Watch: A rebel with a cause: As a mentor and a leader, this Black orthopedic surgeon fights to diversify his field
A rare Black orthopedic surgeon in an overwhelmingly white specialty, Eric Carson has spent decades…
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Orthopedic surgeons pride themselves on fixing things. Can they fix their own field’s lack of diversity?
This is part two of a STAT investigation on the lack of diversity in orthopedic…
The whitest specialty: As medicine strives to close its diversity gaps, one field remains a stubborn outlier
Erica Taylor has a pedigree seemingly built for orthopedic surgery. She comes from National Football…
In Minneapolis, home to George Floyd, heavy policing is tied to higher rates of preterm births
The longstanding toll of police violence on Black communities came into sharp relief last year…
7 policies in Biden’s spending plan aimed at health equity
WASHINGTON — Democrats have made big promises to tackle racial inequities across society, including in…
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Despite interventions, Black and Hispanic men are contracting HIV at the same rates as 10 years ago
Despite numerous advances in the prevention of HIV, new data show that the rate of…
Opinion: In AI development, equality starts with a mandate for fairness and inclusivity
What are the most important ethical considerations for artificial intelligence (AI) in health care? The…
Opinion: The staggering toll of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth
In conversations about the woeful state of maternal care in the United States — pregnancy-related…
Opinion: The U.S. needs to engage communities around BIPOC data
Nearly 170 years ago, a physician who had been born into a poor family used…
Opinion: Health plans, insurers need to make addressing racial inequities in health care part of their core work
Health care companies and organizations across the country are grappling with health inequities, spurred by…
Opinion: Broadband access: Health care’s newest challenge
The past two years have underscored the long-standing but always disturbing reality that millions of…
Opinion: Listen: A patient and a nephrologist on how using race in kidney testing puts lives at risk
Ever since medicine adopted a race-based formula to assess kidney health in the mid-2000s, some…
Not all Covid waves look the same. Here’s a snapshot of the Delta surge
At first, Joyce Dombrouski thought it might just be some kind of blip. Maybe it…
Opinion: Molnupiravir: another Covid-19 treatment, another opportunity to recognize inequity
The Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected communities of color and those with lower socioeconomic means,…
Opinion: Had I done Ancestry.com sooner, I could have gotten a kidney transplant two years earlier
For the past few years, experts have criticized — and defended — the use of…
Opinion: For people with sickle cell disease, add check-ins to checkups
Among the many lessons the Covid-19 pandemic has taught society are that individual behaviors matter;…
Opinion: Listen: A Filipinx physician on health disparities disguised by data
When data shows that Asian Americans are faring better during the pandemic than other racial…
Opinion: Health disparities for Filipinxs in health care are disguised by data aggregation
As some nurses across the country choose to stop working rather than comply with vaccine…
In ‘Unequal Cities,’ authors aim to debunk the idea that genetics, rather than racism, causes health disparities
As Chicago-based health equity researchers, Maureen Benjamins and Fernando De Maio have long been interested…
‘Information alone is not enough’: New Jackson Heart Study leader commits to putting research into action
There’s a reason why the nation’s largest and longest-running study of cardiovascular disease in African…
Listen: Health equity ‘tourism,’ an $11B biopharma acquisition, & a bony Covid protest
An $11 billion biopharma acquisition. Health equity “tourism.” And, where can you buy a 12-foot…
STAT+: STAT+ Conversation: How medicine’s biggest journals are confronting racism
Editor’s note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….
‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities
Fueled by the massive health disparities exposed by the coronavirus pandemic and the racial reckoning…
‘Delta has been brutal’: Covid-19 variant is decimating rural areas already reeling from the pandemic
Health inequities in rural communities across the South are continuing to determine who is most…
A hospital, and a family, lost during the pandemic
DAWSON, Ga. — When the days feel too hard, Latasha Taylor finds peace standing…
A community pioneer lost, and remembered
BELLE GLADE, Fla. — It was the first day of the new year when Angela…
The land as medicine
HALE COUNTY, Ala. — Small, cramped trailer homes and old farmhouses can be glimpsed…
The Guardian of the Glades
PAHOKEE, Fla. — The semitruck carrying all of the food was late. Tammy Jackson-Moore…
DISTANCED: Pandemic stories of Black life in the rural South
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Black children have more complications during appendectomies and incur higher costs, study shows
Black children consistently have more medical complications during appendectomies than their white peers, including higher…
A conversation with Bill Gates on how public health has fared in the midst of the pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has, of course, been devastating over the past year. But by other…
Opinion: Covid-19 booster shot distribution must learn from vaccine roll-out mistakes
With news that Covid-19 booster shots are in Americans’ imminent future, the chaos and uncertainty…
Opinion: The pandemic made clear who doesn’t get to breathe clean air. Now what?
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed deep-seated inequities in everything from safe working conditions and affordable health…
Opinion: STAT+: To ensure equity and accuracy, clinical research must reflect the diversity of patients
In the journey from lab to label for a new and promising treatment, clinical research…
Opinion: Responsible AI: leveraging data and technology to counteract bias
Left unchecked, algorithmic approaches can perpetuate bias in health care. Implementing responsible AI can help…
Opinion: Smoothing the path to fighting food insecurity
Many Americans take good nutrition for granted. They shouldn’t. Hunger is a growing problem in the…
Virtual event: The next battles in the war against HIV
Despite many strides in treatment and prevention, the HIV epidemic continues and disproportionately impacts women…
Opinion: Pharmacoequity: a new goal for ending disparities in U.S. health care
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the public’s attention alarming racial disparities in health. According…
Opinion: On menthol cigarettes, social justice theory shouldn’t trump science
This year, 45,000 Black Americans will die from tobacco-related illnesses. The same number will likely…
Opinion: Medicine needs to see what disability means, looks like, and feels like — in its ranks and in its patients
Licensers, employers, and others have asked about my status: disabled or not disabled? The first…
When Covid first hit, prostate cancer surgeries fell much more for Black men than white men
Last year’s lockdown during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic erased cancer surgery from…
In the same health system, Black patients are prescribed fewer opioids than white patients
Inequities in health care are pervasive, from access to quality of care, and a new…
Opinion: Sickle cell disease and a pivotal moment to end health inequality
Covid-19 laid bare the long-standing vulnerability of minority and low-income communities in U.S. society and…
Opinion: Listen: An OB-GYN on the maternal mortality crisis in the U.S.
Why do more women die in and after childbirth in the U.S. than in any…
Opinion: Managed care’s role in protecting women from childbirth-related complications
The coronavirus pandemic brought the importance of public health to the forefront of national attention….
Opinion: Uterine fibroids affect millions of women. Why has this condition been overlooked for decades?
In 2007, the late Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio) wrote an op-ed calling for passage…
Opinion: The Covid-19 relief bill created 1,000 more residency slots for new doctors. Wealthy hospitals should be last in line to get them
The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that President Biden signed into law in March includes…
Opinion: Health care is a human right in times of crisis. Why not every day?
Much of the world has settled the matter of whether health care ought to be…
Watch: An unusual 30th birthday gift: Why I got a colonoscopy so young — and documented every step
The passing of Chadwick Boseman from colorectal cancer at the age of 43 devastated so…
Chadwick Boseman’s tragedy is America’s tragedy: In colorectal cancer hot spots, young men are dying at higher rates
Three months before “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman died from stage 4 colon cancer at…