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Washington University is backing the “Healthcare for Missouri” initiative — an effort to expand the state’s Medicaid program.

Will Ross, MD explains why and how he’s spent his career trying to alleviate massive racial disparities in health outcomes on an episode of “We live Here” on St. Louis Public Radio.

“If we’re going to make a difference in health outcomes, these are the people who have the answers – the people who are in the community, who have the lived experience, who know where the assets and resources are, who know why they don’t want to go to certain doctors or hospitals,” Wilkins said. “The community sometimes has a good reason to not trust institutions and providers – because they’re not trustworthy.”

Medical challenges at birth less important than stressful home life in predicting future psychiatric health

First-year medical student Rachel Butler on her class’s intro to the school and the power and positivity of the white coat

With a focus on violence as a public health epidemic, Dr. Punch will discuss barriers and opportunities in reducing bullet injuries.

Gratitude, truth and perseverance: Washington University School of Medicine celebrates the Class of 2019.

“The moral arc of the universe only bends toward justice because we lean on it,” says Davis, the founding director of the new Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity.

As a member of Better Together’s City-County Governance Task Force, I concur with the general sentiment that our cause needs a serious restructuring

Drake, an associate professor of surgery in the Division of Public Health Sciences, began researching prostate cancer as a doctoral student at the University of South Carolina, in a state where African-American men are almost three times more likely to die of prostate cancer than white men — often due to missed diagnoses. The survival rate for prostate cancer, if caught early, is normally 95-100 percent.