The glaring health equity gap in Democrats’ drug pricing plan
WASHINGTON — As Democrats close in on the biggest overhaul of the Medicare prescription drug…
Category: health disparities
A health equity expert on making monkeypox messaging more inclusive
The monkeypox outbreak that has spread around the world has disproportionately affected gay, bisexual, and…
Opinion: Addressing social drivers of health is a big opportunity for tech entrepreneurs
Some of the best business opportunities in health care will involve developing technologies that analyze…
Opinion: Lack of diversity in clinical trials costs billions of dollars. Incentives can spur innovation
The lack of diversity in clinical trials unfairly skews American medicine and costs billions of…
The trust-builder: a cancer center director’s try-it-all strategy for breaking the barriers between research and Black patients
TRIALS AND TRUST: This is the second part of a series on health equity and…
From low pay to workplace culture, obstacles litter the path to diversity in EMS
A single mother, Tashina Hosey quit her job at a Pittsburgh post office when she…
Opinion: I learned up close and personal about the necessity of improving diversity in clinical trials
As the biopharmaceutical industry places increased emphasis on improving the diversity of participants in clinical…
Opinion: The future of health care is here. When will it be everywhere?
To paraphrase Canadian-American speculative fiction writer William Gibson: The future of health care is already…
Two deadly days in St. Louis: An overdose cluster kills 8 Black people — and shows the new shape of the addiction crisis
ST. LOUIS — The calls for help poured in throughout the day: Overdose after overdose…
Opinion: Poorer nations need assurances of dedicated vaccine supplies before the next pandemic
Anyone wondering whether Covid-19 vaccines are making a difference to this deadly and persistent pandemic…
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As new variant spreads, a crucial drug to protect the most vulnerable goes vastly underused
Jennifer Padgett has spent 2 1/2 years terrified for her immunocompromised daughter, Hannah. Hannah catches…
Opinion: 6 ways to bolster FDA’s guidance for diversifying participation in clinical trials
It has been nearly 25 years since the Food and Drug Administration first issued guidance…
There aren’t nearly enough Native American physicians. A crash course in medicine seeks to change that
BOSTON — She’d just used a defibrillator to resuscitate a man whose heart had stopped,…
Opinion: Keep equity in mind when moving to value-based payment
Value-based care champions health and justice by focusing on outcomes rather than on units of…
It’s not just heat stroke. Extreme temperatures pose special risk to people with chronic illness (and that’s a lot of us)
A sweltering 112 degrees Fahrenheit in North Texas. 97 in Minneapolis. 103 in Nebraska. Nearly…
Opinion: New competencies on diversity, equity, and inclusion for medical education across the continuum
Turning students into competent physicians in just four years is a tall order. They have…
Apgar scores are less predictive of infant mortality for Black babies than white ones, study finds
A standard screening test given to newborns minutes after birth is a less accurate predictor…
Inaccurate pulse oximeter readings tied to less supplemental oxygen for darker-skinned ICU patients
Patients with darker skin who received less accurate readings of their oxygen levels using pulse…
Opinion: The accuracy of pulse oximeters shouldn’t depend on a person’s skin color
Covid-19 made pulse oximeters an even more important tool for measuring the amount of oxygen…
This clinical trial wanted to end breast cancer disparities. But first it needed to enroll Black women
TRIALS AND TRUST: This is the first part of a series on health equity and…
Opinion: Digital back doors can lead down the path to health inequity
For years, racism mandated that Black people and other people of color in the United…
Opinion: Needed: a clearer explanation of why diversity in clinical trials is important
Increasing the diversity of clinical trial participants is all the rage these days. The numbers…
Life expectancy for Native Americans has stagnated — even long before Covid
Native American and Alaska Native populations were the only Americans to see no increase whatsoever…
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Homeless and incarcerated people in Minnesota struggled to access Covid vaccines
Homeless and incarcerated people had significantly lower Covid vaccination rates than others in Minnesota, according…
Survey finds many Black cancer patients would consider clinical trials but aren’t offered the chance
