Black & Hispanic Medicare beneficiaries are disproportionally enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) vs traditional Medicare (TM). A new study finds that Black MA beneficiaries used more preventive care (vs. TM), but Black-white inequities in preventive care use still persisted. tinyurl.com/mraaeyvt

🗓️ Tuesday, October 28, 2025 @ 4:30 PM ET 🗓️ Don't miss our next #SocialMedicine Rounds: "Youth Represent’s Vision for Transformative Legal Advocacy" Register here: tinyurl.com/typy39h (1/4)

A new maternal health study finds that, compared to white expectant mothers, Black expectant mothers had higher risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, including chronic hypertension & gestational hypertension/preeclampsia. Read more by Hailu, Carmichael & Snowden et al.: tinyurl.com/ye8mtadt

A recent review examines the role of implicit bias in healthcare delivery and the effectiveness of mitigation strategies, finding mixed results -- but stereotype replacement and intergroup contact consistently showed measurable positive effects. Read more by Campbell (2025): tinyurl.com/26aj8wxa

A recent review examines the role of implicit bias in healthcare delivery and the effectiveness of mitigation strategies, finding mixed results -- but stereotype replacement and intergroup contact consistently showed measurable positive effects. Read more by Campbell (2025): tinyurl.com/26aj8wxa

🗓️ Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025 @ 3 PM ET / 12 PM PT 🗓️ Join @civichealthall.bsky.social & @drsforamerica.bsky.social for a special webinar: “Storytellers for Resistance: Healthcare Advocacy Post H.R.1" Register here: tinyurl.com/59y6y64f 🧵 1/

A new scoping review highlights pervasive structural racism across institutional & societal systems (healthcare, housing, the criminal legal system, & other sectors) that perpetuates health inequities. Read more by Kisa & Kisa: tinyurl.com/484csdz9 (1/2)

A new study finds that, relative to those w/ private health insurance, adults w/ public or no health insurance exhibit greater depressive symptoms during midlife -- and the severity of symptoms varies considerably across race & ethnicity. Read more by Zhang et al.: tinyurl.com/472xwr2e

🗓️ Tuesday, October 28, 2025 @ 4:30 PM ET 🗓️ Don't miss our next #SocialMedicine Rounds: "Youth Represent’s Vision for Transformative Legal Advocacy" Register here: tinyurl.com/typy39h (1/4)

A new study finds that COVID-19 infection, & the pandemic period broadly, had the strongest adverse implications for perinatal outcomes among marginalized racial & ethnic groups -- particularly among Hispanic, Asian, & Black pregnant people. Read more by Liu et al.: tinyurl.com/2u44e6ru

A new @kff.org policy brief reviews the Trump administration's efforts to eliminate health equity initiatives and remove sociodemographic variables -- including racial, ethnic, and gender-identity data -- from online datasets and reports. Read more: tinyurl.com/bavktfnx

A new study by Sneha Kannan et al. finds that private-equity acquisition of hospitals is associated w/ increased patient transfers, reduced ICU lengths of stay, & increased ED mortality -- likely due to reductions in staff & salaries. Read more via @annalsofim.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/424ktazu

🗓️ Tuesday, August 26, 2025 @ 4:30 PM ET 🗓️ Don't miss our next #SocialMedicine Rounds: “Our Brother’s Keepers”: Protecting the Health Needs of Foreign-Born Residents Register here: tinyurl.com/4fzamd2n (1/3)

A recent @jama.com study shows that the introduction of immunotherapy in individuals with newly-diagnosed cancers widens the survival inequity between privately insured and uninsured patients. Read more by Zhao et al.: tinyurl.com/mu6zbhv9

A new @npr.com piece spotlights ACA enrollees, many of whom are managing chronic health conditions, who face premium spikes of ~75% next year when federal tax credits expire: tinyurl.com/4k7tat62 How much will your ACA coverage increase? Find out via the @kff.org tool: tinyurl.com/5n77upty

📅 Join us on Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from 6–7:15 PM ET for the next Thriving in the Last Mile workshop. 🔗 To learn more or register, visit thrivinginthelastmile.com Please share this with anyone who may be interested!

