Health Disparities

Special Report By Bethany Mollenkof

A hospital, and a family, lost during the pandemic

Special Report By Bethany Mollenkof

A community pioneer lost, and remembered

Special Report By Bethany Mollenkof

The land as medicine

Special Report By Bethany Mollenkof

The Guardian of the Glades

Special Report By Bethany Mollenkof

DISTANCED: Pandemic stories of Black life in the rural South

Health By Isabella Cueto

Black children have more complications during appendectomies and incur higher costs, study shows

First Opinion By Jennifer S. Bard and Chloe Reichel

Covid-19 booster shot distribution must learn from vaccine roll-out mistakes

First Opinion By Gaige Kerr and Susan Anenberg

The pandemic made clear who doesn’t get to breathe clean air. Now what?

First Opinion By Clare Grace

To ensure equity and accuracy, clinical research must reflect the diversity of patients

First Opinion By Chris Hemphill

Responsible AI: leveraging data and technology to counteract bias

First Opinion By Christina Severin and Erin McAleer

Smoothing the path to fighting food insecurity

Health By Nicholas St. Fleur

Virtual event: The next battles in the war against HIV

First Opinion By Utibe R. Essien

Pharmacoequity: a new goal for ending disparities in U.S. health care

First Opinion By Steve Cohen

On menthol cigarettes, social justice theory shouldn’t trump science

First Opinion By Maggie Salinger

Medicine needs to see what disability means, looks like, and feels like — in its ranks and in its patients

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

When Covid first hit, prostate cancer surgeries fell much more for Black men than white men

Health By Claudia López Lloreda

In the same health system, Black patients are prescribed fewer opioids than white patients

First Opinion By Ted W. Love

Sickle cell disease and a pivotal moment to end health inequality

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: An OB-GYN on the maternal mortality crisis in the U.S.

First Opinion By Alissa Erogbogbo

Managed care’s role in protecting women from childbirth-related complications

First Opinion By Tanika Gray Valbrun

Uterine fibroids affect millions of women. Why has this condition been overlooked for decades?

First Opinion By David Lenihan

The Covid-19 relief bill created 1,000 more residency slots for new doctors. Wealthy hospitals should be last in line to get them

First Opinion By Vikram Bakhru

Health care is a human right in times of crisis. Why not every day?

Special Report By Nicholas St. Fleur and Hyacinth Empinado

Watch: An unusual 30th birthday gift: Why I got a colonoscopy so young — and documented every step

Special Report By Nicholas St. Fleur

Chadwick Boseman’s tragedy is America’s tragedy: In colorectal cancer hot spots, young men are dying at higher rates