Health Disparities

Health Usha Lee McFarling

Pulse oximeters and their inaccuracies will get FDA scrutiny. What took so long?

First Opinion Marina Del Rios, Nathan T. Chomilo and Neil A. Lewis, Jr.

Covid-19 is an inverse equity story, not a racial equity success story

First Opinion Linda Goler Blount

STAT Plus: Better access to PET scans can help reduce racial inequities in Alzheimer’s disease

Health Andrew Joseph

Racial disparities in neonatal mortality even wider with tools like IVF, study finds

Health Ambar Castillo

In Fiona-ravaged Puerto Rico, hospitals were prioritized over health clinics for diesel, exacerbating rural health disparities

Health Tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Health plans say texting could help reach underserved patients. But a federal rule is getting in their way

First Opinion Michelle A. Williams and Lawrence O. Gostin

Will there be a Supreme assault on public health?

Hospitals Tara Bannow and Kate Sheridan

Harassment prompts children’s hospitals to strip websites, threatening access to gender-affirming care

First Opinion George Dalembert, Atheendar Venkataramani and Eugenia C. South

How health systems can truly value Black lives: help close the racial wealth gap

Health Usha Lee McFarling

Where caregiving is a family affair, Alzheimer’s places a heavy burden on children and spouses

Health Usha Lee McFarling

On the Texas-Mexico border, a bold plan to diversify Alzheimer’s research takes shape

Health Isabella Cueto

Medicare is using one of its biggest hammers to try to fix the dialysis system: how providers are paid

Health Tech Ambar Castillo

STAT Plus: These 3 startups are trying to improve diversity in clinical trials, a challenge experts say will take more than just tech

First Opinion Paul Amadeus Lane and Jim Meade

Medicare needs to update its wheelchair coverage for the 21st century

First Opinion Caroline Fichtenberg and Emilia De Marchis

Why do people turn down social risk assistance offered by their doctors’ offices?

First Opinion Bonnielin Swenor and JR Rizzo

Open access to research can close gaps for people with disabilities

First Opinion Alexander Chaitoff, Khin-Kyemon Aung and Alexander Zheutlin

Amazon and One Medical: Minding the data gaps

Special Report Usha Lee McFarling

‘So much more to do’: A hospital system’s campaign to confront racism — and resistance to change — makes early strides

Health Usha Lee McFarling

‘A poster child’ for diversity in science: Black engineers work to fix long-ignored bias in oxygen readings

Health Lev Facher

Biden administration has simple way to cut overdose deaths, experts say: expand methadone access

Health Emiliano Rodríguez Mega

A team of Oxford and Mexican researchers want to diversify genomic databases. Can they end ‘parachute science,’ too?

First Opinion Maimah Karmo

Triple-negative breast cancer highlights the need to act against health inequities

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: The glaring health equity gap in Democrats’ drug pricing plan

Health Katherine Gilyard

A health equity expert on making monkeypox messaging more inclusive

First Opinion Ken Frazier

Addressing social drivers of health is a big opportunity for tech entrepreneurs

First Opinion Dana P. Goldman, Edith A. Perez and Carlos del Rio

Lack of diversity in clinical trials costs billions of dollars. Incentives can spur innovation

Heavyweights Angus Chen

The trust-builder: a cancer center director’s try-it-all strategy for breaking the barriers between research and Black patients

Health Akila Muthukumar

From low pay to workplace culture, obstacles litter the path to diversity in EMS

First Opinion Quita Highsmith

I learned up close and personal about the necessity of improving diversity in clinical trials