Hala Borno, who has been studying the gap between real-world demographics and clinical trial enrollment, discusses how Covid-19 studies are falling short. More
Black children are 3.4 times more likely to die within a month after surgery than their white peers, a study shows. More
Advocates are calling for universal policies on maternity care to reduce disparities in maternal mortality between Black and white women. More
Doctor says physicians urgently need training to be more empathetic, particularly toward people of other races More
One would expect that after 2 decades of national focus on health disparities and 15 years of required curricula, nearly all internal medicine residency programs would include a disparities curriculum. However, this is not the case. More
Living in Boston while Black means regularly feeling unsafe, anxious, and tired. Racism can devastate your mental and physical health and steal your joy. More
The inequities resulted from a formula that allocated large chunks of a $175 billion relief package based on hospital revenue rather than Covid-19 cases. More
The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging for all of us. It’s even more challenging if you’re a person experiencing homelessness. There are things Houston, and other cities, can do to make it better for them, and in doing so, for everyone. More
Harvard research shows minorities are most likely to report inadequate PPE and to work with COVID-positive patients. More
In a Washington Post op-ed, Paul Glastris and Phil Longman explain how our health care system makes it hard for hospitals to treat everyone regardless of race or need. More
According to data compiled by the Lown Institute and published in the Washington Monthly, the best-funded and most prestigious hospitals in America, such as the Cleveland Clinic and Massachusetts General, generally avoid treating poor people in their local communities and fill their beds instead with affluent patients blessed with generous health-care plans. Low-income and minority patients, who generally have more meager health insurance or none at all, are forced to use under-resourced safety net institutions such as those owned and operated by municipal governments. More
Texas reopened quicker than most of the U.S., only to backtrack in the face of massive outbreaks. Health officials say the worst of a summer resurgence appears to be behind the state as a whole, but the border is a bleak exception. Doctors fear another punishing wave is around the corner. More
The pressure to produce an effective Covid-19 vaccine could impede recruitment of volunteers in high-risk populations. More
This cross-sectional study uses 2018 data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study to assess the prevalence among older adults in the United States of unreadiness to access video or telephone telemedicine because of disability or inexperience with technology. More
Not only are Hispanics catching coronavirus at higher rates in Texas’ largest county, they also suffer some of the worst outcomes. More
Statistical gaps can make it difficult to properly allocate public resources to Native Americans. When that’s the case, one leader said, “tribal nations have an effective death sentence.” More
While the blatant horrors of the past are gone, the ideas that fueled race-based medicine stubbornly linger. We can change. More
How racially biased is AI medicine? Experts are asking if biased algorithms worsen Covid-19's toll on Black Americans. More
Access to testing grew faster in wealthier, whiter cities than in communities of color where the coronavirus was spreading fastest, a Chronicle analysis has found. More
The unprecedented scientific quest to end the pandemic with a vaccine faces one of its most crucial tests, and nothing less than the success of the entire endeavor is at stake. A vaccine must work for everyone — young and old; black, brown and white. More