Health Disparities

Morning Rounds Theresa Gaffney

Glucose monitors, mpox vaccine inequity and effects of LGBTQ+ restrictions

First Opinion Adewole Adamson, Vishal Patel, and H. Gilbert Welch

Doing more cancer screening won’t reduce Black-white health disparities

First Opinion Deborah M. Stein and Robert V. O'Toole

Aspirin after a broken bone: health equity in a $5 bottle

Morning Rounds Brittany Trang

Morning Rounds: Another Ebola outbreak?

Health Angus Chen

Scientists are starting to uncover how neighborhood can affect the biology of cancer

First Opinion Staja “Star” Booker

When life mirrors research: What a fall on the ice taught me about being Black and in pain

First Opinion Sanjay Basu

Cost-effectiveness of health interventions may be perpetuating health disparities. Here’s how to fix that

First Opinion Amy West

ACL tears in women: Too many injuries and too little research

Health Usha Lee McFarling

VA disputes claim that removing race from lung tests would greatly alter disability payments

In the Lab Angus Chen

Bone marrow donors needn’t be perfect match, study says, paving way for more equitable access

First Opinion Eugene Declercq

Unsettling truths about maternal mortality in the U.S.

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Why is eugenics still alive and well in scientific publishing?

First Opinion Annette Ansong, Rachel Bond, and Tiffany Powell-Wiley

Medicare’s Part D policy is blocking progress needed to achieve Black health equity

Health Usha Lee McFarling

National Academies proposes reimagining health care to fix ‘fundamental flaws’ that underlie inequity

In the Lab Alia Sajani

How a Baltimore neuroscience study is rewriting Black America’s relationship with medical research

First Opinion Cheryl R. Clark

It’s been 60 years since Freedom Summer, yet the fight for affordable, compassionate, and equitable health care is still going on

Exclusive John Wilkerson

NIH wanted to make cancer research more diverse. The effort turned out to be a costly failure

First Opinion Jayasree K. Iyer

Obesity drugs pose a big challenge for health care equity

Special Report Anissa Durham

New obesity drugs are seemingly everywhere. Black Americans feel left out

Special Report Anissa Durham

Black voices, Black bodies: Life in the age of Ozempic

In the Lab Angus Chen

Black Americans’ risk for breast cancer gains clarity in analysis of 40,000 genomes

Health Usha Lee McFarling

Removing race adjustment from lung test could mean higher disability payments for Black vets

Health Deborah Balthazar

Black women founders offer health tech solutions to combat Black maternal mortality

Health Usha Lee McFarling

In military medicine, study shows rank and race affect care

Health Deborah Balthazar

Genetic variant common among West African descendants contributes to large cardiovascular disease burden

Health Theresa Gaffney

Equity, technology, and costs top of mind for life science’s leaders

Health Usha Lee McFarling

Health disparities and premature deaths run deep, even in best-performing states

First Opinion Edward Abrahams and Christopher J. Wells

Personalized medicine: We’re not there yet

Health tech Timmy Broderick

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