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The persistent lack of diversity among participants in clinical trials is a critical issue that is harming both populations that have long been left out of pivotal medical studies and …
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Guns were the weapons wielded in more than three-quarters of homicides in the U.S. during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, jumping 35% from 2019 to 2020 and marking …
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Widely used physician guidelines that ignore patients’ race and ethnicity could be doing more harm than good when it comes to catching diabetes in people of color. New research, published …
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The Biden administration’s upcoming Covid-19 summit will shine a spotlight on the global failure to achieve vaccine equity. Although nearly 12 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered globally …
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A rare but aggressive kind of uterine cancer appears to be driving an increase in U.S. deaths from the disease, particularly among Black women, researchers reported Thursday. Over eight years, …
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Every day, physicians encounter patients in their practices who show the toll of skipping meals to feed their children, or who cannot refrigerate their insulin because they have no electricity. …
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The growing uptake of wearable devices has sparked enthusiasm among health researchers, and for good reason. The data generated by fitness and activity trackers offers an exciting new stream of …
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Organ donation and transplantation are saving more lives in the United States than ever before, thanks to concerted work by stakeholders from across the country: donor families, organ procurement organizations, …
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I am a Black woman who has been waiting for seven years for a kidney transplant. The organ procurement system has failed me — apparently by design. In December 2021, …
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