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Liz Szabo

Liz Szabo

Liz Szabo, senior correspondent for KFF Health News, has covered medicine for two decades. Her stories about cancer and overtreatment for KFF Health News have won numerous awards. She also was a finalist for the Gerald Loeb and NIHCM (National Institute for Health Care Management) awards. Before coming to KFF Health News, Szabo covered medicine for USA Today for nearly 13 years. Her coverage of mental health and the link between poor health and substandard housing helped her earn the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting in 2016.

Study reveals staggering toll of being Black in America: 1.6M excess deaths over 22 years
By: - May 25, 2023

Research has long shown that Black people live sicker lives and die younger than white people. Now a new study, published last week in JAMA, casts the nation’s racial inequities in stark relief, finding that the higher mortality rate among Black Americans resulted in 1.63 million excess deaths relative to white Americans over more than […]