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When data shows that Asian Americans are faring better during the pandemic than other racial groups, physician and researcher Carlos Irwin A. Oronce knows that isn’t the whole story. The first …
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As some nurses across the country choose to stop working rather than comply with vaccine mandates, some hospitals are recruiting nurses in the Philippines to fill their staffing gaps. That …
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As Chicago-based health equity researchers, Maureen Benjamins and Fernando De Maio have long been interested in the disparities that affect their city. Benjamins, a Chicago-born senior research fellow at the …
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There’s a reason why the nation’s largest and longest-running study of cardiovascular disease in African Americans calls Jackson, Miss., home. That community, like others in the southeastern United States, has …
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An $11 billion biopharma acquisition. Health equity “tourism.” And, where can you buy a 12-foot pyramid of bones? We cover all that and more this week on “The Readout LOUD,” …
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An expert task force on Thursday released a new and much-anticipated approach for diagnosing kidney function, saying there is no need for controversial algorithms that consider race in the assessment …
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Fueled by the massive health disparities exposed by the coronavirus pandemic and the racial reckoning that followed the murder of George Floyd, health equity research is now in vogue. Journals …
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Health inequities in rural communities across the South are continuing to determine who is most vulnerable to Covid-19 now that the Delta variant is bringing a new surge in deaths. …
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For years, Latasha Taylor resisted her mother’s requests to join her in the garden at sunrise. She keeps this memory with her ever since her mother died from Covid-19 in …
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