LISBON — Across the world, the Covid-19 pandemic laid bare the fact that widespread racial and ethnic inequities often determine whether people can access health
New research calls into question the high-profile conclusion of the first major study to show that the race of physicians influences health outcomes. In August
Hospitals across the country are struggling to conserve and stretch their supplies of IV fluids in the wake of a shortage brought on by Hurricane
This is Part 6 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it’s so difficult to change them. NEW
This is Part 5 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it’s so difficult to change them. A
Columbia University announced Thursday that its medical school has received $400 million to fund a new institute for basic biomedical research to fuel future discoveries
Veterans Affairs department officials said Monday they have launched a study to determine how removing race from widely used lung function tests may affect disability
The nation’s longstanding racial and ethnic health inequities will not improve unless Congress steps in to provide affordable health insurance for all and federal agencies
A coalition of researchers, historians, and journalists is urging that major scientific publishers, including Elsevier and Springer, retract the racist articles of an academic known
Removing a patient’s race from an equation used to assess lung function — a change called for by health equity advocates — would mean that