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First Opinion Eric R. Gottlieb

UpToDate has a racism problem. Its name is Dr. Stanley Goldfarb

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

Color Code Nicholas St. Fleur

Listen: Vertus Hardiman and the medical tragedies that must not be forgotten

A STAT Investigation Usha Lee McFarling

‘It was stolen from me’: Black doctors are forced out of training programs at far higher rates than white residents

Color Code Nicholas St. Fleur

Listen: ‘Racism is America’s oldest algorithm’: How bias creeps into health care AI

Color Code Nicholas St. Fleur

Listen: Medicine lost the trust of many Black Americans. How can it be restored?

Special Report Usha Lee McFarling

20 years ago, a landmark report spotlighted systemic racism in medicine. Why has so little changed?

Special Report Eric Boodman

How medicine erased Black women from a ‘white man’s disease’

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Health Brittany Trang

One-third of U.S. labs have stopped using race-based equations to diagnose kidney disease

Health Care Brittany Trang

Why doesn’t the U.S. have more Black doctors?

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Health Usha Lee McFarling

Brains of Black Americans age faster, study finds, with racial stressors a likely factor

Biotech Usha Lee McFarling

STAT Plus: ‘Science is just rocketing forward’: A Q&A with former NIH director Francis Collins

First Opinion Gracie Himmelstein, Joniqua Ceasar and Kathryn E.W. Himmelstein

Hospital financing in black and white

First Opinion Pringl Miller

Breaking the ‘corporate medical playbook’ that silences physicians’ reports of inequity

First Opinion Hans Gutbrod

Addressing institutional trauma in health care: the case for a structured ethical framework

First Opinion David J. Skorton and Henri R. Ford

New competencies on diversity, equity, and inclusion for medical education across the continuum

Health Katherine Gilyard

Placebo response reveals unconscious bias among white patients toward female, Black physicians

First Opinion Kim Gallon

Digital back doors can lead down the path to health inequity

A STAT Investigation Usha Lee McFarling

What will it take to level the playing field for Black residents?

First Opinion Emily Klancher Merchant

Hold science to higher standards on racism

First Opinion Jim Downs

Never forget that early vaccines came from testing on enslaved people

Color Code Nicholas St. Fleur

Listen: A ‘city on fire’: How Miami shaped a disputed diagnosis used to justify deaths in police custody

First Opinion Anna C. F. Lewis

Substituting genetic ancestry for race in research? Not so fast

Color Code Nicholas St. Fleur

Listen: ‘Birthing while Black’ is an American crisis. Communities demand justice

Health Allison DeAngelis

Incoming JAMA editor says the journal’s issues handling race are ‘not unique to JAMA’

Color Code Nicholas St. Fleur

Listen: Dismantling medical racism starts in the classroom

First Opinion Sadhana Jackson

The power of inclusion: Overturning the ‘white wall’ standard

First Opinion LaQuayia Goldring

The organ procurement system is failing people of color like me. It’s time for reform

Color Code Nicholas St. Fleur

Listen: How one 1910 report curtailed Black medical education for over a century

First Opinion David Introcaso

HHS’s failure to address the health harms of the climate crisis constitutes environmental and institutional racism

First Opinion Tom Sequist

Unexpectedly united: The parallel plights of two communities 2,000 miles apart wracked by the pandemic

First Opinion Shenelle Wilson

Gaslighting of Black medical trainees makes residency something to ‘survive’

The Readout LOUD Damian Garde, Meg Tirrell and Adam Feuerstein

Listen: Medical racism, new Covid vaccines, & the resilience of Regeneron