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National Academies report cites ‘urgent’ need to recruit more diverse participants for clinical trials

17.05.2022

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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Firearm deaths and disparities both grew in pandemic’s first year

10.05.2022

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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Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans should be screened at lower BMI for diabetes, study says

10.05.2022

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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First Opinion

Opinion: Strengthening Gavi is a way forward for global vaccine equity

09.05.2022

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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Study uncovers clues to rise in uterine cancer death rates

05.05.2022

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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First Opinion

Opinion: CMS needs to include measures for social drivers of health

29.04.2022

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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First Opinion / Health Tech

Opinion: Wearable device data need to represent all of us

25.04.2022

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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First Opinion

Opinion: Access to kidney transplantation is improving for everyone, but more work remains to be done

22.04.2022

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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First Opinion

Opinion: The organ procurement system is failing people of color like me. It’s time for reform

07.04.2022

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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