Baby Lives Matter!!!!!

Black Lives Do Matter.

I n this issue of Circulation, Mehta and colleagues 1 provide additional information on the state of cardiovascular care for the black population in the United States and, once again, the results remain mixed in our ability to optimize care for all. Their data remain consistent with findings from Bridges et al 2 in 2000 in identifying race as an adverse factor for mortality for coronary artery ...

When I say 'Black Lives Matter, ' why do some people hear 'Others Lives Matter Less'?

The statement ”Black lives matter” is commonly construed as implying other lives matter less, even though the statement does not explicitly reference other lives. Bias is a common explanation for this construal. However, other factors may contribute. We hypothesized that the linguistic structure of “Black lives matter” plays an important role. ”Black lives matter” takes the form of a generic, o...

Biomedicine. Hamiltonian medicine: why the social lives of pathogens matter.

Do black lives matter in public health research and training?

OBJECTIVE To examine whether investments made in public health research align with the health burdens experienced by white and black Americans. METHODS In this cross-sectional study of all deaths in the United States in 2015, we compared the distribution of potential years of life lost (PYLL) across 39 causes of death by race and identified key differences. We examined the relationship betwee...

The Baby Boom and Baby Bust

The fertility of American women over the last 200 years has two salient features, portrayed in Figure 1. First, it has declined drastically. The average white woman bore 7 children in 1800. By 1990 this had dropped to just 2. This decline in fertility ran unabated during the 140-year period between 1800 and 1940. Second, fertility showed a surprising recovery between the mid1940s and mid-1960s....