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Genetics researchers inconsistently and inappropriately use racial and ethnic labels, a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report concluded. → Read More
The diversity of medical school classes has barely budged in recent decades, even with the ability to consider an applicant’s race as one factor in → Read More
Stressful experiences during early childhood — particularly economic strife — can alter regions of the brain tied to the processing of stress and trauma, a study found. → Read More
Can paying people narrow racial and ethnic gaps in who signs up for clinical trials? A new study finds that if the amount is too small, it could have the opposite effect. → Read More
The U.S. announced Wednesday that it is requiring travelers from China to show a negative Covid-19 test before boarding flights to the U.S. → Read More
In the search for how to fix pulse oximeters, FDA regulators have turned to a single small lab in San Francisco whose visionary founder helped develop modern blood monitoring tools. → Read More
Much of the research to understand pulse oximeters’ shortcomings and devise solutions is focused on race. But the problem is not one of race — it’s very clearly one of skin tone. → Read More
The brains of Black adults in the U.S. age more quickly than those of white and Hispanic adults, showing features linked to Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias as early as mid-life, according to a new study. → Read More
The FDA advisory panel members agreed that current regulations that allow oxygen readings to be inaccurate by up to 3% on average should be tightened in the future to 2% or even 1.5%. → Read More
Watch this short explainer to understand the technology behind pulse oximeters and why they can be less accurate in patients with darker skin. → Read More
An FDA advisory committee today will weigh whether pulse oximeters need to be regulated differently based on research showing the devices are less accurate in people with darker skin. For many, the question is what took so long. → Read More
Former NIH director Francis Collins spoke with STAT about his hopes for early-cancer detection, curing progeria, and other advancements in genetic research. → Read More
An influential national panel of preventive health experts said for the first time that children and adolescents between 8 and 18 should be screened for anxiety. → Read More
Where caregiving is a family affair, it’s almost unthinkable for children and spouses to place loved ones in nursing facilities — even if those options were affordable. → Read More
For decades, Alzheimer’s researchers have recruited patients for clinical trials in largely the same way. Alzheimer's disease researcher Gladys Maestre came to Texas’ Rio Grande Valley to change that. → Read More
The fact that Black engineers are leading the charge to fix the long-ignored disparity with pulse oximeters is a clear example of what’s lost when most scientists are white. → Read More
There aren't nearly enough Native American physicians. A crash course in medicine seeks to change that. → Read More
Solutions advocated by scholars and doctors include collecting and making public data and improving due process protections and mentorship for residents. → Read More
A STAT investigation found that Black residents leave or are terminated from training programs at far higher rates than white residents. → Read More
Life expectancy for Native Americans has stagnated, a new study finds. “To have that long of a period of time and no increase in life expectancy was probably the most shocking finding,” one of the authors said. → Read More