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A University of Pittsburgh cardiologist who faced backlash over an opinion piece he wrote criticizing affirmative action is suing his employers, the American Heart Association and the company that published and then retracted his article, alleging that he was demoted and defamed because his views were unpopular.
Dr. Norman C. Wang, who is a faculty member in Pitt’s School of Medicine and a doctor with University of Pittsburgh Physicians, was removed from his position as director of UPMC’s clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellowship program in August days after his article was noticed by other cardiologists on Twitter.
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American women fare far worse in pregnancy-related deaths than women in comparable countries. Women in the United States are more than twice as likely to die of pregnancy than women in Canada, data from the Canadian government data and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows.
Heart disease and stroke cause the majority of pregnancy-related deaths in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and decades of research has shown that these killers disproportionately affect Black women. Black women are 3 times as likely to die from pregnancy than white women, CDC data shows.
Dec 16, 2020
(METRO) When in need of a beverage to warm them up, billions of people across the globe routinely look to tea. That choice has been made since ancient times, as various historians trace the habitual consumption of tea to ancient China.
Anything that has survived since ancient times no doubt has some good qualities, and tea is no exception. According to Penn Medicine, various types of tea each provide their own unique health benefits, some of which may surprise even the most devoted tea drinkers.
1. White tea: A 2010 study published in the Journal of Food Science found that antioxidant-rich white tea boasts anti-carcinogenic properties. Penn Medicine also notes that white tea is a significant source of fluoride, catechins and tannins, ingredients that can strengthen teeth, improve their resistance to acid and sugar and fight plaque.
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DALLAS, Dec. 16, 2020 Significant racial disparities exist in heart-related problems among pregnant and postpartum women in the United States, with Black women having the highest risk of several serious complications, according to research published today in the
Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access journal of the American Heart Association. Clinicians should be aware of the cardiovascular risks associated with pregnancy that, although not common, can result in serious illness and death. Women at increased risk for heart disease should be closely monitored during and even after pregnancy, said Samir R. Kapadia, M.D., senior author of the study and chair of the department of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.
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