A new @healthjournalism.org piece by @larasalahi.bsky.social highlights the fallout of NIH funding cuts on health equity research -- and provides resources to find reliable data and coverage. Read the post: tinyurl.com/zncaxfa3

🗓️ Tuesday, August 26, 2025 @ 4:30 PM ET 🗓️ Don't miss our next #SocialMedicine Rounds: “Our Brother’s Keepers”: Protecting the Health Needs of Foreign-Born Residents Register here: tinyurl.com/4fzamd2n (1/3)

A new study in plosone.org reveals an unexpected link between socioeconomic disadvantage & inpatient hospitalizations in LGBTQ+ older adults. The majority (64%) of hospitalized LGBTQ+ patients in the sample resided in areas of low, not moderate/high, socioeconomic disadvantage: tinyurl.com/jv5rtd26

In a new piece in @theatlantic.com, Dr. Craig Spencer (@craigspencer.bsky.social) argues that the White House's AI Action Plan is one of the most consequential health policies of Trump's second term, as it risks hardwiring bias into the future of American medicine. Read more: tinyurl.com/55cfbmub

Are you an early-career trainee or attending physician of color interested in learning how to survive -- and thrive -- despite toxic or discriminatory work environments? Join us for the FREE Thriving in the Last Mile workshop, led by Dr. Stella Safo! Join now: thrivinginthelastmile.com

Are you an early-career trainee or attending physician of color interested in learning how to survive -- and thrive -- despite toxic or discriminatory work environments? Join us for the FREE Thriving in the Last Mile workshop, led by Dr. Stella Safo! Join now: thrivinginthelastmile.com

In a new @nejm.org article, @rohankhaz.bsky.social et al. call for a shift away from race-based evaluation of occupational pulmonary impairment, noting that race-neutral PFT equations better predict clinically meaningful outcomes like respiratory symptoms. Read more: tinyurl.com/25rtkmsk

🗓️ Tuesday, August 26, 2025 @ 4:30 PM ET 🗓️ Don't miss our next #SocialMedicine Rounds: "What Now? Providing Care After the Passage of the H.R. 1 Bill" Register here: tinyurl.com/3bfbktn6 (1/4)

Are you an early-career trainee or attending physician of color interested in learning how to survive -- and thrive -- despite toxic or discriminatory work environments? Join us for the FREE Thriving in the Last Mile workshop, led by Dr. Stella Safo! Join now: thrivinginthelastmile.com

A new study shows that the Black-white inequity in maternal mortality widened during the COVID-19 pandemic and persists in its aftermath. Maternal mortality rates returned to near-pre-pandemic levels in white individuals, but were sustained for Black individuals. Read more: tinyurl.com/2kdzp5rx

🗓️ Tuesday, August 26, 2025 @ 4:30 PM ET 🗓️ Don't miss our next #SocialMedicine Rounds: "What Now? Providing Care After the Passage of the H.R. 1 Bill" Register here: tinyurl.com/3bfbktn6 (1/4)

Are you an early-career trainee or attending physician of color interested in learning how to survive -- and thrive -- despite toxic or discriminatory work environments? Join us for the FREE Thriving in the Last Mile workshop, led by Dr. Stella Safo! Learn more: thrivinginthelastmile.com

Historically redlined communities experience slower EMS response times, a new @jama.com study finds. Areas that were historically Grade D had a higher proportion of residents without rapid EMS compared with Grade A areas. Read the study by @cberrytraumamd.bsky.social et al.: tinyurl.com/5wtb2226

🗓️ Tuesday, August 26, 2025 @ 4:30 PM ET 🗓️ Don't miss our next #SocialMedicine Rounds: "What Now? Providing Care After the Passage of the H.R. 1 Bill" Register here: tinyurl.com/3bfbktn6 (1/4)

In 2020, the HRSA launched the first initiative focused on Black women in nearly 40 years of the HIV epidemic: The Black Women First Initiative. In a new essay, BWF members highlight how Black women's disproportionate burden of HIV/AIDS burden is rooted in racism, not race. tinyurl.com/24ure9fe

🗓️ Tuesday, August 26, 2025 @ 4:30 PM ET 🗓️ Don't miss our next #SocialMedicine Rounds: "What Now? Providing Care After the Passage of the H.R. 1 Bill" Register here: tinyurl.com/3bfbktn6 (1/4)

In a new @Kffhealthnews.org story, reporter Jess Mador interviews Tanisha Corporal, a Georgia social worker whose mission to retain her Medicaid coverage was mired in red tape. Under the Big, Brutal Bill, millions of Medicaid recipients may face the same challenges. Read more: tinyurl.com/3n985kpx

