Monroe Dispatch - No Struggle, No Progress

Undecided About Getting Vaccinated for COVID-19? Please consider: In getting vaccinated and protecting yourself, you also protect your family, friends, co-workers, and even people you don't know; If enough people get vaccinated, we will have herd...

Continued from last week- Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a group of inherited (genetic) disorders of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin moves oxygen throughout our bodies. The first one of these diseases, Sickle Cell Anemia was discovered in this country 110...

So what's all the fuss about Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) being on the map now? Well we are less than two months away from the election so that may have something to do with it. The White House recently elevated the importance of SCD as a health issue...

In Public Health Too? In the June 4 – June 10, 2020 edition of The Monroe Dispatch (see Racism in America: A Public Health Crisis, page 10), I stated that top public health officials are calling racism a public health crisis. By the time the ink had...

The events that have unfolded in the past two weeks in our country are unprecedented: another senseless killing of a Black man, George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police; an uprising on the part of people of many colors protesting the...