Health Disparities

First Opinion By Warren A. Whyte

Racial disparities in Covid-19 are bad. They’re even worse in cancer

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

New cancer patients — especially Black people — are more susceptible to severe Covid-19 infections

Health By Olivia Goldhill and Nicholas St. Fleur

‘There absolutely will be a black market’: How the rich and privileged can skip the line for Covid-19 vaccines

First Opinion By Oliver T. Brooks and LaVarne A. Burton

Better collection, reporting of race and ethnicity data are essential for fighting Covid-19

First Opinion By Laurie Zephyrin and Roosa Tikkanen

The shameful abundance of birth- and pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S.

Pharma By Nicholas St. Fleur

Pharma trade group issues guidelines for improving diversity of clinical trial participants

Health By Nicholas St. Fleur

Health experts want to prioritize people of color for a Covid-19 vaccine. But how should it be done?

Health By Priyanka Runwal

After a breast cancer diagnosis, many Black women face barriers that delay their care

Health Tech By Erin Brodwin

Remote monitoring tools are increasingly popular. Here’s what stands in the way of their broader adoption

Health By Nicholas St. Fleur

Colorectal cancer screening should start five years earlier — at 45 — expert panel says

First Opinion By Parsa Erfani, Caroline Lee, and Nishant Uppal

Why isn’t routine Covid-19 testing happening in prisons and immigrant detention centers?

Health By Usha Lee McFarling

For Black women, the isolation of infertility is compounded by barriers to treatment

Health By Eric Boodman

He’s a recruiter for a Covid-19 vaccine trial. Can he overcome communities’ distrust — and his own mother’s?

Health By Casey Ross and Priyanka Runwal

‘Covid is all about privilege’: Trump’s treatment underscores vast inequalities in access to care

Health By Gabrielle Glaser

Inequality ‘surrounds you’: A Black doctor returns to hard-hit Louisiana after treating and contracting Covid-19 in New York

Health By Pratibha Gopalakrishna

New research shows older adults are still often excluded from clinical trials

First Opinion By Panagis Galiatsatos and Erica Johnson

Medicine for the Greater Good: one hospital’s way of supporting its nearby communities of color

Health By Usha Lee McFarling

‘They are really afraid’: Fears about Covid-19 are complicating care for patients with sickle cell

Health Tech By STAT staff

AI could help rid health care of biases. It also might make them worse

First Opinion By Adam W. Gaffney, Steffie Woolhandler, and David U. Himmelstein

Are lung function algorithms perpetuating health disparities experienced by Black people?

Health Tech By Pratibha Gopalakrishna

How Lyft’s growing medical business is trying to close gaps in health care access

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

Immigration status, housing, and food-service work explain Covid-19’s burden on Latinos

First Opinion By Megan R. Mahoney

It’s time to stop using skin color and race in medicine and see patients for who they really are

The Readout LOUD By Adam Feuerstein, Damian Garde, and Rebecca Robbins

Covid-19 clinical trials are failing to enroll diverse populations, despite awareness efforts

Health By Casey Ross

Study finds racial bias in the government’s formula for distributing Covid-19 aid to hospitals