A new @nature.com study finds that that Black multiracial, American Indian/Alaska Native multiracial, & Other multiracial individuals report poorer mental & physical health despite higher socioeconomic status compared to their monoracial counterparts. Read more by Choi et al: tinyurl.com/ye23zxrw

A new study in @annalsofim.bsky.social finds that people with social risk factors at the time of contracting SARS-CoV-2 had a greater risk of developing long COVID than those with more favorable social determinants of health. Read the study by Feldman et al.: tinyurl.com/45cj97at (1/2)

AI in healthcare could improve diagnosis, personalize care, & streamline workflows -- but issues like ethical concerns, including racial & ethnic biases, still stand in the way of AI's widespread adoption in the industry. Read more from Turgay Ayer in @theconversation.com: tinyurl.com/5n8ekw3e

A new @kff.org brief describes the racial & ethnic makeup of the U.S. physician workforce according to recent estimates, and shows that Black, Hispanic, and NH/PI people are underrepresented among physicians relative to their share of the population. Read more: tinyurl.com/cm29yfkd (1/2)

🗓️ Tuesday, July 22, 2025 @ 4:30 PM ET 🗓️ Don't miss our next #SocialMedicine Rounds: "Embracing End of Life Care in Healthcare and Beyond” Register here: tinyurl.com/3sp6dmj8 (1/4)

🗓️ Tuesday, July 22, 2025 @ 4:30 PM ET 🗓️ Don't miss our next #SocialMedicine Rounds: "Embracing End of Life Care in Healthcare and Beyond” Register here: tinyurl.com/3sp6dmj8 (1/4)

This month, @kffhealthnews.org reporters hit the airwaves to discuss implications of the GOP megabill on U.S. healthcare, from the presence of ICE at healthcare facilities to major cuts in rural areas. Listen to these stories here: tinyurl.com/y8pbyn59

A new @jama.com study finds that Black patients presenting to the ED with opioid overdose are significantly less likely than white patients to receive outpatient treatment referrals. Read the study by Shastry et al.: tinyurl.com/3r279nuy

When are HCPs ethically obligated to engage in advocacy? In a new piece in @thelancet.com, Matt Wynia et al. argue that HCPs are obliged to advocate against gov. actions that harm health & violate rights in domains where they have unique access, expertise, and public trust: tinyurl.com/4c344ucc

The recent SCOTUS ruling in Medina vs. Planned Parenthood means that Medicaid enrollees in South Carolina -- & in other states going forward -- will not be able to use their coverage to obtain preventive services, such as contraceptives, from PP clinics. Read more via @kff.org: tinyurl.com/ms6w67b2

In a new @motherjones.com piece, reporter Nina Martin highlights how the GOP's "Big, Beautiful Bill" -- which cleared the Senate Tuesday -- will have devastating consequences for rural hospitals, particularly by dismantling healthcare services for mothers and infants: tinyurl.com/5n8ratvz

With looming cuts to federal funding and widespread bans on gender-affirming care, the state of trans healthcare in the U.S. is grim. Read more from @emotrophywife.bsky.social in @newyorker.com: tinyurl.com/46f5nr2a

Last week, the #SCOTUS upheld a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors. @KFF.org's @lindseydawson.bsky.social & @lauriesobel.bsky.social review the decision and its implications: tinyurl.com/2ecvxctr

A new study published in Obesity finds that, following sleeve gastrectomy, non-Hispanic Black patients experience higher perceived discrimination, sleep disturbance, and perceived stress than non-Hispanic white patients. Read more in this paper by Sally M. Vanegas et al.: tinyurl.com/4c3mb4up

The @commonwealthfund.org‬'s 2025 Scorecard on State Health System Performance shows state-by-state variability on 50 measures of health equity. Though all states have reduced uninsured rates over the last decade, federal rollbacks & coverage cuts could reverse such progress: tinyurl.com/3bfzj6u7

A recent national cohort study found that, between 2017 and 2021, female physicians had a significantly higher suicide incidence than the female general population, while male physicians had a significantly lower suicide incidence than the general male population. Read more: tinyurl.com/yucc36y5

In a new piece via @kffhealthnews.org, Julie Appleby highlights 4 ways ways that Trump's “One Big Beautiful Bill” could undermine access to and enrollment in Obamacare -- through enrollment hoops, delays for life events, shortened sign-up windows, & increased costs. Read more: tinyurl.com/yc5byaf6