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First Opinion Jayasree K. Iyer and Pat Garcia-Gonzalez

Redefining sustainability in health care: putting patients before profits

First Opinion Elizabeth A. Brown

Use ‘racial privilege’ — not race — to measure and understand health

First Opinion Shira Shavit

Medicaid during incarceration: a step toward health equity

Health Care Marion Renault

‘They were his best shot. And they failed to help’: Why did EMS workers neglect Tyre Nichols?

Health Usha Lee McFarling

MRI scans reveal disparate impact of poverty and other ‘toxic stress’ on brains of Black children

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: The unexpected alliance lobbying for Medicare to pay for new obesity drugs

Special Report Jason Mast

STAT Plus: We finally have new drugs for sickle cell disease. Why are so few patients taking them?

Health Usha Lee McFarling

Before making unbiased pulse oximeters, researchers need a better way to measure skin tone

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Health Usha Lee McFarling

Carrying the torch of his slain brother, a Chicago ER doctor struggles against the violence around him

Health Eric Boodman

‘This is a nonpartisan issue’: Planned Parenthood’s Alexis McGill Johnson on fighting for reproductive rights

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In the Lab Megan Molteni

With CRISPR cures on horizon, sickle cell patients ask hard questions about who can access them

Health Usha Lee McFarling

How one medical school became remarkably diverse — without considering race in admissions

Health Andrew Joseph

U.N.: Progress on reducing global maternal mortality has stalled since 2015

First Opinion Dylan D. Barth and Mark E. Engel

Invasive strep A: bad in affluent countries, far worse in low-income nations

First Opinion Jennifer W. Tsai, Rohan Khazanchi and Emily Laflamme

Death by missing data: Uncollected racial and ethnic pandemic data will drive inequities for decades to come

Opinions+ Christine Swisher and Gabriel Seidman

STAT Plus: 4 concrete steps to realize the AI Bill of Rights for clinical decision support software

Health Adam Beam — Associated Press

California’s dark history of forced sterilizations comes into focus as it seeks victims to pay reparations

Health Isabella Cueto and Lacey Lyons

‘Why am I having to explain this?’: Seven stories of barriers to reproductive care for those with disabilities

Health Usha Lee McFarling

Paying research participants — a lot — may be a key to increasing diversity in studies

Health Elaine Chen

Diabetes in youth is set to skyrocket in coming decades

Health Elaine Chen and Isabella Cueto

3 things to watch in chronic disease in 2023: obesity drugs, long Covid and health care costs

First Opinion Amar Kelkar, Julie Kanter and Payal Desai

Specialized centers can help realign the U.S.’s moral compass for sickle cell disease

Health Elaine Chen

Diabetes treatments are improving. Racial disparities are wider than ever

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Amid dire maternal mortality rates, Congress falls short on Medicaid postpartum care

Health Katherine Harmon Courage

Racism leads to troubled sleep — and it’s putting Black Americans’ heart health at risk

First Opinion Louis W. Sullivan and Caswell A. Evans

Lawmakers should act on the evidence and expand access to dental therapists

Health Usha Lee McFarling

No one’s quite sure how to fix pulse oximeters. The FDA asked this lab to find answers

Health Tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Chief health equity officers are growing more common. But experts say companies need to empower them

Health Ambar Castillo

Ballerina, firefighter, hygienist? Why dentistry needs to start its pipeline with young kids

Health Tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: 5 ways health tech companies can make their products more equitable

Health Ambar Castillo

STAT Plus: ‘All the tech in the world doesn’t solve this’: Rare disease experts push biopharma on equity

Health Jayne Williamson-Lee

‘I question what I know’: Top cancer specialist Otis Brawley on valuing orthodoxy in medicine

Health Ambar Castillo

‘Mass incarceration is one of the greatest health challenges of our time’: MacArthur ‘genius’ Emily Wang on building solutions