O n Sept. 25, 2023, the Biden-Harris administration announced that it will be investing some $200 million in the youth mental health crisis. Since youth mental health was declared a national ...

Black veterans who ask the Department of Veterans Affairs for physical or mental health benefits are less likely to get them than their white counterparts, according to new data compiled by the VA ...

Researchers at Harvard University examined MRI scans of 7,350 White and 1,786 Black children ages 9 and 10. The data in the study was collected by the National Institutes of Health in 2019.

Premature death, before the age of 75, is more common in Black people than Hispanic and white people. The health inequities are startling, and the mental health effects of stress causted by racism ...

Black Americans are more likely to experience anxiety, depression, and other symptoms of emotional distress than white Americans, yet they’re also less likely to receive treatment. In our ...

Gastroenterologist Darrell M. Gray II and radiation oncologist Karen Winkfield break down what Black people need to know about colon cancer, from symptoms and risk to diagnosis and treatment. By ...

In 2018, researchers who reviewed more than 50 studies found that Black people were nearly 2 1/2 times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia than white people. That study didn’t look at ...

Black women die due to pregnancy-related complications at a rate that is three times higher than their white peers, according to recent federal data, and experts say those tragic disparities ...

Other key findings from the survey: More teens report spending too much time on social media: 45% of teens say they spend too much time on social media in our current survey, up from 36% in 2022.

Mothers’ Mental Health: New research involving nearly 200,000 mothers found that one in 12 rated her mental health as fair or poor, a significant decline from 2016 to 2023. An Infertility Crisis?: ...