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race
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What journalists should know about race-based prescribing
Help your audience understand the differences between genetic ancestry, which can affect drug responses, and the social categories of race…
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The complicated role race and ethnicity play in research
Using race and ethnicity categories in research contributes to health inequities — but omitting them can also be problematic, a…
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How one reporter covered the removal of race from common algorithms
Learn how independent journalist Cassie Willyard wrote about efforts to update old algorithms and re-evaluate biased devices.
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How I Did It: From ‘internet rabbit hole’ to compelling series
STAT correspondent Katie Palmer talks about how she and her colleague reported on medicine’s struggle to use race in clinical…
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More data needed on disparities in patient safety research, experts say
Many studies in the U.S. have looked at gender, race and ethnic disparities in patient safety, a leading cause of…
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Report exposes worrisome health trends in Black and Indigenous women of childbearing age
Many American women of reproductive age have high rates of chronic conditions like diabetes and obesity that may be linked…
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These tools add important social context to public health stories
Federal, state and local officials use risk assessment tools called “social vulnerability indices” to identify places that may be hit…
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Why race equity plans matter and how to report on them
Dallas is among cities, counties and other local governments that have recently adopted race equity plans. In the 2022-2023 goals and metrics…
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Reporting on disparities in HIV testing, PrEP
HIV trends don’t make headlines the way they used to. But we may see an influx of them in the…
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Study documents racial differences in hospice use and end-of-life care
A new analysis of racial disparities in end-of-life care finds that Black patients voluntarily seek substantially more intensive treatment, such…
