Despite National Decline, Native People Continue to Lead Deaths in Overdoses, Suicide, and Alcohol

Deaths from alcohol, drug overdoses, and suicide declined significantly across the United States for the first time since ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Domestic violence in Native communities is focus of new survey

Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, recalled a Native mother in her 30s who started having memory loss and other dementia-like symptoms. The woman had suffered multiple ...
Forbes

From Financial Barriers To Breakthroughs: How Native CDFIs Are Changing The Game

For too long, Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian communities have faced an uphill battle to financial inclusion—shut out by geographic isolation, systemic barriers and a lack of ...
CNN

Native American leaders say layoffs and benefit lapses are making this shutdown more painful for Native communities

Native American leaders warned senators last week that mass layoffs and potential benefit lapses are making this government shutdown more painful for their communities and insisted that the federal ...
Healio

An ‘asterisk population’: Poor data complicate maternal health research for Native women

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . American Indian and Alaska Native women have some of the highest rates of maternal death and morbidity in the ...
Scientific American

The Power of Storytelling in Medicine

This article is part of “Innovations In: RSV,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from MSD, Sanofi and AstraZeneca. Abigail Echo-Hawk believes in the ...