CHICAGO — Nobody offered Stephanie Walker a clinical trial when she was diagnosed with metastatic…
Faulty oxygen readings delayed Covid treatments for darker-skinned patients, study finds
Covid-19 care, including distribution of lifesaving therapies, was significantly delayed for Black and Hispanic patients…
Opinion: Factoring in patients’ experiences is essential for moving the needle on health disparities
Three years ago, when cancer turned my life upside down, I never imagined I’d have…
Amazon accessibility researcher says inclusion of people with disabilities is ‘lacking’ in health tech
SAN FRANCISCO — Something as simple as getting a Covid-19 test can be complicated for…
National Academies report cites ‘urgent’ need to recruit more diverse participants for clinical trials
The persistent lack of diversity among participants in clinical trials is a critical issue that…
Firearm deaths and disparities both grew in pandemic’s first year
Guns were the weapons wielded in more than three-quarters of homicides in the U.S. during…
Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans should be screened at lower BMI for diabetes, study says
Widely used physician guidelines that ignore patients’ race and ethnicity could be doing more harm…
Opinion: Strengthening Gavi is a way forward for global vaccine equity
The Biden administration’s upcoming Covid-19 summit will shine a spotlight on the global failure to…
Study uncovers clues to rise in uterine cancer death rates
A rare but aggressive kind of uterine cancer appears to be driving an increase in…
Opinion: CMS needs to include measures for social drivers of health
Every day, physicians encounter patients in their practices who show the toll of skipping meals…
Opinion: Wearable device data need to represent all of us
The growing uptake of wearable devices has sparked enthusiasm among health researchers, and for good…
Opinion: Access to kidney transplantation is improving for everyone, but more work remains to be done
Organ donation and transplantation are saving more lives in the United States than ever before,…
Opinion: The organ procurement system is failing people of color like me. It’s time for reform
I am a Black woman who has been waiting for seven years for a kidney…
Opinion: Equal treatment for equal risk: Should race be included in allocation algorithms for Covid-19 therapies?
When the Omicron surge threatened to overwhelm hospitals and the number of infections greatly exceeded…
Opinion: Listen: Tom Sequist on mirrored Covid tragedies — 2,000 miles apart
Like many of us, Tom Sequist had no idea what was about to happen as…
Covid-19 pandemic isn’t over for Black Americans, report warns
A searing report released Tuesday by the Black Coalition Against COVID details the immense toll…
Opinion: HHS’s failure to address the health harms of climate crisis constitutes environmental and institutional racism
The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination against recipients of federal funding, including those covered…
Opinion: Unexpectedly united: The parallel plights of two communities 2,000 miles apart wracked by the pandemic
I constantly straddle two disparate worlds. One is in Boston, where I work for one…
STAT+: She was told ‘girls don’t do that.’ Now Margaret-Mary Wilson is a top executive at UnitedHealth Group
Long before she became a top executive at UnitedHealth Group, back in her native Nigeria,…
STAT+: Cutting-edge gene therapies could be coming for sickle cell. Will Medicaid patients be able to access them?
Gary Puckrein sees a dilemma coming that has him excited, and at the same time,…
Prisons skimp on Covid treatments like Paxlovid, even as Biden plans to flood pharmacies with it
WASHINGTON – Pfizer’s antiviral drug Paxlovid seems tailor-made for combatting Covid-19 in prisons: It doesn’t…
Opinion: Improving diversity in Alzheimer’s research can help update the ‘gold standard’ for all medical research
The health inequities that have long plagued the U.S. were highlighted and worsened by the…
Listen: Medical racism, new Covid vaccines, & the resilience of Regeneron
How many Covid-19 vaccines does the world really need? What will it take to address…
The nation hasn’t made much progress on health equity. These leaders forged ahead anyway
This special report is the second of two parts. Read part one here. When Quinn…
Opinion: Recognizing obesity as a disease, not a choice, is a step toward health equity
When the American Medical Association recognized obesity as a disease in 2013, doctors and other…
How medicine erased Black women from a ‘white man’s disease’
What Christi Taylor-Gentry remembers most about third grade are the times when the teaching stopped…