Inequality
Study: Funding pullbacks threaten progress on UN goal to end HIV/AIDS
Despite global progress toward eliminating HIV — including a growing number of nations that have hit goals to diagnose and successfully treat patients — funding pullbacks threaten to add decades to the battle, according to a study.
VIDEO: J. Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society panel addresses health disparities
DENVER — In this video, Kwadwo Adu Owusu-Akyaw, MD, FAAOS, discusses takeaways from a panel at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine that addressed health disparities in the specialty.
Q&A: Improving ILD diagnosis times through physician education
Increasing health care worker awareness of interstitial lung diseases can have a major impact on the timing of this diagnosis and receipt of treatment for suffering patients.
Asian, underrepresented in medicine students with disabilities at high risk for burnout
Asian and underrepresented in medicine by race and ethnicity medical students with multiple disability types experienced high risk for burnout compared with their white peers.
VIDEO: A call to action to improve health for all
BOSTON — During the Edward H. Kass Lecture at IDWeek, Louise Ivers, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FASTMH, addressed the crowd about infections, inequalities and the hope that everyone can contribute to improving health for all.
SURMOUNT-3, keynote lectures highlight program at ObesityWeek
Experts in the field of obesity will gather in Dallas beginning on Saturday to hear about the latest research, discuss clinical practice recommendations and connect with colleagues at the ObesityWeek annual meeting.
Interventions needed to address stroke inequities for Black, Hispanic, Indigenous people
Significant racial and ethnic inequities persist in all aspects of stroke care, yet interventions that adequately address social determinants of health and other related factors are lacking, according to a new scientific statement.
Racial disparities persist in hospital readmission among young patients with acute MI
Among young acute MI survivors, Black individuals had greater risk for all-cause hospital readmission within 1 year of discharge compared with white individuals, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.
CMS policy change could increase disparities in heart transplant receipt
In 2020, CMS made a policy change to increase access to left ventricular assist devices. It could have unintended consequences in increasing disparities in who receives a heart transplant, according to a research team.
How can paid family leave help address inequity in medicine?
In this At Issue, Grace C. Wright, MD, PhD, founder and president of the Association of Women in Rheumatology and owner and president of Grace C. Wright, MD, PC, discusses how paid family leave can help address the bias experienced by health care providers.