First Opinion Elizabeth A. Brown Use ‘racial privilege’ — not race — to measure and understand health
Health Care Marion Renault ‘They were his best shot. And they failed to help’: Why did EMS workers neglect Tyre Nichols?
First Opinion Dylan D. Barth and Mark E. Engel Invasive strep A: bad in affluent countries, far worse in low-income nations
Health Usha Lee McFarling MRI scans reveal disparate impact of poverty and other ‘toxic stress’ on brains of Black children
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
Politics Rachel Cohrs STAT Plus: The unexpected alliance lobbying for Medicare to pay for new obesity drugs
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 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
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
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 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 Usha Lee McFarling Before making unbiased pulse oximeters, researchers need a better way to measure skin tone
Health Ambar Castillo ‘Mass incarceration is one of the greatest health challenges of our time’: MacArthur ‘genius’ Emily Wang on building solutions