Health Disparities

Health By Priyanka Runwal

After a breast cancer diagnosis, many Black women face barriers that delay their care

Health Tech By Erin Brodwin

Remote monitoring tools are increasingly popular. Here’s what stands in the way of their broader adoption

Health By Nicholas St. Fleur

Colorectal cancer screening should start five years earlier — at 45 — expert panel says

First Opinion By Parsa Erfani, Caroline Lee, and Nishant Uppal

Why isn’t routine Covid-19 testing happening in prisons and immigrant detention centers?

Health By Eric Boodman

He’s a recruiter for a Covid-19 vaccine trial. Can he overcome communities’ distrust — and his own mother’s?

Health By Gabrielle Glaser

Inequality ‘surrounds you’: A Black doctor returns to hard-hit Louisiana after treating and contracting Covid-19 in New York

Health By Pratibha Gopalakrishna

New research shows older adults are still often excluded from clinical trials

First Opinion By Panagis Galiatsatos and Erica Johnson

Medicine for the Greater Good: one hospital’s way of supporting its nearby communities of color

Health By Usha Lee McFarling

‘They are really afraid’: Fears about Covid-19 are complicating care for patients with sickle cell

Health Tech By STAT staff

AI could help rid health care of biases. It also might make them worse

First Opinion By Adam W. Gaffney, Steffie Woolhandler, and David U. Himmelstein

Are lung function algorithms perpetuating health disparities experienced by Black people?

Health Tech By Pratibha Gopalakrishna

How Lyft’s growing medical business is trying to close gaps in health care access

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

Immigration status, housing, and food-service work explain Covid-19’s burden on Latinos

First Opinion By Megan R. Mahoney

It’s time to stop using skin color and race in medicine and see patients for who they really are

The Readout LOUD By Adam Feuerstein, Damian Garde, and Rebecca Robbins

Covid-19 clinical trials are failing to enroll diverse populations, despite awareness efforts

Health By Casey Ross

Study finds racial bias in the government’s formula for distributing Covid-19 aid to hospitals

Health Tech By Juliet Isselbacher

Telemedicine is booming — but many people still face huge barriers to virtual care

Health By Juliet Isselbacher

Nearly half of low-income communities have no ICU beds in their area

First Opinion By Michelle D. Holmes

Black lives depend on the U.S. dietary guidelines. Don’t water them down

First Opinion By Jocelyn Ashford

Clinical trials need to include more Black and other minority participants. Here’s how

Health By Usha Lee McFarling

Dermatology faces a reckoning: Lack of darker skin in textbooks and journals harms care for patients of color

First Opinion By Art Papier

To begin addressing racial bias in medicine, start with the skin

Health By Theresa Gaffney

Black children are more likely to die after surgery than white counterparts, new study finds

First Opinion By Jamar Slocum, Isabel Chen, and Natalie Kirilichin

Med students, physicians need social mission education now more than ever

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

In another Covid-19 disparity, Black and Hispanic Americans are dying at younger ages than white Americans