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First Opinion

This week, First Opinion authors offered ways to end the Covid-19 pandemic as a global health threat, argued that preventing medical schools from considering race as part of the admissions process would harm Americans' health, and more. The 2022 STAT Summit starts in just nine days; check out the speakers and agenda here.

How the world can end Covid-19 as a public health threat

By Jeffrey V. Lazarus and Adeeba Kamarulzaman and Agnes Binagwaho

Adobe

400 experts from 100 countries created consensus recommendations to achieve changes needed to end Covid-19 as a public health threat.

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Exclude race from medical school admissions and students, patients, and the entire health care system lose out

By Lee Jones

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The implications of excluding race from university admissions processes would be felt across all sectors of society — including health care.

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Give Americans the right to save on health care

By Jonathan Wolfson and Josh Archambault

Adobe

The Patient's Right to Save Act would ensure that insurers won't penalize people for saving money with a cash-based option.

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Listen: Will opioid settlement money actually go to opioid prevention? Here's hoping

By Patrick Skerrett

As states begin to receive money from national opioid settlements, they may not be spending it on efforts that work to prevent addiction.

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Millions of Americans have health insurance that isn't 'good enough'

By David Blumenthal and Sara Collins

Adobe

For millions of Americans with health insurance, cost barriers and exclusions make it coverage in name only.

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Believers in science must take action when recommendations breach public health

By Scott Rivkees

Adobe

When officials make recommendations that endanger public health, those who believe in the foundation of science must take action.

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Respiratory infection surge sounds a wake-up call for pediatric emergency care

By Marc Auerbach

Adobe

The U.S.'s limited capacity for pediatric emergency care isn't new. The surge in respiratory infections is showing the depth of the problem.

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Hospitals need to make their websites as accessible as their physical spaces

By Amanda Krupa and Jill B. Roark and Kirsten Barrett

Adobe

Website accessibility should be as important to hospitals as accessibility to their buildings. A new study shows it isn't.

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STAT+: HHS's proposed rule prohibiting discrimination via algorithm needs strengthening

By Ashley Beecy and Steve Miff and Karandeep Singh

Adobe

Lax language and loopholes could thwart HHS's proposed rule to prohibit clinical algorithms from discriminating against individuals.

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Biopharma innovation needs to harness lessons learned from Covid-19

By Paul Hudson

Adobe

The innovative approaches biopharma companies adopted during the pandemic will revolutionize their work — and discoveries — going forward.

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Inconsistent clinical practices thwart wider use of personalized medicine

By Daryl Pritchard and Susanne Munksted

Adobe

The promise of personalized medicine isn't being fully met because of challenges implementing it in clinical practice.

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Sunday, November 6, 2022

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