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Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 1

Artificial intelligence could revolutionize health care. It could also perpetuate and exacerbate generations of racial inequities.

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The ‘Reverse Disparity’ in Psychosis Care

We explore what it’s like to experience psychosis and why it can be so difficult for patients to get effective treatment.

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The Wonky Policy That’s Got Hospitals on High Alert

Medicare could soon pay hospitals much less for common outpatient services like x-rays and checkups.

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How ‘Random Acts of Medicine’ Shape Our Health Care

We talk with Bapu Jena, coauthor of a new book about how fate, mental mistakes and other unseen forces affect the care we receive.

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The Drugs Changing How We Treat Obesity

A new class of drugs can help people lose weight and manage serious health conditions. But they’re also raising difficult questions.

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Hospice Care’s Midlife Crisis

Medicare is testing some major changes to its 40-year-old hospice benefit.

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The Latest Threat to the Affordable Care Act

ACA expert Nicholas Bagley breaks down the court ruling striking down the popular requirement for insurers to offer free preventive care services.

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The Treacherous Transition Awaiting Millions Losing Their Medicaid

We dig into three studies to make sense of what will happen to 15 million people set to lose their Medicaid over the next year.

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When Home Becomes a Hospital

What have we learned from the pandemic-feuled expansion of hospital-at-home care?

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The Conservative Clash Over Abortion Bans

Republican lawmakers in at least seven states are pushing to make their state abortion bans less restrictive.

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