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All parents are concerned for their children’s safety, but parents of color shoulder a particularly challenging burden raising children in a racially charged society. Although no magic formula exists for helping children of color get through the racial dynamics of our society, Riana Anderson offers some research-based strategies for parents.
African American women in the US have lower breastfeeding rates compared to women of other races. But if health care providers and advocates offer more breastfeeding support to African American moms, it may benefit the overall health of the African American population.
Environmental monitoring will be key as the world reaches global polio eradication. Looking for poliovirus in sewage and using new disease models will improve how we track and understand each outbreak.
A Nobel Peace Prize for Dr. Denis Mukwege brings to the fore the upstream factors that create conditions for sexual violence, such as trafficking in minerals essential to the electronic devices we use every day.
Most Americans support organ donation, but only about half are registered as donors. Empirical data can help us understand our hesitations, but for many of us, becoming a donor is also an emotional decision.
More than 2,300 children were separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border between May and June 2018. University of Michigan experts weigh in on how the trauma of long-term separation from their parents effects a child’s development.