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When Medicine Gets Personal: 5 Narratives That Moved Us This Year
This year’s community stories touched on the overdose crisis, sickle cell disease, and the mental health toll of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Top 5 HealthCity Stories of 2022: A Story of Equity and Innovation in Healthcare
This year's most popular stories include an audio series on medical residents' sleep health, LGBTQ clinician privacy, medical emergencies in the air, and more.

Parental Incarceration Leaves an Estimated 2.2 Million Children Without Medical Care
New research shines a spotlight on the vital need for early structural interventions to address care disparities children with an incarcerated parent face

First-of-Its-Kind Study Determines Best Treatment for Severe Peripheral Artery Disease
More than 200 million people have peripheral artery disease, but the best path of treatment for the most severe cases hasn't been studied until now.

How Medical Residents Can Improve Their Sleep: AUDIO
In the final part of our audio series, BMC sleep experts and residents dive into the science of sleep and how shift workers can achieve quality sleep.

Percentage of Black Academic Emergency Medicine Doctors Hasn't Grown in 30 Years
Black doctors in emergency medicine have only increased by 0.32% in the last three decades. And it’s likely hurting Black patients.

'A Cure Affordable for All': What Drives Jason and Devin McCourty's Sickle Cell Disease Advocacy
Inspired by their Aunt Winnie, the McCourty twins have made finding a cure for sickle cell disease a driving force of their life's work off the football field.

Is Healthy Sleep for Medical Residents Possible?: AUDIO
Through residents' sleep diaries and expert interviews, this audio series unpacks the gravity of sleep health.

Making the Case for Employer-Sponsored Addiction Treatment
In a hypothetical firm of 10,000 employees, researchers estimated $232,000 of lost wage value annually due to substance use disorder-related absenteeism.

Results of New Study Provide Hope for Patients Living With COPD
Advanced technology helps researchers hone in on gene function, informing development of treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.