Everyone has a different concept of America. Ask any person on the street what America means to them, and you’ll get a different answer — ask a hundred, and you’ll get a hundred different answers.

In a functioning system, the kind of placebo-controlled vaccine trials that Secretary Kennedy is calling for would never get ...

Racial inequities in health care and research have long been a problem. Increasing the number of Black participants in ...

Tina, a 58-year-old Black woman living in the Delta, is Mississippi born and raised.[1] She raised four children and spent ...

Historical injustices like the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment and the forced sterilization of Black women fostered deep mistrust in the healthcare system. These tragedies, and many others, must be ...

Northwestern University hasn’t received any funding from the NIH since the end of March. Not only could patients potentially ...

Aria Trivedi is a biology major with a minor in biotechnology, and she is a 2024-25 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own.

A systems-level approach to transforming health care centers structural racism as a root cause of disparities, offering a ...