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FDA’s Promised Guidance on Pulse Oximeters Unlikely To End Decades of Racial Bias
Pulse oximeters were three times as likely to miss dangerously low blood oxygen levels in Black patients as in white ones.
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Research in Context: Can We Slow Aging?
Research explores the biology of aging, including how to measure its speed and progression and ways it might be slowed or ...
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Physicians of Color More Likely to Care for Medicaid Patients
A new study shows Latino and Black family physicians play a crucial role in providing health care for people in marginalized ...
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Why Your Flu Shot Might Come With a Colon Cancer Test
The model has community clinicians offer take-home fecal immunochemical tests (FIT) for colorectal cancer alongside flu shots ...
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Dana-Farber Leads IGNITE Initiative to End Health Inequities in Pediatric Cancer Care
Instead of testing new drugs, we’re addressing the root causes of disparities like poverty and access to care.” ...
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National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day 2024
The theme for #NLAAD is “Start Treatment, Stick to It. Get Better.” About one third of new HIV cases in the U.S. occurred in ...
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Low-Income Adolescents Are at Higher Risk for Fatty Liver Disease
Food-insecure adolescents who lived in low-income households were three times more likely to develop fatty liver disease than ...
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NIH and FDA Leaders Call for Innovation in Development of Smoking Cessation Treatments
In a new commentary in the Annals of Internal Medicine, leaders at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) highlight recommendations and opportunities to ...