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It’s been two years since the Supreme Court banned racial discrimination in college admissions. Nonetheless, at medical ...
Federal officials freeze Duke Health's $108 million grant funding over concerns that its diversity, equity and inclusion ...
Race-based medicine is defined as “a system that treats race as a biological variable and, when translated into clinical practice, leads to racial health inequities” according to the director of ...
Applicants could receive as many as 10 points for writing about how their “membership in an underrepresented group” would ...
Last July, a team of physicians and researchers successfully proposed modifications to the American Medical Association (AMA) ...
The unintended consequence was that researchers started using race as an independent variable. Very few research studies define race, yet many make claims about racial differences. Notable examples of ...
More than 14,000 kidney transplant candidates were moved up the waitlist thanks to the new evaluation. Experts say this is an example of identifying the inappropriate use of race in medical care.
For example, the Maternal Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network’s Vaginal Birth after Cesarean (VBAC) calculator requires the input of patient information, such as age, weight, obstetric history, and ...
A recent study found that AI deep learning models can be trained to identify race in these same medical images. Something radiologists could only determine with 50 percent accuracy.