Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.

Earlier this year, Strava announced Performance Predictions for subscribers, a feature that estimates current 5K, 10K, half ...

In the high-stakes world of motorsport, race engineers rely heavily on telemetry to make instantaneous decisions that could ...

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 ...

Jazmin Evans was diagnosed with kidney disease at the age of 17 in 2012. She received a kidney transplant in July 2023, after being on the transplant wait list for four years. Today, a year and a half ...

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 ...