‘Science is just rocketing forward’: A Q&A with former NIH director Francis Collins
LOS ANGELES — Francis Collins stepped down from his position as head of the National…
Category: racism
Opinion: UpToDate has a racism problem. Its name is Dr. Stanley Goldfarb
The University of Pennsylvania’s Division of Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension recently made a quiet update to…
Opinion: Hospital financing in black and white
During our training as doctors, we have rotated through safety-net hospitals, elite academic medical centers,…
Opinion: Breaking the ‘corporate medical playbook’ that silences physicians’ reports of inequity
As a woman of color who was fortunate to be accepted to medical school 29…
‘So much more to do’: A hospital system’s campaign to confront racism — and resistance to change — makes early strides
BOSTON — When a routine cancer screening came back showing an elevated PSA reading, George…
Opinion: Addressing institutional trauma in health care: the case for a structured ethical framework
In recent years, many health care professionals have been confronting the challenging chapters of their…
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…
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…
Vertus Hardiman and the medical tragedies that must not be forgetten
Vertus Hardiman wore a wig for more than 70 years. His hair piece concealed a…
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…
What will it take to level the playing field for Black residents?
This is part two of a STAT investigation on the dismissal of Black doctors from…
Opinion: Hold science to higher standards on racism
Shortly before an 18-year-old white supremacist entered a supermarket in a Black neighborhood of Buffalo,…
‘It was stolen from me’: Black doctors are forced out of training programs at far higher rates than white residents
Rosandra Daywalker had always excelled. The daughter of Haitian and Jamaican parents in Miami —…
Opinion: Never forget that early vaccines came from testing on enslaved people
In response to the growing spread of monkeypox, public health leaders are for the first…
Listen: ‘Racism is America’s oldest algorithm’: How bias creeps into health care AI
Artificial intelligence and medical algorithms are deeply intertwined with our modern health care system. These…
A ‘city on fire’: How Miami shaped a disputed diagnosis used to justify deaths in police custody
One night in 2019, Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man in Colorado, was walking home…
Opinion: Substituting genetic ancestry for race in research? Not so fast
Race, widely used as a variable across biomedical research and medicine, is an appropriate proxy…
Listen: ‘Birthing while Black’ is an American crisis. Communities demand justice
In August of 2021, Denise Williams was rushed to Queens Hospital Center in New York…
Incoming JAMA editor says the journal’s issues handling race are ‘not unique to JAMA’
In her most pointed public comments since her selection as JAMA editor-in-chief, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo acknowledged…
Listen: Dismantling medical racism starts in the classroom
Medical education is in the midst of a revolution. Students and educators, fueled by the…
Opinion: The power of inclusion: Overturning the ‘white wall’ standard
Have you ever walked down a long hallway in a building and noticed the uniformity…
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…
Listen: How one 1910 report curtailed Black medical education for over a century
Medicine in America underwent a radical transformation in 1910. This was the year the Flexner…
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…
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: Gaslighting of Black medical trainees makes residency something to ‘survive’
Some say the lack of Black physicians is a pipeline problem, with too few Black…
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…
What racism in medicine takes from us
During my freshman year of college, Cornel West, the renowned philosopher, had been invited to…
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…
STAT+: STAT+ Conversation: The Whitest Medical Specialty
Editor’s note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded below at 2 p.m. ET….
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…
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…
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: 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…
Opinion: Listen: Revisiting Uché Blackstock on leaving academic medicine
This week, “First Opinion Podcast” returns to a conversation with emergency physician Uché Blackstock about…
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….
Expert panel recommends against use of race in assessment of kidney function
An expert task force on Thursday released a new and much-anticipated approach for diagnosing kidney…
‘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…
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: Responsible AI: leveraging data and technology to counteract bias
Left unchecked, algorithmic approaches can perpetuate bias in health care. Implementing responsible AI can help…
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…
NIH releases a plan to confront structural racism. Critics say it’s not enough
Saying structural racism is a chronic problem throughout biomedical research and within their own walls,…
A landmark Alzheimer’s drug approval would likely deepen racial inequities in dementia care
Come Monday, we should learn whether the Food and Drug Administration will approve the first…
Changing the equation: Researchers remove race from a calculator for childbirth
Since 2007, obstetricians have counseled patients planning to give birth after a previous C-section with…