Community violence can be devastating. Healing after community violence can be difficult. But there are ways we can take care of ourselves and each other.
Older LGBTQIA+ people’s health challenges must be addressed. Achieving healthy aging in the LGBTQ community will require awareness, compassion, and action.
Given the high maternal mortality rates that Black people face, Dr. Kerry-Anne Perkins offers advice to improve the odds of a safe and healthy pregnancy.
Many people have a health issue when they’re pregnant called gestational diabetes. It can affect between two and ten percent of all pregnancies. What is it, and what does it…
As Philadelphia comes to grips with the mental health impacts of racism, how can we create a productive path forward? One unique initiative, the Porchlight Program of Mural Arts Philadelphia,…
This is a time of unprecedented visibility for lesbian, gay, bisexual (bi), transgender (trans), and intersex people. I’ll use the term LGBTQIA to encompass this very diverse population. With this…
Shortly after my son Landon was born in 2019, he was diagnosed with sickle cell disease (SCD). My husband and I knew that a SCD diagnosis was a possibility since…
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, you may have heard more about public health than any other time in your life. But public health is more than fighting widespread disease –…
High blood pressure during pregnancy, also known as maternal hypertension, affects close to 15 percent of all pregnancies in the U.S. Maternal hypertension can be serious and can endanger the…