwell A medical student created a handbook to teach physicians how physical symptoms appear on different skin tones. Malone Mukwende, a second-year student at St George’s, University of London, was motivated to create “Mind the Gap” after he noticed a...
Nov 16, 2020 | Health & Wellness
By Nicholas St. Fleur As the U.S. edges closer to approving a vaccine for Covid-19, a difficult decision is emerging as a central issue: Should people in hard-hit communities of color receive priority access to it, and if so, how should that be done? Frontline health...
Oct 26, 2020 | Health & Wellness
By Jonathan Shieber SoftBank’s Opportunity Fund has made the health insurance startup Vitable Health the first public commitment from its $100 million fund dedicated to investing in startups founded by entrepreneurs of color. The Philadelphia-based company,...