A more nuanced approach has emerged: acknowledging that racial health disparities often reflect the effects of generations of systemic racism, such as lack of access to stable housing or nutritious food.
Physicians have long believed it’s good medicine to consider race in health care. But recently, rather than perpetuate the myth that race governs how bodies function, a more nuanced approach has emerged: acknowledging that racial health disparities often reflect the effects of generations of systemic racism, such as lack of access to stable housing or nutritious food.
After two days of deliberations, a Denver jury found DaVita and former CEO Kent Thiry not guilty of all charges relating to charges they conspired with competitors not to hire each other's senior managers.
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For many years, the universally used equation for estimating risk of kidney disease (the kidney function estimate, Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration [CKD-EPI] equation), included an adjustment for Black race that led to an upward correction in estimated glomerular
An analysis by researchers at the University of Chicago found that negative terms were more than twice as common in the digital records of Black patients than those of their White counterparts.