Living in the midst of chronically stressful situations, including those suffused with race inequality and gender discrimination, may trigger new growth and coping skills — but it can also erode your ...

Forty years ago, the public was outraged. It seemed there was a wave of teenage girls, particularly Black teenage girls, getting pregnant. "This was a new idea, this new deviant class of people, and ...

Health inequalities remain as intransigently rooted and malevolent today as in previous decades. Why? Professor of Public Health Arline T. Geronimus, who has studied this discrimination for decades, ...

We know health outcomes frequently differ based on race. The 'Weathering theory' could help explain why, at least in the US. https://p.dw.com/p/4eESK Although it is ...

In 2020, the overall life expectancy in the U.S. dropped by 1.5 years, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the reduction wasn't shared equally among the general population; Native American ...

For many hundreds of millions of years, the average temperature at the surface of the Earth has varied by not much more than 20 degrees Celsius, facilitating life on our planet. To maintain such ...