Have you ever watched a NASCAR race and thought about how much planning goes on behind the scenes before a car even rolls ...

This is Part 1 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. Pediatrician Alexandra Epee-Bounya had had enough. In ...

WASHINGTON — Biomedical researchers should change the way they use race and ethnicity in their research, says a new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report, calling on ...

In 2021, states had to choose how to distribute a scarce number of Covid-19 vaccines. One approach was to do so based on individuals’ risk of death from the virus. Another was to do so geographically, ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. A large government study published Thursday shows more definitively ...

Horse racing is as much a part of American leisure history as baseball. Yet, understanding how to read a racing form and place bets at a horse race can seem intimidating for a novice. This guide aims ...

There is no complex science behind what straight-cut gears are. It's exactly as it sounds, gears with teeth that run straight out from the center of the wheel, rather than slanting in a spiral. The ...