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AMA Foundation Revived Racial Preferences After IRS Complaint, Medical Watchdog Claims

The American Medical Association Foundation has revived racial preferences in its scholarships for medical students, the watchdog Do No Harm alleges.

Do No Harm sent a letter to the IRS in April, noting that some of the foundation’s scholarships explicitly stated that only medical students of certain races qualify. While the foundation initially removed the scholarship opportunities from its website, it appears to have restored them.

“Simply put, these valuable and lucrative scholarship opportunities cannot be awarded based on race,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at Do No Harm, told the Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday.

“The AMA Foundation has done little to remedy the substantial problems identified in our original complaint regarding its Physicians of Tomorrow program,” Miceli said. “Months later, race-based scholarships remain in place, having undergone only superficial changes.”

Read more at the Daily Signal.

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Paxton flips Texas Children’s Hospital from transgender hub to detransition clinic

Texas has successfully transformed one of the main operating bases of the “trans” regime into a refuge for the regime’s victims.

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“This is an important step toward caring for a group of patients who have long been overlooked,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at the medical advocacy group Do No Harm, said in a statement to Blaze News. “Detransitioners have suffered because of the lies sold to them by transgender activists. Their struggles were often dismissed or ignored by the medical establishment. Yet they deserve as much support and care as we can give.”

Miceli added, “The Detransition Clinic at Texas Children’s is a step in the right direction. We hope to see more hospitals open similar clinics, without the Department of Justice having to step in.”

Read more at the Blaze.

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Abdul El-Sayed Said Assimilating To America Is Health Hazard In Academic Papers

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, has emphasized his experience as a public health official serving the everyman, but his public health scholarship argues against American values in academic jargon.

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“It’s pretty radical in the sense that it seems to be basically advocating Arab separatism and isolation by couching it in pseudoscientific terms,” Ian Kingsbury, senior director of the Center for Accountability in Medicine at Do No Harm, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Read more at the Daily Caller.

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These Democrat Donors Should Concern Americans

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Democratic candidates are raking in donations this election season for all kinds of reasons, but one source of funding is deeply concerning. The people who staff America’s leading medical societies are overwhelmingly backing Democratic politicians, party committees, and political action committees. Regardless of which party prevails on Election Day, Americans should be very worried about the politicization of health care in this country.

We have reviewed federal election records to document political donations from staff at 10 of the nation’s leading medical societies. The list includes the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, and more. Only one organization – the Pediatric Endocrine Society – had no recorded donations. But at the other nine, donations overwhelmingly favored liberal candidates.

Read more at RealClear Politics.

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Top Medical Journal Publishes Op-Ed Against Parents Rights To Stop Child Sex Changes

A prestigious medical journal published an opinion piece that claimed giving parents’ the right to make their child’s healthcare decisions is a threat to physicians providing care.

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) — arguably one of the most affluent publications in the world — published an opinion article on Oct. 12, written by two health service academics who argued that parents making healthcare decisions for their children — such as preventing them from getting sex-change surgery — threatens a child’s access to care and a physician’s ability to provide it.

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“That JAMA allows commentary on their official page to take such a radical and unscientific position is highly concerning,” Ian Kingsbury, Researcher and Director of the Center for Accountability In Medicine at Do No Harm — a policy organization opposing child sex changes — told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “There is no evidence to support transgender inventions on minors, including social transition. JAMA publishing this commentary shows how captured by transgender activists much of the medical establishment is. JAMA should drop the fringe ideologues and focus on high-quality, evidence-based science.”

Read more at the Daily Caller.

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Activist Psychiatrists Are Afraid of Evidence

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Who’s afraid of evidence-based medicine? The answer, regrettably, is the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, or Aacap.

The organization—which strongly influences parents, policymakers and medical practice—has rebuffed our separate attempts to hold discussions on childhood gender transition at its annual meeting, which begins in Atlanta on Oct. 26. As psychiatrists ourselves, it pains us to say that Americans should ignore one of the most prestigious medical associations in our field for the sake of protecting children from lifelong harm.

Read more at the Wall Street Journal.

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Medical Schools Need to Open the Gates

America’s medical schools do not train enough doctors, creating a growing shortage of quality physicians. This shortage is widely recognized and lamented, but the cause of the problem is often misdiagnosed. Observers from all ends of the political spectrum blame Congress, which “capped” subsidies for medical residencies in 1997. In reality, there are simply not enough U.S. medical school graduates.

Medical schools, not residencies, are the real bottleneck restricting the supply of quality physicians. After completing medical school, doctors are hired as residents, typically by hospitals, to complete the training that states require for licensure. But there have always been more residency positions in the U.S. than medical school graduates, and residency positions have expanded much more rapidly than medical school graduates.

Read more at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal.

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Trump NIH funds study on ‘Indigenous 2S/LGBTQ+ PLWH’ and ‘health disparities’

The National Institutes of Health funded tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money for a study looking at Indigenous Two-Spirit/LGBTQ people with and without HIV, also known as “2S/LGBTQ+ PLWH.”

The research team says it plans to “deepen understanding of intersectional health disparities, informing culturally appropriate interventions such as intergenerational healing workshops that may be leveraged to promote health and wellness among Indigenous 2S/LGBTQ+ PLWH.”

