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The AMA is one step closer to saying BMI is bogus, calling out its limitations and racial bias
The American Medical Association says BMI should be used with other health measures and tests becau…
Leah Rosenbaum
The CEO of Verge Genomics shares how she's overcome gender and age biases in biotech by showing people 'there can be a new way of doing things'
Alice Zhang said, "You attract investors and people that believe in you and want to work with you. …
Josée Rose
We've been thinking about loneliness all wrong
Everyone from the surgeon general to mental-health startups have misdiagnosed America's problem.
Eliza Relman
In an ocean of white data, this founder is trying to make AI less biased. Just don't call it 'BlackGPT.'
His startup, Latimer, is backed by Esther Dyson and is weaving Black data into AI model outputs.
Monica Melton
A busy colon-cancer doctor shares 3 simple things he does to prevent the disease that's killing more young people
Lifestyle choices can help prevent colon cancer. Oncologist Dr. Michael Shusterman shared three thi…
Kim Schewitz
Joy Buolamwini's 'Unmasking AI' unearths the bias in AI technologies and aims to hold Big Tech to account
'Unmasking AI' by Joy Buolamwini gives a human perspective on artificial intelligence and shares th…
Monica Melton
A woman with unexplained bleeding felt dismissed by her gynecologist. She swapped doctors and was diagnosed with cervical cancer.
A woman with HPV who had irregular bleeding was diagnosed with cervical cancer after two negative p…
Serafina Kenny
Weight wasn't the only thing I lost when I took a weight-loss drug
I knew weight-loss drugs would change my body. I wasn't prepared for what they would do to my brain.
Albert Fox Cahn
A doctor lost 50 pounds on a healthy diet and another 30 pounds on Mounjaro. She says weight loss drugs may be the 'easy way out' — but so what?
Dr. Betsy Grunch says shaming people for taking buzzy GLP-1 drugs like Mounjaro and Ozempic is like…
Rachel Hosie
FBI whistleblower exposes alleged pro-Trump bias at the bureau
In an exclusive interview with Insider FBI special agent Johnathan Buma alleges that the bureau was…
'Father of Modern Gynecology' J. Marion Sims performed dangerous 'experiments' on enslaved Black women without the use of anesthesia
His actions are a part of a troubling history of medical experimentation on Black Americans.
Brianna Holt
I was rejected on dating apps because of my disabilities, so I founded my own. People like me want to date and have casual sex, too.
Jacqueline Child says cofounding Dateability, a dating app for people with disabilities and chronic…
Kim Schewitz
Matthew Perry's death means hard questions for the ketamine movement
Ketamine contributed to Matthew Perry's death. Experts are grappling with how to talk about the dru…
Anna Silman
When fatphobia is disguised as wellness it hurts all of us, says author Aubrey Gordon. Here's how everyone can combat weight bias.
You can push back against diet culture with action steps to fight sneaky fatphobia in your own life…
Gabby Landsverk
Everyone has unconscious biases — here's how to identify, address, and overcome them
Implicit bias affects everyone and can be extremely detrimental in the workplace and healthcare and…
Kelly Burch,Brad Brenner
Lyft President Kristin Sverchek on 2024: 'I'm excited to just move — I have a bias towards action.'
After deciding to stay at Lyft in 2023, Kristin Sverchek is full of optimism for 2024, and a little…
Josée Rose
I'm a mom in my 30s who asked a 91-year-old man for a coffee date. He became one of my best friends.
A 34-year-old mom asked a 91-year-old man to grab coffee, and she says he's now one of her best fri…
Melissa Noble
PM Modi flags concerns over bias in AI; calls for ethical use
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called for a global framework for ethical use of Artificial …
PTI
Allergies may increase risk of developing long Covid: Study
People with pre-existing allergic conditions are more vulnerable to experience long-term symptoms a…
A doctor slams 'fat bias,' saying a patient 'could have lost his life' because other doctors chalked up his rash and pain to obesity
A man with joint pain, fatigue, and rashes saw doctors who chalked up his symptoms to morbid obesit…