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Doctors Have Long Warned That Chokeholds Are Deadly

'These Inequities Are Heartbreaking': AG Healey Urges Action on Health Care Disparities

Doctors Need to Talk to Families About Guns and Dementia

Excited Delirium dilemma: Explanation or excuse for in-custody deaths?

The Coronavirus Is Making Mental Health In ICE Detention Even Worse

Medical racism at work? Study finds blacks, Latinos get worse care for neurological disorders

It’s a Public Health Crisis: How Systemic Racism Can Be Neurotoxic for Black Americans

Sexually Abusive Doctors

Drs. Joshua Budhu, Méabh O’Hare On 'Excited Delirium' And Racism In The Medical World

Mass. attorney general says pandemic is opportunity to reduce health care inequities

No Medical Justification For Police Chokeholds, Neurologists Say

Diagnosis used in high-profile police deaths has no medical basis, physicians group says

What Is ‘Excited Delirium’?: Study Debunks Go-to Diagnosis Used to Explain Deaths of Black Men Detained By Police

Sanctuary Clinics Offer Respite For Undocumented Residents Amid Immigration Raids

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When ICE comes knocking, healthcare workers want to be prepared

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ICE Keeps Raiding Hospitals and Mistreating Disabled Children

As states diverge on immigration, hospitals say they won’t turn patients away

Trump Says Schools, Churches, Hospitals Aren’t Off-Limits to Immigration Police

Coronavirus Pandemic Sends Health Inequities of People of Color 'Bubbling to the Top'

Women Are Being Denied Cancer Treatment, Psychiatric Help At ICE Detention Center

Black and Hispanic patients less likely to see neurologists

Racial Disparities in Outpatient Neurologic Care

When the Target of Bias Is the Doctor

One Reason Migrant Children Are Dying In Government Custody: Authorities Can't Tell When They're Sick

AG Report: Technology, Housing Could Alleviate Health Disparities

Report Technology Housing Could Alleviate Health Disparities

Police Chokeholds Are Not Justified, Say Neurologists

Debunking the 'Excited Delirium' Diagnosis for Deaths in Police Custody

Listen: A ‘city on fire’: How Miami shaped a disputed diagnosis used to justify deaths in police custody

Bernard Lown Award Winner Altaf Saadi, MD, Connects Health Justice with Neurology

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Diagnosis, Ep. 4: Diagnosis Through the Bias Filter

Emergency medical association rejects ‘excited delirium,’ used to describe some deaths in police custody

Maulings by California police dogs linked to lack of regulation, ACLU report finds

Authorities claimed these Black men had excited delirium just before they died. But the diagnosis itself is a problem and should be abandoned, a new study says

The Capricious Use of Solitary Confinement Against Detained Immigrants

Immigrant detention centers are dealing with mumps and chicken pox outbreaks, and thousands have been put into quarantine

Rochester Cops Were Offered Training on Discredited Diagnosis Connected to Daniel Prude’s Killing

Sanctuary Clinics Offer Respite For Undocumented Residents Amid Immigration Raids

There's Just One Medical Doctor at Immigration Detention Facility in Aurora

‘A generations-long public health crisis’: Massachusetts AG Office’s report outlines steps to resolve medical inequities laid bare by COVID pandemic

Neurologists Call for End to Neck Holds by Law Enforcement

Lifeline: Altaf Saadi

The Afternoon Buzz 3.8.22 – International human rights lawyer Joanna Naples-Mitchell and neurologist Altaf Saadi

Psychosocial and Cultural Considerations for Providing Health Care to Immigrant and Refugee Populations

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Minnesota lawmakers look to ban ‘excited delirium’ training for police

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Sanctuary debate: What should immigration enforcement look like at hospitals?

Op-Eds & Viewpoints

Police Keep Using 'Excited Delirium' to justify brutality. It's Junk Science

Immigrants are suffering in detention. They need adequate healthcare now

I Thought My Ivy League Degrees Would Protect Me From Bigotry. I Was Wrong.

What students learn from sticking with their patients

In Science and Medicine, Diversity Shouldn't Be Optional

COVID-19 Shows Us Why We Should Keep ICE Out of Hospitals

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Making a Case for Sanctuary Hospitals

Recognizing the Domestic and Childcare Workers That Help Women in Medicine Succeed

Celebrating Roe V. Wade as a Pro-Choice Muslim

The Invasion of Ukraine Reminds Me of Growing Up in Iran. The Trauma Is Lasting.

Detention Facilities Display Dangerous Trend of Delayed and Inadequate Care

Refugee Awareness Month: An Opportunity for Neurologists to Consider the Health of Displaced Populations

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How “excited delirium” is misused to justify police brutality

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Carotid Physiology and Neck Restraints in Law Enforcement
Why Neurologists Need to Make Their Voices Heard

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Innocent Californians have been mauled by police dogs. Weak legislation doesn’t fix issue

Physicians Should Not Be Censored for Discussing the Medical Devastation in Gaza

Biased Questions Derail Interviews For Medical Residency

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End the use of “excited delirium” as a cause of death in police custody

Larry Nassar Isn't the Only Doctor to Molest Patients. We Need to do More to Stop it.

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Medicine Must Plan to Protect Immigrant Patients and Their Families

Hospitals as places of sanctuary

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