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Re-Tweeting Sanofi’s Tweet: Inclusion Matters for Health, Wellness, and the Body Politic

Health Populi

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The uniquely American challenge of health disparities, especially relating to race, is a topic I’ve covered many times since the launch of Health Populi in 2007. Loving one another is the ultimate social determinant of health.

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FDA’s Promised Rules on Pulse Oximeters Unlikely To End Decades of Racial Bias

Kaiser Health News

senators have pressed the FDA to take steps to eliminate pulse oximetry’s racial bias, which has caused delays in treatment and worse health outcomes, and more recently has raised concern about the reliability of hospital AI tools that draw on reams of data from the devices. .” State attorneys general and U.S.

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Americans Lost Future Life-Years in 2020: How Much Life Was Lost Depends on the Color of One’s Skin

Health Populi

. “Provisional life expectancy at birth in the first half of 2020 was the lowest level since 2006 for both the total population and for males, and was the lowest level since 2007 for females,” the report observes. The Sum of Us, a new book by Heather McGhee, details the many flavors of inequities that put the U.S.

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An End to “Springing Forward”: The Case for Permanent Standard Time

Bill of Health

Below, I review the history of DST and argue that permanent ST would yield better health outcomes. A 2007 amendment to the Uniform Time Act extended DST to its current timeline from March to November. However, either option would be an improvement over the current approach.