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APRIL 24, 2024
After months of deliberation, the Colombian government has issued a compulsory license for an HIV medicine, the first time the country has taken such a step, one that also marks a significant move in the increasingly global battle over access to medicines.
STAT
MARCH 1, 2024
in 2020, many institutions confronted their own histories of racism, lack of diversity, and failures to consider the impact of structural inequities on public health. In the aftermath of the police murder of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests across the U.S. Read the rest…
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STAT
APRIL 24, 2024
Members of this year’s list (and a few past honorees) spoke about what issues in their fields — ranging from investment to clinical research to bedside treatment — need to be prioritized in order to improve health care across the U.S. and the rest of the world.
STAT
JULY 27, 2023
To narrow the nation’s deeply entrenched health disparities, a permanent entity with regulatory powers should be created by the president to oversee health equity efforts across the entire federal government, says a report issued Thursday by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.
STAT
MARCH 23, 2023
surgeon general Jerome Adams has emerged as a leading voice on public health and issues of equity in medicine from his new position as executive director of health equity initiatives at Purdue University, in his home state of Indiana. LOUIS — Anesthesiologist and former U.S.
STAT
AUGUST 1, 2023
Three large and growing physician groups backed by the private equity giant Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe have hired a prominent lobbying firm to influence federal policy covering mergers and acquisitions. Over the past two weeks, United Musculoskeletal Partners, U.S. Anesthesia Partners, and U.S. Forbes Tate also did not respond.
STAT
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Disparities along racial and socioeconomic lines have long persisted in health care. But it’s only somewhat recently that the health care industry’s often glitzy gatherings have started grappling with health equity, as the pandemic both widened health inequities and also demonstrated the potential of technology to tackle them.
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