November 20, 2020
(STAT News) – As the Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the racial inequalities in the United States’ healthcare system, entrepreneurs in genetic research are speaking out about the importance of encouraging community outreach to combat those disparities and increasing diversity … Read More
November 18, 2020
(Nature) – In September 2019, four researchers wrote to the publisher Wiley to “respectfully ask” that it immediately retract a scientific paper. The study, published in 2018, had trained algorithms to distinguish faces of Uyghur people, a predominantly Muslim minority … Read More
November 17, 2020
(BBC) – Vulnerable women are being preyed on in Nairobi to feed a thriving black market for babies. Over the course of a year-long investigation, Africa Eye has found evidence of children being snatched from homeless mothers and sold for … Read More
November 5, 2020
(STAT News) – Her experience, in some ways, mirrors the challenges many Black women face after a breast cancer diagnosis in the U.S., experts say. A recent analysis found that several barriers to health care meant that more Black women … Read More
October 30, 2020
(Nature) – A major biomedical-research organization has for the first time aimed to make financial reparation for the continuing experimental use of cells from Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose unknowing donation gave rise to the historic ‘HeLa’ cell line, … Read More
October 28, 2020
(The Guardian) – Almost 100,000 children under the age of five are at risk of dying in Yemen as the country slides back into a hunger crisis. An analysis by UN agencies says the coronavirus pandemic, economic problems and conflict … Read More
October 23, 2020
(NEJM) – he most severe Covid-19 outbreaks in the United States are no longer occurring in nursing homes or meat-packing plants, but in correctional facilities. Incarcerated populations are especially vulnerable to acquiring infectious diseases like Covid-19 because of factors including … Read More
October 22, 2020
(The Guardian) – China has warned Canadian lawmakers to halt their “blatant interference” in its internal affairs, in the latest episode of a rumbling diplomatic feud between the two nations. Earlier this week, a Canadian parliamentary committee concluded China’s actions … Read More
October 13, 2020
(STAT News) – A STAT investigation found that a common method of using analytics software to target medical services to patients who need them most is infusing racial bias into decision-making about who should receive stepped-up care. While a study … Read More
October 6, 2020
(New York Times) – The Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga., drew national attention this month after a nurse, Dawn Wooten, filed a whistle-blower complaint claiming that detainees had told her they had had their uteruses removed without their … Read More
