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Restaurant news: Planta Queen, Crush'd Beach House open but Flip Flops closes in Fort Lauderdale – Sun Sentinel

Coming soon to Lighthouse Point is Jeremiah’s Italian Ice. Meanwhile, Fort Lauderdale bars Flip Flops Dockside Eatery and Whale’s Bar & Grill have both closed.

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South Florida restaurant openings, closings - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Coming soon to Wilton Manors is Mamma Mia Italian Bistro. Fantasy Room Bar & Grill is heading to Hollywood this summer.

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South Florida restaurant openings, closings - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Also open: Gelato & Co., Fort Lauderdale and Wow Wing House in Tamarac. Meanwhile, coming soon are Blue Dog Cookhouse & Bar in Boca Raton and The SoSo in West Palm Beach.

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South Florida restaurant openings, closings - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Also open: Alem Mediterranean-Turkish restaurant in downtown Hollywood. Carousel Club at Gulfstream Park will open April 1 in Hallandale Beach, while Ela Curry Kitchen in Palm Beach Gardens and Kava Jive in Wilton Manors will open later this spring.

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The Effects of Systemic Anti-Blackness in Healthcare

Emily Kocis and Toni Shindler-Ruberg investigate the intricacies of systemic anti-Blackness in the healthcare system.

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Black women find solutions to end racial health care disparity

Black women are finding solutions to end racial health care disparity.

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Black women find solutions to end racial health care disparity

Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Heide Spence, a mother of two, said she does not remember a time in her life since getting her first menstrual cycle at age 10 when she did not suffer from painful period complications. "I wouldn't have a period for months at a time and then I would get one and it would look like a crime scene because it was so much blood," Spence, now 40, told ABC News' Good Morning America. "I would travel to work with a change of clothes because I would go from home to work 15 minutes away and would have bled through an overnight pad." Spence, of New Jersey, said she was told by doctors over the years that her symptoms were nothing to worry about, or that one heavy period was just the result of her not having a period the months before. Being a young, single mom on Medicaid at the time only made things harder, according to Spence. "Taking care of my health was at the bottom of my priority list because at some jobs I worked at I didn't have PTO [paid time off]," she said. "If I didn't work, I wouldn't get paid. I couldn't afford to miss a week of work for an ablation surgery or procedure." Five years ago, in 2017, Spence said she reached a breaking point. "I had bled for a month. I was exhausted and I went to a new doctor," she said. "I told her, 'I can't keep doing this. I don't have the energy to go to work. I can't be an effective mother to my kids. I can't afford to take time off work.'" The doctor performed a biopsy on Spence, which detected endometrial cancer, a common type of uterine cancer. "She was like, 'I need to get you into surgery as soon as possible,'" Spence recalled the doctor saying. "That was just crazy for me, and very life-changing. I don't know what could have happened if I had not had that wit's end moment." Though endometrial cancer is slightly more common in white women, Black women have a 90% higher mortality rate with the disease, due in part to the advanced stage at which they often receive a diagnosis, according to a 2020 study published in JAMA Network Open. It's a similar story for cervical cancer and breast cancer too. A study released in January that looked at women in Georgia found Black women are more likely than white women to be diagnosed at a later stage of cervical cancer and are nearly one-and-a-half times more likely to die of the disease. With breast cancer, Black women are younger at diagnosis and are more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive or advanced forms of breast cancer, compared to white women. Among all racial and ethnic groups, Black women are more likely to die from breast cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute. Among other health disparities, Black women have the highest rate of obesity compared to other groups, according to the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health, and nearly 50% of Black women ages 20 and older have heart disease, according to the American Heart Association. When giving birth, Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than white women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Following her cancer diagnosis, at age 36, Spence underwent a hysterectomy, which she said she felt like was her only option. The experience, she said, changed how she approaches her health. "I definitely prioritize my health more," said Spence. "I definitely seek out help and I tend to ask to see a minority doctor now." A problem with a long history From the early days of slavery onto segregation, the data threads a line to current poor health outcomes among Black women. One study released in 2017 found that among women who currently had breast cancer, Black women who were born in a state with Jim Crow laws at the time faced a higher risk of being diagnosed with more severe breast cancer tumors. The mistrust of the medical community among Black people traces all the way back to examples like Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were collected from her body and used for medical research without her consent in 1951. Decades earlier, in the 1930s, 600 Black men were unknowingly recruited into U.S. Public Health study on syphilis at the Tuskegee Institute, which continued for 40 years. More recently, a study of over 500 medical students and residents found that half held at least one false belief about biological differences between Black and white patients, like the myth that Black patients have a higher pain tolerance, according to the study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. According to Dr. Brooke Cunningham, a general internist, sociologist and an assistant professor in the University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Black women face long-stemming social obstacles that negatively affect their health, like often being heads of household and primary caregivers, being more likely to be uninsured, facing financial strain due to the gender pay gap and being more likely to live in places with unequal access to healthy food, safe housing and adequate medical care. "For Black women in particular, the root cause of racial health disparities lie in structures, particularly structures of racism," said Cunningham. "The particular social location of Black women ... adds to stressors and reduces resources and opportunities to improve health." Both the CDC and the American Medical Association (AMA) have identified racism as a public health issue. "Racism impacts every pillar in the driving course of social determinants of health," said Dr. Jessica Shepherd, a board-certified OBGYN and chief medical officer of Verywell Health, a website that provides health and wellness information. "That can create a barrier to health equity, how patients have access, how they have resources and also the choices that they're given as far as the management of their symptoms or being heard. That's the fundamental issue." Though Black women have faced health disparities for decades, the alarming statistics around maternal mortality have put a new spotlight on the issue. Another source of renewed attention in recent years has been the broader conversation on race in the U.S., according to Dr. Kemi Doll, a gynecologic oncologist at the University of Washington, who is investigating causes of disparities in gynecological cancers among Black women. "People are saying, 'If I could have been so off about how I thought race might manifest in policing, or how race could influence these things, how else might I have missed or been off about how race is influencing my research or my clinical care?,'" said Doll. "That drove a lot of interest in let's start over. Let's think about things differently." Doll was at the forefront of change in 2016, when she co-authored a research paper looking at the disparities Black women faced specifically in reproductive health. Up until that point, there had been little research on why Black women faced worse health outcomes, according to Doll. "The narrative was basically: There's something wrong with Black women's bodies. There was just so little investigation into why," said Doll, founder of the Endometrial Cancer Action Network for African-Americans (ECANA). "There is not an inherited reason why Black women have more aggressive endometrial cancer." She continued, "In 2022, we're just starting to ask the question: So then what would be the other things that would drive this more aggressive disease and why would Black women be more exposed to those things?" While experts like Doll propel research on Black women's health, others are working to re-educate medical providers. According to the AAMC, a "growing number" of medical schools are working to add anti-racism education into their curriculum. In one example, the Icahn School of

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South Florida restaurant openings, closings - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Coyo Taco is set to open soon in Fort Lauderdale, along with Big Buns Damn Good Burgers and Buoy One Seafood.

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South Florida restaurant openings, closings - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Memphis Garrett's new Ya Mas! is now open in Fort Lauderdale. Coming soon to Palm Beach County is a Windy City barbecue spot and World of Beer in Miramar.

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South Florida restaurant openings, closings - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Opening this week is Morèa, a Mediterranean restaurant with an oceanfront view in Fort Lauderdale. Coming soon to Las Olas Boulevard is Ya Mas! Taverna from Memphis Garrett.

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