President Biden’s and President Trump’s pardons have generated a lot of controversy. But there are considerable differences between the two sets of pardons, with a two-tiered system of justice ...

Medicare’s 1966 implementation desegregated hospitals, yet racial disparities in access and treatment persisted, fueled by implicit bias and uneven distribution of resources. Opinion:Black women ...

Ten years ago, I was in the hospital battling Ebola. My fever rarely relented. I felt so weak that getting up was a herculean task, attempted only a few times a day. Having treated patients with ...

Those are some of the findings from new data released Jan. 16 by the U.S. Department of Education’s office for civil rights, which show the persistence of longstanding disparities in the nation ...

Racial disparities decreased slightly, but sex disparities increased significantly over 20-year period Fewer Black people and men underwent weight loss surgery than other racial groups and women ...

The study was published online March 13 in the American Journal of Public Health. The new findings also suggest that injury disparities among racial groups are underestimated when looking only at ...

These gains in coverage were larger for members of minority groups, and as a result, coverage disparities declined. To highlight the changes associated with the ACA, exhibit 2 presents data on ...