Health Disparities

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How medicine erased Black women from a ‘white man’s disease’

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Watch: A rebel with a cause: As a mentor and a leader, this Black orthopedic surgeon fights to diversify his field

A STAT Investigation By Usha Lee McFarling

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The whitest specialty: As medicine strives to close its diversity gaps, one field remains a stubborn outlier

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Despite interventions, Black and Hispanic men are contracting HIV at the same rates as 10 years ago

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In AI development, equality starts with a mandate for fairness and inclusivity

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The staggering toll of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth

First Opinion By Andrew Dreyfus and Sandhya Rao

Health plans, insurers need to make addressing racial inequities in health care part of their core work

First Opinion By Gary Shapiro

Broadband access: Health care’s newest challenge

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A patient and a nephrologist on how using race in kidney testing puts lives at risk

First Opinion By Anand Swaminathan, Utibe R. Essien and Esther Choo

Molnupiravir: another Covid-19 treatment, another opportunity to recognize inequity

First Opinion By Glenda V. Roberts

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First Opinion By Kim Smith-Whitley

For people with sickle cell disease, add check-ins to checkups

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Listen: A Filipinx physician on health disparities disguised by data

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Health disparities for Filipinxs in health care are disguised by data aggregation

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In ‘Unequal Cities,’ authors aim to debunk the idea that genetics, rather than racism, causes health disparities

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‘Information alone is not enough’: New Jackson Heart Study leader commits to putting research into action

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STAT+ Conversation: How medicine’s biggest journals are confronting racism

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Expert panel recommends against use of race in assessment of kidney function

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How medicine erased Black women from a ‘white man’s disease’

Watch: A rebel with a cause: As a mentor and a leader, this Black orthopedic surgeon fights to diversify his field

Orthopedic surgeons pride themselves on fixing things. Can they fix their own field’s lack of diversity?

The whitest specialty: As medicine strives to close its diversity gaps, one field remains a stubborn outlier

Despite interventions, Black and Hispanic men are contracting HIV at the same rates as 10 years ago

In AI development, equality starts with a mandate for fairness and inclusivity

The staggering toll of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth

Health plans, insurers need to make addressing racial inequities in health care part of their core work

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Listen: A patient and a nephrologist on how using race in kidney testing puts lives at risk

Molnupiravir: another Covid-19 treatment, another opportunity to recognize inequity

Understanding my racial heritage — thanks, Ancestry.com — could have gotten me a kidney transplant earlier

For people with sickle cell disease, add check-ins to checkups

Listen: A Filipinx physician on health disparities disguised by data

Health disparities for Filipinxs in health care are disguised by data aggregation

In ‘Unequal Cities,’ authors aim to debunk the idea that genetics, rather than racism, causes health disparities

‘Information alone is not enough’: New Jackson Heart Study leader commits to putting research into action

Listen: Health equity ‘tourism,’ an $11B biopharma acquisition, & a bony Covid protest

STAT+ Conversation: How medicine’s biggest journals are confronting racism

Expert panel recommends against use of race in assessment of kidney function

‘It’s never one-size-fits all’: Health tech leaders look to design to make care more equitable

‘Delta has been brutal’: Covid-19 variant is decimating rural areas already reeling from the pandemic

A hospital, and a family, lost during the pandemic

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