There is increasing evidence that implicit bias—non-conscious attitudes toward specific groups—is a source of racial inequities in certain aspects of health care, and lawmakers are taking note.
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Neuroscientists have revealed that recency bias in working memory naturally leads to central tendency bias, the phenomenon where people's (and animals') judgements are biased towards the average of previous observations. ...
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Countless times, Kenda Sutton-El, a Virginia doula, has witnessed her Black pregnant clients being dismissed or ignored by clinicians.
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A report published Monday, 11 March 2024, details the findings of the Independent Review of Equity in Medical Devices.
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Los Angeles anesthesiologist Marilyn Singleton was outraged about a California requirement that every continuing medical education course include training in implicit bias—the ways in which physicians' unconscious attitudes ...
Mar 5, 2024
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Putting off a burdensome task may seem like a universal trait, but new research suggests that people whose negative attitudes tend to dictate their behavior in a range of situations are more likely to delay tackling the task ...
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If you're planning to celebrate Valentine's Day with a new partner, there's a good chance that you met online, which surveys suggest is fast becoming the most popular way people get together. Of course, searching through ...
Feb 13, 2024
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Charity Watkins sensed something was deeply wrong when she experienced exhaustion after her daughter was born.
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Rapid-acting antidepressants, including ketamine, scopolamine and psilocybin, have been found to have immediate and lasting positive effects on mood in patients with major depressive disorder but how these effects arise is ...
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Adoption of the Milestone ratings system in 2014 was associated with improvement in internal medicine (IM) residency knowledge ratings bias in Black or Latino residents, who are underrepresented in medicine (URiM), and Asian ...
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