Health Equity

In this Healio video, Folasade P. May, MD, PhD, MPhil, emphasizes the importance of educating patients about colorectal cancer risk and screening all individuals at the “right age and at the right interval.”

The CDC updated its COVID-19 isolation guidance for the first time in 2 years, saying that people with COVID-19 no longer have to isolate for 5 days if they are showing certain signs of improvement.

The theme for this year’s World Optometry Week, March 17 to 23, is “Advancing Optometry’s Commitment to Global Eye Care,” the World Council of Optometry announced in a press release.

In a video exclusive, Healio’s Health Equity Award winner Folasade P. May, MD, PhD, MPhil, discusses the importance of a collective, nationwide effort to recognize health care disparities and support disadvantaged populations.

Mortality in the United States has returned to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels for the most part, but several groups continue to experience disparities that existed before March 2020, according to a study.

PCPs should use the waist-to-hip ratio rather than BMI to evaluate obesity among Hispanic and Latino adults, according to experts.

In this video, members of the South Asian IBD Alliance, which received Healio’s 2023 Patient Voice Disruptive Innovator Award, share how their initial goal to dispel cultural stigma has grown into a space for community, support and advocacy.

Consideration of sex and gender in trial design, enrollment and data analysis is needed to improve the validity and equity of ophthalmology trials associated with FDA drug approvals, according to research in JAMA Ophthalmology.

Chronic stress can be detrimental to health, but primary care providers can help patients manage its causes and effects, according to experts.

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Avital O’Glasser, MD, about the challenges facing non-traditional scholarship, amplifying diverse voices in medicine and more.