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Racial bias is built into the design of pulse oximeters

Racial bias is built into the design of pulse oximeters

One of the most indispensable devices of the coronavirus pandemic is the pulse oximeter, which clips onto a p…

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Voting is significant determinant of health, US medical association declares

Voting is significant determinant of health, US medical association declares

Access to voting is now considered a health issue, according to the country's largest physician group. The Am…

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Why Did the First Human Patient to Receive a Pig Heart Transplant Die?

Why Did the First Human Patient to Receive a Pig Heart Transplant Die?

Bartley Griffith is a cardiac surgeon at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, who says he's probably done o…

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A blood-oxygen detector without racial bias

A blood-oxygen detector without racial bias

The traditional pulse oximeter is a small clip that attaches to your finger. One side of the clip shoots two …

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What You Need to Know About the History of Monkeypox

What You Need to Know About the History of Monkeypox

Since it was first identified in a colony of monkeys in Copenhagen in 1958, monkeypox has been largely overlo…

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Paradox of telemedicine: building or neglecting trust and equity

Paradox of telemedicine: building or neglecting trust and equity

Rigorous efforts to minimise disease transmission in the COVID-19 pandemic have catalysed the development of …

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The Infrastructure Bill-Investing in Environmental Justice & Health Equity | Milbank Memorial Fun...

The Infrastructure Bill-Investing in Environmental Justice & Health Equity | Milbank Memorial Fun...

The connections between infrastructure and health are robust, from the benefits of green spaces, physical act…

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After centuries, we still can't perform animal-to-human transplants

After centuries, we still can't perform animal-to-human transplants

In January, a team at the University of Maryland at Baltimore transplanted a genetically modified pig heart i…

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Building a pandemic supply chain - equity over equality

Building a pandemic supply chain - equity over equality

During the initial phases of the pandemic, politicians, celebrities and public-health leaders alike peddled a…

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The Ukrainian refugee crisis and the pathology of racism

The Ukrainian refugee crisis and the pathology of racism

War has catastrophic impacts on human health, but the risks facing those fleeing violence are made all the mo…

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The Enigma of Stigma

The Enigma of Stigma

Where NICU nurse Donna Schmidt worked, the earsplitting shrill of alarm bells was only sometimes drowned out …

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Vaccine apartheid: global cooperation and equity

Vaccine apartheid: global cooperation and equity

Widening gaps in global vaccine equity have led to a two-track pandemic with booster COVID-19 vaccinations pr…

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COVID-19: LMICs need antivirals as well as vaccines

COVID-19: LMICs need antivirals as well as vaccines

In the battle against COVID-19, there must be global equity in the distribution of antiviral drugs such as mo…

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All Infrastructure Is Health Infrastructure

All Infrastructure Is Health Infrastructure

Flint's water crisis. Texas' power grid failure. Miami's Surfside tower collapse. The nation's crumbling infr…

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Global health responsibilities in a Taliban-led Afghanistan

Global health responsibilities in a Taliban-led Afghanistan

To the Editor - The Taliban seizure of power in Afghanistan has intensified an already dire humanitarian cris…

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Superhuman, but never enough: Black women in medicine

Superhuman, but never enough: Black women in medicine

Historically, Black women have long been disregarded in the USA. The Three-Fifths Compromise of the US Consti…

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Health-based civic engagement is a professional responsibility

Health-based civic engagement is a professional responsibility

To the Editor - Since the 2020 US presidential election, there has been a nationwide assault on voting rights…

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The 2021 USPSTF lung cancer screening guidelines: a new frontier

The 2021 USPSTF lung cancer screening guidelines: a new frontier

In March, 2021, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) updated their lung cancer screening…

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Beyond Tuskegee — Vaccine Distrust and Everyday Racism

Beyond Tuskegee — Vaccine Distrust and Everyday Racism

J.Marion Sims. Henrietta Lacks. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study. With two authorized SARS-CoV-2 vaccines now ava…

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