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National Academies report cites ‘urgent’ need to recruit more diverse participants for clinical trials

17.05.2022

The persistent lack of diversity among participants in clinical trials is a critical issue that is harming both populations that have long been left out of pivotal medical studies and …

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Incoming JAMA editor says the journal’s issues handling race are ‘not unique to JAMA’

28.04.2022

In her most pointed public comments since her selection as JAMA editor-in-chief, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo acknowledged she had a visceral reaction to the podcast scandal that led to her predecessor’s departure. …

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First Opinion

Opinion: ‘Boards for All?’ Global health organizations and companies aren’t even close

28.04.2022

The age, gender, and ethnic diversity of a company or organization’s board is fundamental to its financial and operational success, helping it perform better, make more effective decisions, and emerge …

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Health

After accusations of structural racism at JAMA, a Black health-equity advocate is named the journal’s editor

11.04.2022

A year after the prestigious medical journal JAMA was embroiled in controversy over a podcast seen as racist by critics, the American Medical Association has appointed a prominent health-equity researcher …

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‘We don’t have a say’: Siobhan Wescott wants to elevate the voices of Native Americans in public health

05.04.2022

As the first endowed professor and director of American Indian health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s College of Public Health, Siobhan Wescott wears many hats and, often, a …

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Health

Even as medicine becomes more diverse, main authors in elite journals remain mostly white and male

31.03.2022

A new analysis of two of the nation’s most prestigious medical journals shows that women and people of color rarely served as lead or senior authors of research articles published …

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‘Where the bats hung out’: How a basement hideaway at UC Berkeley nurtured a generation of blind innovators

28.03.2022

BERKELEY, Calif. — If, in the fall of 1987, you found yourself at the University of California, Berkeley, and you made your way through the sloping, verdant campus to Moffitt …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Gaslighting of Black medical trainees makes residency something to ‘survive’

10.03.2022

Some say the lack of Black physicians is a pipeline problem, with too few Black people going to medical school. I say it’s a gaslighting problem. The health of Black …

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Biotech

‘Something is off here’: Black biotech entrepreneurs still struggle for funding as the industry pledges to diversify

04.03.2022

SAN DIEGO — Paul Mola tried his best to keep cool. But inside, he was reeling. On a mid-February afternoon, he spoke to a room of students and San Diego …

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