Science can find a cure for our diseases, but not for our societal ills.

The long read: Medical research and practice have long assumed a narrow definition of the ‘default’ human, badly compromising the care of anyone outside that category. How can this be fixed?

A Yale study finds older people living in less advantaged neighborhoods become disabled roughly two years earlier than their more affluent counterparts.

On this episode, we dive into the changing conversation about race and ethnicity in medicine. We hear stories about why it’s harder for Black Americans to get kidney transplants, why “Asian” is too broad of a category when it comes to public health, and how we could collect better, more meaningful data.

The study shows that people with lower income and education have worse lung health, even though air quality has improved in recent decades.

Lead screenings for children plummeted last spring, and stay-at-home orders may have increased household exposure to the toxic metal.

A family used their car to stay warm when a storm brought down the Texas power grid. In a state that doesn’t require CO alarms, they had no warning they were poisoning themselves.

This report describes racial and ethnic disparities in stress and worry, mental health, and substance use during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

This report describes COVID-19-associated mortality among American Indian and Alaska Native persons compared with non-Hispanic White persons.

This is a story about maps and death.

“If she was my mom, I would take her to the hospital,” Dr. P.J. Parmar said through a barely cracked car window to a refugee family from South Asia on April 11. Parmar, who runs Ardas Family Medicine in Aurora, had been the family’s doctor for years. He knew the woman sitting in the backseat […]