March 27, 2018 – Nearly 1 million people were out of the workforce because of opioid addiction in 2015, according to study
March 23, 2018 – Geography masks impact of race and poverty on health in Maryland, report finds
March 5, 2018 – African-Americans face higher rates of kidney disease as experts look at diet, stress, socioeconomic factors
January 26, 2018 – The Startling Link Between Sugar and Alzheimer’s
January 8, 2018 – Higher Stress Among Minority and Low-Income Populations Can Lead to Health Disparities, Says Report
December 27, 2017 – What We Mean When We Say Evidence-Based Medicine
November 15, 2017 – Childbirth is killing black women in the US, and here’s why
September 19, 2017 – NPA Blog: Closing the Gap on Cardiovascular Disease among African Americans
July 16, 2017 – Stress of poverty, racism raise risk of Alzheimer’s for African Americans, new research suggests
June 16, 2017 – Johns Hopkins researchers say they’ve unlocked key to cancer metastasis and how to slow it
May 31, 2017 – Study explores way to stave off heart attacks in HIV patients
May 15, 2017 – Valuable nutrients are lost when food is tossed, Hopkins study finds
April 1, 2017 – Residents across Baltimore can expect to live longer
March 29, 2017 – Those Indecipherable Medical Bills? They’re One Reason Health Care Costs So Much
December 2, 2016 – U.S. Health Spending in 2015 Averaged Nearly $10,000 Per Person
October 5, 2016 – Infant mortality in Baltimore decreases to record low
October 4, 2016 – Prince George’s hospital project clears major hurdle, step closer to state approval
October 4, 2016 – University of Maryland medical school research finds health disparities hurt early childhood development
State of Obesity – Better Policies for a Healthier America
September 2, 2016 – Not all hospital readmissions are bad, study finds
August 9, 2016 – 1965: The Year That Brought Civil Rights To The Nation’s Hospitals
August 9, 2016 – Study of Philly neighborhoods finds big disparities in health-care access by race
July 22, 2016 – Health-care exec: Expect an ‘oligopoly of hospitals’ for the future
July 14, 2016 – Untreated Maryland groundwater carries ‘very high’ risk of lead contamination, USGS finds
June 28, 2016 – More than 5,300 U.S. water systems violated lead-testing rules last year
June 1, 2016 – New Report: Compendium of State-Sponsored National CLAS Standards Implementation Activities
May 16, 2016 – You Mean I Don’t Have to Show Up? The Promise of Telemedicine
May 8, 2016 – Black Americans See Gains in Life Expectancy
May 5, 2016 – How often do you go to the doctor? It depends on where you live, study says
April 18, 2016 – This Baltimore 20-year-old just won a huge international award for taking out a giant trash incinerator
April 11, 2016 – The Rich Live Longer Everywhere. For the Poor, Geography Matters
April 4, 2016 – The disturbing reason some African American patients may be undertreated for pain
April 2, 2016 – Medicare Is Often Overbilled by Hospices, and Pays Twice for Some Drugs
April 1, 2016 – Infrastructure, public health linked, crisis in Flint shows: Aging US systems pose risks to health
April 1, 2016 – Right Neighborhood May Mean 90 Extra Minutes of Exercise a Week
March 26, 2016 – Schools Nationwide Still Grapple With Lead in Water
March 21,2016 – Baltimore Struggles To Protect Children From Lead Paint
March 11, 2016 – U.S. News highlights Meyerhoff Scholars Program for supporting success of minority students in STEM
March 23, 2016 – Maryland commission awards $3.4 million in grants to help combat health disparities
October 5, 2015 – Race and employment tied to U.S. clinic wait times
September 28, 2015 – How housing policy caused segregation in Baltimore
July 8, 2014 – Study finds extreme obesity may shorten life expectancy up to 14 years
January 10, 2014 – Federal Government Approves New Medicare Waiver For Maryland
December 14, 2013 – Solving the Shortage in Primary Care Doctors
December 12, 2013 – NIH study links family structure to high blood pressure in African-American men
September 21, 2013 – Association of Race and Ethnicity With Management of Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Department
August 9, 2013 – Hospitals Seek to Avoid Penalties by Minimizing Readmissions
July 1, 2013 – Prince George’s Hopes To Bring Doctors To A Zip Code Where There Are Few
Transforming Health in Prince George’s County – A Public Health Impact Study
The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities: Summary and Analysis of the NIH Summit Recommendations
HEALTH EQUITY Through Action: Lessons Learned and the Path Forward
2015 Assets & Opportunity Scorecard
Development Report Card (DRC) for the States
The County Health Rankings & Roadmaps Program
