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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

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In that introductory editorial, Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities, Ortega and Roby write that, “3 studies in this issue of JAMA show that access to and utilization of services is not merely predicated on health insurance or the availability of health care.

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Bill of Health’s Top 10 Posts of 2022

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As 2022 draws to a close, we’re looking back at the top ten most-read articles published on Bill of Health this year. Depoliticizing Social Murder in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Safety First: Potential Heart Health Risks of Microdosing. By Chloe Reichel. Browse the list below. The Mask-Optional DEI Initiative.

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The Journal of Law and the Biosciences’ Growing Impact

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this Article offers an evidence-based assessment of each of these assumptions. This article concludes by considering why the consequences and limitations of abortion bans should matter to supporters and opponents, alike. Second, they hope bans will send a message about abortion—specifically, that abortion is immoral.

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The Patient Safety Issue of Racial Disparities and the Opportunity for “Health Equity By Design”

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ECRI has published their annual Top 10 list since 2018, when the list featured diagnostic errors, o behavioral health needs in acute care settings, and patient engagement and health literacy — all of which play into this year’s #1 issue, racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

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Learning from the ‘COVID War’

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By Sam Friedman Amid an emergent international consensus that the COVID pandemic is “over,” writings about the pandemic and its meanings have burst forth like the flowers of June. This article will focus on one such book, Lessons from the COVID War: An Investigative Report.

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A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 3: We Have the Tools (Sept. – Dec. 2021)

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Over the summer of 2021, concern grew that the vaccines were not providing the near-perfect protection against symptomatic disease and transmission that had first emboldened the administration to jettison other public health measures. hit the hardest by COVID (largely the South, at that point) would not want to use tests.

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The Remarkable Rise of Pharma’s Reputation in the Pandemic

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Beth writes that, “a whopping two-thirds of Americans now offer a thumbs-up on pharma” as the title of her article, calling out the 30-point gain from 32% in January 2020 to 62% in February 2021. consumers trusted the biotech health industry segment compared with the pharmaceutical segment. Why was this the case?

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