Opinion: Racial disparities in Covid-19 are bad. They’re even worse in cancer
The currents of the racial justice movement and the Covid-19 pandemic have amplified persistent and…
Category: health disparities
New cancer patients — especially Black people — are more susceptible to severe Covid-19 infections
Recently diagnosed cancer patients are more vulnerable to Covid-19 infection and face more severe illness…
‘There absolutely will be a black market’: How the rich and privileged can skip the line for Covid-19 vaccines
Bill Lang didn’t get much of a break over Thanksgiving. Almost every day last week,…
Opinion: Better collection, reporting of race and ethnicity data are essential for fighting Covid-19
This year has challenged Americans to confront their understanding of society and to start rewriting…
Opinion: The shameful abundance of birth- and pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S.
The U.S. spends more on health care than any other wealthy nation. Yet, more people…
Pharma trade group issues guidelines for improving diversity of clinical trial participants
The pharmaceutical industry’s largest lobbying organization released guidelines on Tuesday to enhance racial and ethnic…
New research shows older adults are still often excluded from clinical trials
For years, researchers have called out a glaring gap in many clinical trials: Despite having…
Opinion: Medicine for the Greater Good: one hospital’s way of supporting its nearby communities of color
The violent police attacks on Jacob Blake, George Floyd, and far too many others, along…
Opinion: How the CDC and others are failing Black women during childbirth
The alarming number of deaths of Black women during childbirth and soon afterward once gained…
‘They are really afraid’: Fears about Covid-19 are complicating care for patients with sickle cell
Last November, just as the novel coronavirus was beginning its deadly trajectory through China, the…
AI could help rid health care of biases. It also might make them worse
Hospitals and health care companies are increasingly tapping experimental artificial intelligence tools to improve medical…
Opinion: Are lung function algorithms perpetuating health disparities experienced by Black people?
“I can’t breathe” became a rallying cry against racism in the wake of the deaths…
How Lyft’s growing medical business is trying to close gaps in health care access
When Megan Callahan was weighing whether to join Lyft’s burgeoning health care business two years…
Millions of Americans carry the sickle cell trait, many without knowing it. Could they be at risk for severe Covid-19?
Sickle cell disease, which causes Covid-like symptoms — clotting, strokes, and severe oxygen deprivation — …
With science and scripture, a Baltimore pastor is fighting Covid-19 vaccine skepticism
Terris King is finally back at Liberty Grace Church of God, surrounded by its familiar…
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Immigration status, housing, and food-service work explain Covid-19’s burden on Latinos
A new analysis of one state’s Covid-19 data lays bare some of the reasons behind…
Opinion: It’s time to stop using skin color and race in medicine and see patients for who they really are
My parents fell in love at a time when their union was illegal in 16…
Covid-19 clinical trials are are failing to enroll diverse populations, despite awareness efforts
It’s been well-established that Covid-19, at least in the United States, has disproportionately affected people…
Study finds racial bias in the government’s formula for distributing Covid-19 aid to hospitals
The federal government has systematically shortchanged communities with large Black populations in the distribution of…
Telemedicine is booming — but many people still face huge barriers to virtual care
As Covid-19 drives many patients away from in-person care and toward virtual visits, experts warn…
Nearly half of low-income communities have no ICU beds in their area
As Covid-19 continues to strain the country’s hospital system, new research exposes a striking gap…
Opinion: Black lives depend on the U.S. dietary guidelines. Don’t water them down
Most Americans know about the Dietary Guidelines for Americans primarily through their colorful representations: the…
Opinion: Clinical trials need to include more Black and other minority participants. Here’s how
The Covid-19 pandemic and the disproportionate devastation it has wrought on Black, Hispanic, and poor…
Dermatology faces a reckoning: Lack of darker skin in textbooks and journals harms care for patients of color
When dermatologist Jenna Lester learned that rashes on skin and toes were a symptom of…
Opinion: To begin addressing racial bias in medicine, start with the skin
“Until the color of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the color…
