Britain's health secretary announced Sunday he has launched an independent review to examine if "systematic bias" exists in the development of medical devices, after COVID-19 brought the issue "to the fore".
Nov 21, 2021
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A University of Pennsylvania study published today in Nature Communications offers striking evidence that network science can be used to remove race and gender bias in clinical settings. The study, led by Professor Damon ...
Nov 15, 2021
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A new study published today reveals systematic biases among primary and HIV care providers about people who inject drugs and how those biases may impact access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a preventive, prescription-based ...
Nov 9, 2021
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Daily updates of COVID case numbers have been part of our pandemic lives. These numbers are reported, analyzed and widely shared. They're conversation starters, and with good reason.
Nov 3, 2021
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An analysis of PubMed papers has found that 87.7% of all human genes appear in at least one paper that also mentions cancer. In the analysis, appearing in a commentary publishing October 27th in the journal Trends in Genetics, ...
Oct 28, 2021
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Well before COVID-19 emerged, the World Health Organization identified vaccine hesitancy as one of the top threats to human health worldwide.
Oct 27, 2021
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Research about COVID's impact on the presence of bias in healthcare is in its infancy, but the pandemic appears to have "exacerbated biases already inherent in the healthcare system, especially socioeconomic ones," said, ...
Sep 20, 2021
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A new paper by Yale researchers finds racial disparities in the use of physical restraints on children who are admitted to the emergency department. Black children are more likely than White children to be subdued with restraints ...
Sep 14, 2021
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Faces that are judged as being stereotypically Black are also more likely to be judged as dominant and threatening, according to a study by researchers at Georgia State University that provides new insight about how specific ...
Aug 31, 2021
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Research studies show that Black patients can be subjected to wait times 30% longer than other patients at doctors' offices and other healthcare facilities, leaving little doubt about the biased nature of healthcare scheduling ...
Aug 23, 2021
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