Health Rewind: Do #BlackLivesMatter in the Doctor’s Office?
Plus, how incarceration makes us sick.
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Op-Ed Challenges Public Health Care System Dedication to African-Americans - A recent op-ed written in the New England Journal of Medicine pushes for medical providers to work harder to address how racism impacts the health outcomes of their Black patients. The author points out that only 4 percent of doctors are African-American. —Kellee Terrell(Photo: Brooklyn Production/Corbis)
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UN: Violence Against Women Is “Alarmingly High” - Thirty-five percent of women have experienced some form of gender violence, says a new report from the United Nations. The UN also found that more than 50 percent of women experience sexual harassment and that 52 percent of people believed that women were at fault for their own abuse, Time reported. (Photo: Image Source/Corbis)
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Black Men Have Lower Well-Being Than Whites - According to a recent Gallup survey, Black men report having lower well-being than their white counterparts. Young Black men reported higher rates of unemployment, lower graduation rates, less access to health care and higher incarceration rates. The survey found that Asian men had the highest well-being. (Photo: Br¸derchen & Schwesterchen GmbH/Corbis)
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Good Sleep Is the Key to Good Sex - Ladies: For better sex, you might want to get more z's. Researchers found that each additional hour of sleep increased a woman's likelihood to have sex the next day. Researchers found more sleep also helped women be more aroused and desiring sex, Health Day wrote. Just another benefit of getting your eight hours in. (Photo: Brooke Fasani Auchincloss/Corbis)
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Can Loneliness Shorten Your Life? - Too much “me” time can increase your risk of death by 29 percent and living alone can increase your risk by 32 percent, a new report suggests. Researchers claim that being isolated can be as dangerous as smoking and being obese as it pertains to our health outcomes, CBS News reported. (Photo: Dann Tardif/LWA/Corbis)
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What Empire Gets Right and Wrong About Mental Health - Fox’s hit show Empire addresses a slew of issues each week, including bipolar disorder. But a recent Slate article asks how accurate is the show’s portrayal, stating that while Andre’s up and down mental states are realistic, the frequency of the swings may be perpetuating misconceptions about this mental health illness. What do you think? (Photo: Chuck Hodes/FOX)
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Should the Age to Smoke Legally Be Raised to 21? - Raising the legal smoking age could save thousands of lives, a new study suggests. Researchers found that by changing the age from 18 to 21, this could prevent 249,000 fewer premature deaths among people born between 2000 and 2019. This move could also decrease the amount of young smokers by 12 percent, writes Health Day. (Photo: Phil Walter/Getty Images)
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Bigger Rumps Trending Among Plastic Surgery - Big rumps seem to be the rage when it comes to plastic surgery, The Atlantic points out. According to new data, butt implants nearly doubled last year, from 942 to 1,863 — and butt lifts and butt augmentations are up as well. Meanwhile, liposuction is down by 40 percent and breast reductions are up. (Photo: Michael Stewart/Corbis)
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The Link Between Mental Health and Obesity - A recent study suggests that depression can make obesity and other nutrition issues even worse, especially for Blacks who live in food deserts. Researchers in Pittsburgh found a high correlation between obesity, depression and poor nutrition among low-income African-Americans, but they are not sure which causes the other if at all, writes Think Progress. (Photo: JEFF HAYNES/AFP/Getty Images)
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How the Health Care System Fails African-American Men - While Black men have lower life expectancy and are more likely to die from homicide, cancer and heart disease, what is the public health sector doing? Not enough, says a recent op-ed in the Journal of American Medical Association. The authors also call out the lack of funding that should go into improving the conditions that Black men live in. (Photo: Dann Tardif/LWA/Corbis)
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