Standard treatment of hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes includes a pathway when “cost is a major issue.” Whether it’s just to do so remains unclear.

Poor oral health has been neglected as a public health threat, despite recognition as “epidemic” in scale by the US Office of the Surgeon General.

Raciolinguistic hierarchies can undermine the quality of Latinx patients’ health experiences.

Success depends on strong support, rehabilitation, adherence, and social integration.

To combat the rising incidence of type 2 diabetes, New York City requires laboratories with electronic reporting capacity to upload data on hemoglobin A1c measurements to a city department of health registry.

Kelly Leonard, executive director of insights and applied improvisation at Second City Works, relates how improvisation can help clinicians build relationships with patients and improve their outcomes.

In US health care, language and linguistic difference are often conceived in discrete, instrumental, and monolithic terms.

CHWs’ work underscores need for clinicians and organizations to respond to deeply entrenched, long-standing patterns of oppression in ways that draw upon lived experience.

Until the mid-20th century, birth in the United States for Latinx Indigenous peoples was an ancestral ceremony guided by midwives and traditional healers.

Helping patients mitigate their risk of chronic disease is key, but dietary supplements are risky.