The fact that racism is a public health crisis comes as no surprise. Perhaps the surprise is that it has taken so long for this to be publicly acknowledged. Over the past months, Fenway Health has made public statements of …
BOSTON, July 14, 2020—A Perspective essay published in Psychosomatics: The Journal of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry uses case scenarios to illustrate how implicit bias among psychiatrists and other clinicians can affect patient-clinician communication and diminish the quality of health care provided to …
Fenway Health is pleased to announce that it has been selected as the pilot site, in partnership with Audacious Inquiry, the University of Washington’s Clinical Informatics Research Group and athenahealth, to participate in the Advancing Standards for Precision Medicine (ASPM) …
BOSTON, July 9, 2020―Fenway Health has joined a broad coalition of health care providers, LGBTQIA+ advocacy groups, and patients as a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed today challenging the legality of a new rule published by the U.S. Department of …
DURHAM, N.C. – Researchers from the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) announced today that the HPTN 083 clinical trial showed that a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) regimen containing long-acting cabotegravir (CAB LA) injected once every 8 weeks was superior to daily …
Over the past month, America has begun a long overdue conversation about the legacy of violence and discrimination against our Black community. It’s abundantly clear that real, meaningful change – right now, not later – is imperative to ending the …
BOSTON, June 30, 2020—An editorial published in The British Journal of Psychiatry calls for the development of alternative psychiatric care frameworks that affirm transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) people without pathologizing them through clinical diagnoses. The editorial was authored by researchers …
BOSTON, June 15, 2020—Today, in a 6-3 ruling, the United States Supreme Court found that employers who fire employees “merely for being gay or transgender” are in violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The ruling …
BOSTON, June 12, 2020―Today, the Trump Administration announced that it would remove sexual orientation and gender identity nondiscrimination language from seven federal regulations governing access to health care, health insurance, and services for nursing home eligible elders. The final rule …
The events of the last weeks have left so many of us struggling to find our way through enormous anger, sadness, dismay, and fear. Our continuing national legacy of racist violence against Black people and of devaluing the lives of …
