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How one reporter covered the removal of race from common algorithms
In 2020, an NEJM publication highlighted the widespread misuse of race as a proxy for discrimination and genetic ancestry in medical algorithms. That publication and growing social awareness of the harms of racism re-invigorated long-simmering efforts to fix biases caused by the misuse of race. Since then, researchers and clinicians have worked to update old…
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How I Did It: From ‘internet rabbit hole’ to compelling series
Katie Palmer typically covers health technology. But when she stumbled across a paper about how a risk calculator might place Black women at higher risk of complications from a vaginal birth after a Cesarean section (VBAC), she found the topic “too interesting and important not to cover.” Katie Palmer This September, Palmer and her STAT…
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