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At every stage of the Covid-19 pandemic, national reporting of racial and ethnic disparities in Covid-19 testing, diagnosis, disease severity, treatment, and vaccination by clinicians, public health organizations, and the …
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As 2023 begins, health care providers in the United States must make health records more easily available or risk losing Medicare funding under the 21st Century Cures Act. While this …
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Over the past three years, many Americans learned more about epidemiology than they ever knew before. From Covid-19 to mpox to polio, a new generation of citizen scientists is now …
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Chronic disease is omnipresent in the United States. Trillions of dollars are devoted to and hundreds of thousands of lives are taken by chronic conditions each year. So why does …
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Weather-related disasters like the millions of Floridians left without power by Hurricane Ian or the record monsoon rains that have claimed 1,500 lives in Pakistan have increased five-fold in the …
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Editor’s note: A livestream of the conversation is embedded below. Data sharing is essential to developing everything from medicines to artificial intelligence-based tools, but often ulterior commercial motives corrupt it. Is …
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With health emergencies becoming more common, the world needs more efficient ways to test the safety and effectiveness of drugs, even if they haven’t yet completed the lengthy series of …
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Americans born in 2021 can expect to live for just 76.1 years — the lowest life expectancy has been since 1996, according to a new government analysis published Wednesday. This …
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