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Health Disparities

Health disparities are the result of differences in access to healthcare, quality of care and other social determinants of health. They can be caused by a variety of factors, including race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status and geography.

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Health tech Usha Lee McFarling and Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA misses target date for releasing recommendations to make pulse oximeters more equitable

Health Anil Oza

Why do Black Americans get more aggressive cancers?

A STAT Investigation Katie Palmer

STAT Plus: Embedded Bias: AI threatens to cement racial bias in clinical algorithms. Could it also chart a path forward?

A STAT Investigation Usha Lee McFarling

Embedded Bias: A race-free algorithm is merely the start for a safety net hospital confronting an onslaught of kidney disease

A STAT Investigation Usha Lee McFarling

Embedded Bias: She was told she might have cancer: How medicine pathologizes Black patients’ normal test results

A STAT Investigation Katie Palmer

Embedded Bias: Upending a longstanding paradigm, cardiologists embrace ZIP codes, not race, to predict heart risk

A STAT Investigation Usha Lee McFarling and Katie Palmer

Embedded Bias: Inside the bruising battle to purge race from a kidney disease calculator

A STAT Investigation Usha Lee McFarling and Katie Palmer

Embedded bias: How race became ubiquitous in medical decision-making tools

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Morning Rounds Theresa Gaffney

A STAT Investigation: Embedded Bias

Morning Rounds Theresa Gaffney

Glucose monitors, mpox vaccine inequity and effects of LGBTQ+ restrictions

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First Opinion Deborah M. Stein and Robert V. O'Toole

Aspirin after a broken bone: health equity in a $5 bottle

Morning Rounds Brittany Trang

Morning Rounds: Another Ebola outbreak?

Health Angus Chen

Scientists are starting to uncover how neighborhood can affect the biology of cancer

First Opinion Staja “Star” Booker

When life mirrors research: What a fall on the ice taught me about being Black and in pain

First Opinion Sanjay Basu

Cost-effectiveness of health interventions may be perpetuating health disparities. Here’s how to fix that

First Opinion Amy West

ACL tears in women: Too many injuries and too little research

Health Usha Lee McFarling

VA disputes claim that removing race from lung tests would greatly alter disability payments

In the Lab Angus Chen

Bone marrow donors needn’t be perfect match, study says, paving way for more equitable access

First Opinion Eugene Declercq

Unsettling truths about maternal mortality in the U.S.

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Why is eugenics still alive and well in scientific publishing?

First Opinion Annette Ansong, Rachel Bond, and Tiffany Powell-Wiley

Medicare’s Part D policy is blocking progress needed to achieve Black health equity

Health Usha Lee McFarling

National Academies proposes reimagining health care to fix ‘fundamental flaws’ that underlie inequity

In the Lab Alia Sajani

How a Baltimore neuroscience study is rewriting Black America’s relationship with medical research

First Opinion Cheryl R. Clark

It’s been 60 years since Freedom Summer, yet the fight for affordable, compassionate, and equitable health care is still going on

Exclusive John Wilkerson

NIH wanted to make cancer research more diverse. The effort turned out to be a costly failure

First Opinion Jayasree K. Iyer

Obesity drugs pose a big challenge for health care equity

Special Report Anissa Durham

New obesity drugs are seemingly everywhere. Black Americans feel left out

Special Report Anissa Durham

Black voices, Black bodies: Life in the age of Ozempic

In the Lab Angus Chen

Black Americans’ risk for breast cancer gains clarity in analysis of 40,000 genomes