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A psychiatry journal has retracted two papers on COVID-19 and mental health, and a third on racism, after concluding that an author on the articles rigged the peer-review process.

Black female leaders urge systemic changes requiring programs that reach into every aspect of healthcare organizations.

Although career satisfaction is high among cardiologists, the survey found stark differences exist in professional lives across many domains.

The prevalence of homicide was 16% higher in pregnant women or postpartum women than nonpregnant or nonpostpartum women in the United States.

The World Health Organization honored the late Henrietta Lacks with a WHO Director-Generals award at a ceremony on Wednesday, with Lackss 87-year-old son accepting on her behalf.

Since a violent incident in August, Seattle-area psychiatric staff have been protesting unsafe working conditions, understaffing, lack of onsite security personnel and racism by management.

The HIV prevention pill has been available since 2012, but use of the pill is significantly lower among Black people in general, including Black women.

The tipping point for Paula Braveman, MD, came when a longtime patient of hers knocked on her office door to say goodbye. He wouldnt be coming to the clinic anymore because he could no longer afford it.

Judy C. Washington, MD, a mentor of many young academic family physicians, particularly underrepresented-in-medicine physicians, advises her mentees on how to see ahead and plot paths to leadership.

The prevalence of gestational diabetes has increased over the previous decade, and is especially common among women of Hispanic/Latinx and Asian backgrounds.