racial disparities

A novel program in Tennessee aims to interest more Black and other minority medical students in organ transplants, to help ease troubling disparities.

A clinical trial is recruiting volunteers to try to figure out if 3D mammograms are better than standard 2D imaging for catching advanced cancers. The trial includes a large number of Black women who face disparities in breast cancer death rates.

"We won't heal until we make sense of the crack epidemic," Donovan X. Ramsey says. His book, When Crack Was King, examines the drug's destructive path through the Black community.

Minorities tend to be diagnosed at later stages of the disease, which would exclude them from use of Leqembi. Few Black people were included in the main trial of the drug.

Some medical professionals are concerned the decision could have implications for the diversity of medical students, the practice of medicine, and patient care.

Non-Hispanic Black women — regardless of income or education level — die at nearly three times the rate of non-Hispanic white women.

Powerful new artificial intelligence tools can perpetuate long-standing racial inequities if they are not designed very carefully. Researchers and regulators are taking note, but perils are vast.

As many as 40% more Black male patients in the study might have been diagnosed with breathing problems if current diagnosis-assisting computer software was changed, the study said.

On this episode, we talk about the factors that increase the risk of skin cancer in people with darker skin tones.

The University of Florida health system is exploring ways to better engage Black adults in need of health care.