Diversity in Medicine
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Why do clinical trials still underrepresent minority groups?
The FDA wants researchers conducting clinical trials to submit a plan on how they will diversify participant pools. While the effort to undo...
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Medical education programs tell how climate change affects health
Medical schools are educating the next generation of doctors on one of the most widespread, insidious health threats of our time.
Conference Coverage
Telehealth continues to loom large, say experts
Nine out of ten patients would recommend telemedicine to friends and family, and most physicians say they’re willing to devote significant time to...
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Fetuses suffer the effects of poverty in the womb
Across the countries studied, babies were smaller at birth if they came from a lower-income household, and this was already apparent at 20 weeks...
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More medical schools build training in transgender care
Students and faculty identify gaps, such as a severe shortage of transgender instructors, and expand goals for training.
Behavioral Consult
What can be new about developmental milestones?
While the milestones we were trained on were a good start and highlighted the developmental progression central to pediatrics, they were not based...
Child Psychiatry Consult
Transgender youth: Bringing evidence to the political debates
As clinicians and scientists, we have a responsibility to highlight the data relevant to these legislative debates, and to...
Commentary
How social drivers of health lead to physician burnout
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Racial disparities seen in pediatric postoperative mortality rates
The results showed that postoperative mortality rates were significantly higher in Black children in the highest income category, compared with...
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U.S. primary care seen lagging in key markers
In delivery of primary care, including access and coordination, the U.S. trails well behind 10 other wealthy countries, according to a new report...
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Food insecurity linked to metabolic syndrome in Hispanic/Latino youth
Youth in the lowest food security category had significantly lower HDL-C compared with youth with high food security.