Shuttered hospitals, soaring Covid-19 deaths: Rural Black communities lose a lifeline in the century’s worst health crisis
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Opinion: Doctors should talk about race and racism with their patients. Here’s how
“Why do Black lives matter?” a patient asked me. “Why can’t all lives matter?” It…
Acknowledging its ‘white patriarchy’ and racist past, the AMA pledges to dismantle causes of health inequities
Saying it needs to “pivot from ambivalence to urgent action” and hold itself accountable for…
Opinion: My work as a Black OB-GYN tempered my joy as I prepared to give birth
Expectant mothers tend to spend time fine-tuning their baby registries and decorating their nurseries. I…
A doctor trained nurse practitioners to do colonoscopies. Critics say his research exploited Black patients
At a time when medical researchers are under pressure to increase diversity in clinical trials,…
After 40 years, medical schools are admitting fewer Black male or Native American students
In what some are calling a “persistent failure” of medical schools to improve diversity, a…
Opinion: Academic medical centers need to go beyond statements condemning racism
As predictable as mushrooms popping up after rain, condemnation of racism from leaders at academic…
Opinion: For people of color, ‘where is our pause’ from being killed by police?
Each night, after our 7-year-old son falls asleep, my wife or I go into his…
In Q&A, Vice President Harris calls for urgent action on the Black maternal health crisis
It’s an American crisis that was long ignored at the government’s highest levels: Black women…
When a cardiologist flagged the lack of diversity at premier medical journals, the silence was telling
When cardiologist Raymond Givens read the article in the Journal of the American Heart Association…
Opinion: Excited delirium: valid clinical diagnosis or medicalized racism? Organized medicine needs to take a stand
The “diagnosis” of excited delirium, a term often used to justify and defend police brutality,…
‘Who is going to protect me?’: Ratings app aims to remove bias from the birthing experiences of Black and brown mothers
Thirty weeks into my first pregnancy, I developed some concerning abdominal pain. The clinicians in…
Troubling podcast puts JAMA, the ‘voice of medicine,’ under fire for its mishandling of race
Weeks after it was scrubbed from the Journal of the American Medical Association’s website, a…
Opinion: How a rally after the Atlanta shootings helped heal Asian American health care workers
In March 2020, when New York City became the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in…
Opinion: In light of anti-Asian attacks, medicine needs to listen to Asian American trainees
The shocking shooting rampage in Atlanta targeting Asian spas, followed not long after by an…
Opinion: Listen: Uché Blackstock on diversity in medicine and a ‘life-altering’ decision
In this week’s episode of STAT’s “First Opinion Podcast,” I talk with emergency physician turned…
Meghan Markle described racism as a toxic stressor during her pregnancy. I can relate
Megan Markle made the difficult confession that she experienced suicidal thoughts while pregnant with her…
After allegations of racism and sexism, some applicants remove Tulane from residency rankings
With time running out for their medical residency decisions, some applicants say they’re taking Tulane…
Doctors, researchers push academia’s ivory tower to start rewarding diversity work in promotion decisions
Universities and academic hospitals have vowed to diversify their ranks after a year of reckoning…
Opinion: Listen: Lauren Powell on the intersection of Covid-19 and racism
In the second episode of STAT’s “First Opinion Podcast,” I spoke with Lauren Powell, the…
Opinion: Back to ‘normal’ isn’t good enough
With the anticipation of increasing distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, Americans are looking forward to a…
Opinion: To get the Covid-19 vaccine right, we must close the confidence gap and stop pathologizing communities of color
Broad skepticism about the safety and effectiveness of potential Covid-19 vaccines has created major challenges…
Leading genetics experts call for more racial representation in their industry
As the Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the racial inequalities in the United States’ healthcare…
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…
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…
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…
‘We do belong here’: The scientist behind #BlackInNeuro hopes to transform a Twitter movement into a lasting community
Angeline Dukes, a graduate student in neuroscience, didn’t intend to organize an entire movement. But…
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…
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…
Opinion: Say her name: Don’t erase Bebe Moore Campbell from National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
The U.S. health care system has long neglected minority mental health. It continues to do…
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…
‘We have to do a better job’: How structural racism in medicine harms both doctors and patients
Early in her medical career, physician Rachel Issaka encountered a liver transplant patient who was…
A yearslong push to remove racist bias from kidney testing gains new ground
For years, physicians and medical students, many of them Black, have warned that the most…
Listen: Coronavirus vaccine data, saving the U.S.’s pandemic response, and systemic racism in medicine
What do we want from a coronavirus vaccine? Can the U.S.’s Covid-19 response be saved?…
How should hospitals respond to bias from patients? Experts offer a playbook
All too often, health care workers are the target of biased or bigoted behavior from…
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…
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…
Opinion: Structural racism is why I’m leaving organized psychiatry
The killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and so many others are leading…
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…
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…
Listen: The killing of George Floyd, the drug industry’s response, and what comes next
We’re going to do something different on this episode of “The Readout LOUD,” STAT’s biotech…
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…