Black children are more likely to die after surgery than white counterparts, new study finds
Even among apparently healthy children, Black patients are almost three and a half times more…
Opinion: Med students, physicians need social mission education now more than ever
A longstanding failure of the U.S. health care system is that minority and vulnerable populations…
In another Covid-19 disparity, Black and Hispanic Americans are dying at younger ages than white Americans
Long after calls for more data on the disproportionate number of Covid-19 infections and deaths…
Opinion: To thrive, Black and Latinx physicians need their communities
I was working at the nurses’ station in the emergency department when the elderly man…
The pandemic has exacerbated an under-the-radar health disparity: period poverty
Taniya Bennett made it through the early stages of the pandemic. But as protests started…
Tech giants are well-positioned to help close racial gaps in health. They have little to show for it
As the nation confronts a reckoning over racial inequality, tech giants — with their vast…
In a new hospital ranking, doing good counts nearly as much as doing well
You won’t find the usual suspects like Massachusetts General Hospital or the Mayo Clinic at…
In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic
This is one in a series of reports from hospitals responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. The hospital’s…
Opinion: Unless it’s done carefully, the rise of telehealth could widen health disparities
The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed telehealth — the remote provision of health care resources, tools,…
Opinion: Treatment barriers create racial disparities in cancer care. They need to come down
Every American is entitled to equitable access to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness….
As Covid-19 devastates communities of color, the government’s minority health experts are conspicuously quiet
WASHINGTON — Four months into a pandemic that has disproportionately devastated Black, Latino, and Native…
Racial bias skews algorithms widely used to guide care from heart surgery to birth, study finds
Decision aids that U.S. physicians use to guide patient care on everything from who receives…
To understand who’s dying of Covid-19, look to social factors like race more than preexisting diseases
While early studies of who was dying of Covid-19 identified risks such as obesity and…
One of biotech’s biggest conferences grapples with how to talk about race and identity
If you’re trying to explain systemic racism to a group of scientists and biotech professionals,…
Activists, artists, and public health academics collaborate to tackle racism’s impact on heath
As it became clear that Covid-19 was disproportionately infecting and killing people of color in…
For Black youth, a time of upheaval takes a toll on mental health
From his room in Los Angeles, Cecil Hannibal worries about his grandmother getting Covid-19 every…
23andMe says it’s ‘part of the problem’ on racial inequity. We asked geneticists what the company can do about it
At the consumer genetics giant 23andMe, CEO Anne Wojcicki last week issued a remarkable statement…
Opinion: To allocate remdesivir fairly, give it to communities that bear a disproportionate burden of Covid-19
As the federal government haphazardly distributed remdesivir, Gilead Sciences’ repurposed antiviral drug, to some of…
‘The direct result of racism’: Covid-19 lays bare how discrimination drives health disparities among Black people
The disparities have long been documented. Black people are more likely than white people to…
Females are still routinely left out of biomedical research — and ignored in analyses of data
If you think biomedical scientists are doing a better job studying both biological sexes in…
Opinion: Beyond words: medical institutions must act to support black lives
Oleoresin capsicum spray, better known as pepper spray, is a chemical weapon made from concentrated…
Opinion: Physician advocacy against police brutality: #ThisIsOurLaneToo
Last week we found ourselves sharing yet again — first with anger, then with despair…
Opinion: Racism: The contagion in health care we need to eradicate
The virus persists in the bloodstream for years, often spanning generations. The warning signs aren’t…
Opinion: My nightmare: Covid-19 meets racism meets the killing of a Black American by police
This is my nightmare: Covid-19 meets racism meets the killing of yet another Black person…
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When hard data are ‘heartbreaking’: Testing blitz in San Francisco shows Covid-19 struck mostly low-wage workers
Early in the coronavirus outbreak, as the first infected patients trickled into Zuckerberg San Francisco…