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A meta-analysis of more than 155,000 children finds mortality is elevated even at oxygen saturations of 90–94%, above the threshold at which WHO advises hospital oxygen.
The beliefs — that Black patients' skin is thicker, their nerve endings less sensitive — predicted lower pain ratings and less accurate treatment recommendations for a Black patient in the same experiment.
The reform followed an investigation into training quality at some foreign schools. It is also projected to disproportionately affect Arab professionals, a large share of those graduates.
The national framework tracking First Nations health finds real progress on smoking, education and specific diseases, alongside no movement on infant mortality and worsening suicide.
Fatal disease burden fell 10% in two decades. Non-fatal burden — the toll of living with illness rather than dying from it — rose 7% over the same period. Mental health diagnoses in young adults nearly doubled.
A national analysis of 2,985 haemorrhage deaths from 2015 to 2024 found no significant change over time — and Indigenous women dying at 2.87 times the rate of White women.
A Lancet Digital Health scoping review found the field's fairness metrics fragmented and rarely clinically validated. A second review found that most studies don't measure fairness at all.
A 121-country model finds health-system emissions are as unequally distributed as the care itself — and that cutting them may not require cutting care.
A modelling analysis puts 2.75 million children under five in sub-Saharan Africa living with sickle cell disease. Seven African countries have transplant programmes; approved gene therapies cost millions.
A global estimate across 8,919 urban areas finds both numbers are true at once — and that the cooling lands hardest in the places that need it least.
A study running 5.3 million evaluations through nine large language models found eligibility judgments were largely stable across identity labels — except when a patient vignette mentioned homelessness.
A linked-registry cohort of New South Wales residents from 2001 to 2018 finds cancer risk in people with intellectual disability inverts with age — higher when young, lower after 50.
A 14-year national analysis finds temperature-related death rates rising fastest in the group that started highest — and the same pattern in cold deaths, which fell for everyone else.
An 11,018-measurement study in 24 English intensive care units found false negative rates up to 35.3 percentage points higher in patients with darker skin tones. A neonatal study published two days later did not.
In 132 Minnesota school athletes, each step up a housing-based measure of socioeconomic status predicted about 24% fewer days to return-to-play clearance. Childhood adversity did not lengthen recovery.
Physicians editing AI drafts wrote better notes than they did unaided, and worse notes than the AI produced alone. Both directions of that result matter.
Across 90,670 virtual encounters at one US health system, phone visits scored lower on likelihood to recommend. A separate VA cohort of 1.2 million found telehealth cut same-day mental health access sharply.