After decades of neglecting women athletes, sport and exercise medicine is finally catching up
When cyclist Alison Tetrick joined the sport’s professional ranks, she received the perks that come…
Category: data
Opinion: Listen: The coercion built into medical privacy consent forms
Alex Rosenblat is particularly careful when it comes to her digital privacy. She requests to…
STAT+: The CEO of 23andMe says people are willing to share health data — if ‘treated like adults’
When it comes to personal health information, many people are actually willing to share their…
Opinion: Do masks work? Randomized controlled trials are the worst way to answer the question
Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, before we had vaccines and effective medical procedures, the only…
STAT+: Oracle’s Cerner Enviza launches a new effort to use AI to study asthma drug safety
Cerner Enviza is partnering with health care AI company John Snow Labs to develop artificial…
Opinion: I declined to share my medical data with advertisers at my doctor’s office. One company claimed otherwise
I care deeply about privacy, and as a professional researcher, I take meticulous notes. During…
STAT+: Cerebral and other telehealth startups face new legal and regulatory challenges over ad models
A potential class-action lawsuit against troubled digital prescribing startup Cerebral raises crucial questions about whether…
Opinion: Death by missing data: Uncollected racial and ethnic pandemic data will drive inequities for decades to come
At every stage of the Covid-19 pandemic, national reporting of racial and ethnic disparities in…
Opinion: Health record interoperability needs to include dental health records
As 2023 begins, health care providers in the United States must make health records more…
Opinion: Better information on sexual orientation and gender identity is needed to improve LGBTQ+ health
Over the past three years, many Americans learned more about epidemiology than they ever knew…
STAT+: ‘Apples to apples’: How new health data rules could hold providers accountable
Last year, medical records opened up to patients. This year, they’re opening up to the…
Getting ahead of ‘tsunami’ of chronic disease will require data and creativity, experts say
Chronic disease is omnipresent in the United States. Trillions of dollars are devoted to and…
STAT+: UPMC, Advocate Aurora, Duke fighting lawsuits over use of Meta’s tracking tool
Five months after a media investigation revealed that hospitals were feeding Meta sensitive patient information…
Opinion: Real-time data are needed to monitor health after disasters
Weather-related disasters like the millions of Floridians left without power by Hurricane Ian or the…
STAT+: How experts think we can put health data back ‘in the hands of the patient’
Two decades ago, the Bush administration threw a wrench in health data privacy, making it…
Opinion: STAT+: The need for regulatory grade evidence: Are you in the stadium or the sandbox?
As real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE) continue to share the limelight in pharmacoepidemiologic…
Virtual Event: Can We Share Health Data and Not Be Evil?
Editor’s note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….
Opinion: Monkeypox vaccine: a case study for real-world data
With health emergencies becoming more common, the world needs more efficient ways to test the…
STAT+: How a tool to map computer viruses came to power biology research
When mathematicians Leland McInnes and John Healy walked into their work’s annual “Big Dig” —…
U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutive decline
Americans born in 2021 can expect to live for just 76.1 years — the lowest…