Hyacinth Empinado
Special Projects Editor, Multimedia at STAT
Multimedia Producer at The Readout LOUD
Special Projects Editor for Multimedia @Statnews
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1 month ago |
statnews.com | Isabella Cueto |Hyacinth Empinado
When psychiatrist Liz Frye first encounters a potential patient, she knows she is entering the conversation at a disadvantage. She works with people who are unhoused and living on the streets — many who’ve likely had negative experiences with health care workers in the past.
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2 months ago |
statnews.com | Hyacinth Empinado
For the Rev. Beth Stotts, death is a natural part of her ministry. A major aspect of her job is guiding her congregants through their most vulnerable moments from birth throughout life. The struggles she has seen in her community led her to seek more training to help people face death, and in 2022 she added another credential to her spiritual one: end-of-life doula.
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Dec 3, 2024 |
statnews.com | Hyacinth Empinado |Brittany Trang
Year after year, more Americans are affected by health care data breaches. Though health savings accounts, pharmacies, and major hospitals have all been attacked in 2024, a single data breach accounted for the vast majority of people’s data being exposed: Change Healthcare.
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Sep 16, 2024 |
statnews.com | Hyacinth Empinado |Helen Branswell
Hyacinth Empinado/STAT In August, the World Health Organization declared the mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and several other African countries a public health emergency of international concern. This is the second time in two years that mpox, formerly called monkeypox, has been listed as a PHEIC.
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Sep 2, 2024 |
statnews.com | Hyacinth Empinado
Algorithms are ubiquitous in medicine. They can take the form of a flowchart, a simple equation, or a complicated AI model, and are used to help clinicians diagnose diseases, predict the chances of survival, and determine if a patient is eligible for certain treatments. Many of these algorithms take a person’s race into account. For example, if the person is Black, a clinician may add or subtract a point from the patient’s score, which can affect their treatment.
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