My parents fell in love at a time when their union was illegal in 16 states. My father, who is white and who was a priest at the time, married my mother, who later became one of the first black women ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skin of Color Society, NEJM Group, and VisualDx are proud to announce a series of virtual panel discussions that call attention to health disparities and structural ...

For many of the nation’s 7,000 Negro doctors, admission to the American Medical Association (216,000 members) has always been beyond reach. Almost all of the organization’s Southern chapters have ...

Stocky Dr. Henry Cadan of Brooklyn said last week that in many cases he could do a lot about color blindness. The Air Forces and the Navy do not want colorblind men, weed them out with color cards ...

Like many of you, my identity was tested during medical training. As a Latina in medicine, I am often the only Latinx/Hispanic physician or scientist in the room. As my career continued to grow, I ...

Dr. Marcelle Willock initially faced some resistance and resentment when she arrived in 1982 at the Boston University School of Medicine, where she became one of the nation’s first women of color to ...

Correlation does not imply causation, we are often taught in medicine. But patterns of attrition from one of the Pacific Northwest’s largest medical training institutions call for a closer look. Since ...