Placebo response reveals unconscious bias among white patients toward female, Black physicians
The doctor-patient relationship is an important part of helping and healing. But it can be…
Category: patients
Opinion: A national patient ID is essential for patient safety
Misidentifying patients can have tragic consequences. Numerous catastrophic cases and near misses have been collected…
Opinion: New report: gains in patient safety have stalled over the past decade
Hospital care helps patients recover from serious illness and injury but, all too often, patients…
Language barriers keep parents from asking questions about their children’s care, study finds
Handoffs are one of the most dangerous times in a patient’s care: As one team…
Opinion: Understanding long Covid will take the lived experiences of long haulers
I went from training for the Big Sur 21-miler to barely being able to climb…
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…
If Roe is overturned, the ripples could affect IVF and genetic testing of embryos, experts warn
Through their foundation, Allie LaForce and Joe Smith have so far helped families have 17…
‘How do you decide?’: Cancer treatment’s CAR-T crisis has patients dying on a wait list
Within two years of being diagnosed with multiple myeloma, Shawn Goltzene had blasted through nearly…
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…
Top privacy researchers urge the health care industry to safeguard patient data
Patient data might be the biggest business you’ve never heard of. As a STAT investigation…
STAT+: How a complex web of businesses turned private health records from GE into a lucrative portrait of patients
It was supposed to be a routine client meeting. Instead, one of GE Healthcare’s largest…
Opinion: Omitting long Covid from pandemic messaging is harmful for public health
Public health messaging about Covid-19 has focused almost exclusively on hospitalizations and deaths. The omission…
Daily aspirin offers little to no benefit for most adults trying to prevent heart disease, new report says
Taking low-dose aspirin every day to prevent a heart attack or stroke provides little to…
Opinion: How hospitals and health systems can help patients avoid medical debt
While the goal of the American health care system is to improve health and well-being,…
What science journalism can’t tell us about Covid-19 deaths
In the first piece of science journalism I ever wrote, I compared deciphering the effects…
For kids with Down syndrome, a new device offers hope for treating difficult sleep problems
Kate Dougherty pairs all of her son Eliot’s doctor’s appointments with a treat, like a…
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Health systems are using machine learning to predict high-cost care. Will it help patients?
Health systems and payers eager to trim costs think the answer lies in a small…
At small and rural hospitals, ransomware attacks are causing unprecedented crises
At 12:08 p.m. on a Monday, a Sky Lakes Medical Center employee tapped an email…
Opinion: Averting the looming purge of people from Medicaid
Up to 16 million Americans on Medicaid, the federal-state program that provides health care to…
STAT+: A new crop of companies is reshaping the health data economy
It is one of health care’s most vexing quandaries: Patient data must be shared to…
Opinion: Listen: Should gender dysphoria be a required stop en route to gender euphoria?
For trans people who want to receive gender-affirming medical care such as hormone treatments or…
Opinion: Home care instead of hospital care: Congress should extend a crucial waiver
Hospitals can be places of healing and, at times, harm, particularly for older adults with…
STAT+: When a dire text message interrupted his talk, this doctor’s cancer research became painfully real
SAN DIEGO — If you’d seen him, you wouldn’t have known Scott Lippman was living…
STAT+: Hospital prices are soaring especially fast in Northern California. Here’s why
California’s lawmakers have spent decades crafting well-intentioned rules designed to keep the state’s healthcare prices…
As research grows on primary care and serious mental illness, a glaring gap remains
Laura Brown knows that she has high cholesterol, and that as someone who lives with…
Afghan refugees, grappling with grief and trauma, face barriers to mental health care
WASHINGTON — For 17-year-old Salek Haseer, video games are an escape. They’re a way, however fleeting,…
Opinion: Private equity, health care, and profits: It’s time to protect patients
In his State of the Union address, President Biden expressed concern with the growing —…
Listen: Medicine lost the trust of many Black Americans. How can it be restored?
In fall 2020, I reported a story about two HBCU presidents in New Orleans who…
Opinion: Welcome back, Dr. Califf: Patients will see you now
The confirmation of Robert Califf to lead the Food and Drug Administration is among the…
At HIMSS, health software companies get creative to sell data sharing
ORLANDO — Of all the health tech industry’s top priorities, interoperability is among the driest. It’s…
Doctors often turn to Google Translate to talk to patients. They want a better option
The patient had just undergone a cesarean section, and now was struggling to put words…
STAT+: Patients are flocking back to hospitals, but volumes are at the mercy of Covid surges, new documents show
Hospitals and outpatient clinics filled up with patients early last year, as vaccines and the…
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,…
Widespread screening catches more cases of depression. But follow-up care still falls far short
In a routine checkup, a primary care physician like Lucinda Leung asks all the patients…
As providers are accused of interfering with access to patient data, pressure builds on government to act
Patients, lawyers, developers, and others across the country have lodged more than 250 federal complaints…
New research casts doubt on a cornerstone of thyroid cancer treatment
For decades, radiation has been a cornerstone of thyroid cancer care. But it may soon…
How often is breast cancer overdiagnosed? New research suggests false alarms are less common than once thought
Catching cancer early in a mammogram can be life-saving — smaller tumors are easier to…
Opinion: The No Surprises Act: Beyond the emergency department, a silver lining of patient engagement
When I was pregnant with my first child, I needed a prenatal test that could…
Opinion: My son will be fine, she told the doctors, because he is the Lord God Jesus Christ
Editor’s note: This essay, initially published a year before the emergence of the global coronavirus…
STAT+: It’s the cardiovascular version of Alzheimer’s — and, for a biotech with a promising drug, it could be a windfall
Surprise diagnoses have a way of making Ph.D. candidates out of everyday people. Walter Feigenson’s…
Take a deep breath: Asthma drug study failed to include Black and Puerto Rican children who could benefit most
If a drug maker tested an asthma treatment in children and found it significantly reduced…
Opinion: It’s time to open up health care’s secret analytics
Each year as older adults begin choosing between traditional fee-for-service Medicare and Medicare Advantage, they…
Patients and doctors are clashing about side effects of hormonal birth control
When a pediatrician put Maya Prokupets on the birth control pill at age 15 to…
With winter looming, cancer patients and doctors seek more Covid protection
Michele Nadeem-Baker is steeling herself for another winter. Diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in 2012,…
Opinion: Lessons from the inverted paradiddle can help telehealth move forward
By day I run a health care company. At night and on weekends I play…
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Opinion: Personalized medicine goes far beyond genetics
Since the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, most public considerations of personalized medicine…
Opinion: It’s time for individuals — not doctors or companies — to own their health data
Health data should be like a mountain stream, flowing in a single direction with a…
STAT+: STAT+ Conversation: Pain and Promise: Examining a Fibromyalgia Blood Test
Editor’s note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….
STAT+: In a sea of skeptics, this physician was one of fibromyalgia patients’ few true allies. Or was he?
Cindy Bradley-Graziadei almost didn’t take the test. By the time she saw it advertised, in…
Black women die earlier and more often of breast cancer. Should they be screened sooner?
For years, health experts have recommended that, starting at the age of 50, every woman…