Jacque Smith

Ninety one thousand lives have been snatched by an unrelenting pandemic since the first state in the US reopened on April 24. Here are some of their stories.

Pulse oximeters, small devices that monitor oxygen levels, may not work well for people with dark skin, according to multiple studies and government health agencies.

Race correction in medicine is the use of a patient’s race in a scientific equation that can influence how they are treated. Race correction in medicine has pitted medical students against their teachers, attracted the attention of Congress and led to a big lawsuit against the NFL.

CNN journalist Jacque Smith’s New Year’s “microresolution” was to give up social media for a month. She knew she would still need to log into social accounts for work. But she wanted the incessant, absent-minded scrolling on social media to stop. Here’s what she learned.

Crooked cops. Drug dealers. Secret agendas. The rumor mill churned after the body of 18-year-old Jessica Currin was found burned and decomposing behind Mayfield Middle School in 2000. People in the small Kentucky town still talk about the case – or don’t want to talk at all, if an outsider is asking the questions. A jury deliberated for 3 hours and 45 minutes before convicting Quincy Omar Cross of murder, rape, sodomy, kidnapping, evidence tampering and abuse of a corpse in 2008 and sentence…