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Using zip codes instead of race to predict heart risk

September 6, 2024

Upending a longstanding paradigm, cardiologists embrace ZIP codes, not race, to predict heart risk

Part 4 of a STAT series on racial health disparities: Why cardiologists began using ZIP codes, not race, to predict the risk of heart attack or stroke

By Katie Palmer


STAT+ | Ascension, other hospitals played active roles to take medical billing company R1 RCM private

R1's customers played a big role in pushing the firm to take an $8.9 billion private equity buyout.

By Bob Herman


Opinion: Gaza polio vaccination drive must include measles shots

The current Gaza polio vaccination drive should also offer shots against one of the most highly transmissible diseases known: measles.

By Robert Steinglass, Phillip Nieburg, and Ron Waldman



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Opinion: Presidential debate moderators should ask about mental health policy

Neither Trump nor Harris has substantively addressed the mental health crisis. That needs to change.

By Mary Giliberti


STAT+ | Vor Biopharma's 'shielded' transplant delays relapse in leukemia patients

Eight of 10 patients with high-risk acute myeloid leukemia remain in remission after receiving a transplant, followed by maintenance treatment.

By Adam Feuerstein


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