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Ian Kingsbury from Do No Harm, criticized the “enormous intellectual dissonance in this project,” saying “The researchers fail to acknowledge that advancements in HIV treatment benefiting LGBTQ patients were entirely thanks to Western medicine.”

“Treating spirituality or ‘indigenous ways of knowing’ as a lens for disease treatment is unscientific and unacceptable,” Kingsbury stated.

Read more at the College Fix.

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Doctors split the vote. Their teachers have a one-party problem

Left-wing ideology has taken root in medical education, and it likely isn’t the work of a mere vocal minority. Federal campaign contribution records from donors who listed a U.S. medical school as their employer show that about 87% of contributions went to left-wing candidates, party committees, and political action committees, and just 4% went to right-wing ones. As donors tend to be more extreme than average voters, this is both evidence of and a possible explanation for the institutional capture of medical education more broadly.

We searched the Federal Election Commission database for donations made between Jan. 1, 2025, and Sept. 2, 2026, entering the full name or a common variant of every U.S. medical school in the employer field and excluding donors who listed their occupation as “student.” (Also necessarily excluded were medical-school employees who listed only the parent university as their employer, those whose listed employer was ambiguous between the medical school and a similarly named hospital or clinic, and donations with the employer misspelled.) This returned partisan political contributions by employees at approximately 72% of U.S. allopathic (Doctor of Medicine degree-granting) medical schools.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

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DEI Doesn’t Belong at Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University takes its name from a Jewish study hall, where dissenting views and passionate disagreements are encouraged. However, YU’s institutionalization of DEI—a profoundly rigid, intolerant ideology—flies in the face of what a yeshiva is.

YU professes to be “rooted in Jewish thought and tradition” and committed to “timeless  values.” This makes sense—Jewish tradition has lasted for thousands of years and was arguably instrumental in the founding of the United States. DEI, on the other hand, is anything but timeless; it has Marxist roots, and no Marxist society has ever prospered.

Alas, YU’s curricula reveals its commitment to timeless values to be mere words.

Read more at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal.

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Two States. Two Children. Two Fights Over Gender.

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Every day, American parents face the challenges that come with a child telling them that he or she identifies as transgender. But how that challenge is handled varies wildly depending on where the parents live. In some states, schools socially transition children in secret or even take children from parents. In others, parental rights are respected. Two such stories show how big of a difference that can make.

The first story is playing out now in Massachusetts. In 2024, state authorities took Joseph and Arlene Kutzko’s then-15-year-old daughter from their home. The Kutzkos, devout Catholics, believe they were punished for refusing to affirm their daughter’s transgender identity, which was allegedly encouraged in secret by her school counselor.

Read more at City Journal.

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The Replication Crisis in Medicine

In a recent address at Hillsdale College, National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya spoke of a replication crisis in medicine. He means the absence of studies intended to reproduce the results of original research in order to confirm the validity of these results. The need for replication was implicit in a 2005 paper by John Ioannidis, a highly respected physician and researcher at Ioannina University, Greece, and now at Stanford University, titled “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.” As of 2020, it was still the most accessed article in the history of the Public Library of Science.

Nothing the paper describes has changed since its publication. The Covid pandemic and the years following saw a surge in retractions of published scientific papers, including in highly respected journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and Nature Medicine.

Read more at City Journal. 

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Call to end genital surgeries on children met with silence

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The child transgender craze has begun to recede in law and politics, but it is alive and unwell in the powerful medical organizations that shape government policy, medical practice and parents’ perceptions.

The evidence can be found in the responses of 10 prominent medical societies to a simple request we recently made.

In July, we asked organizations including the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Endocrine Society to support restrictions on the rarest and most dangerous transgender treatments: genital surgeries on children.

After nearly two months, none has responded.

Read more at the Washington Times.

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U. Miami medical school dean calls for ditching merit-based admissions during DEI debate

University of Miami medical school Dean Henri Ford called for holistic admissions based on more than just merit to avoid “homogenous” students in a heated debate with medical doctor Stanley Goldfarb of watchdog group Do No Harm.

The University of South Florida hosted the debate over diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in medical schools on Friday. The panel also included USF Health Senior Associate Vice President Jay Wolfson and Georgia public health director Dr. Bonzo Reddick.

Read more at the College Fix.

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Academics Who Want DEI In Med Schools Dodge And Weave When Pro-Merit Doctor Says It’s A Political Agenda

Members of academic medicine gathered in Florida on Friday to debate whether diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) — or whatever name people decide to call it — should play a role in medical school admissions.

The University of South Florida in Tampa hosted a panel of four experts to share insights from their experiences with the medical school admissions process. The panel debated whether MCAT scores and academic grades should be sufficient criteria for accepting students into a program — or whether race and identity-based factors should also be taken into consideration.

“Only a third of medical school applicants are accepted each year, the criteria that should be valued is keen intellect, strong work ethic, strong moral code, and penetrating curiosity for the study of medicine,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, one of the debate’s speakers, said during the event. “Race and ethnicity is irrelevant, unfair, and illegal.”

Goldfarb is the founder of “Do No Harm,” a policy organization working in part to keep identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice.

Read more at the Daily Caller.

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Kamala Harris didn’t misspeak — she just sent a DEI warning to America

For once, Kamala Harris didn’t misspeak.

The former vice-president-turned-failed-presidential-candidate recently appeared with Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul el Sayed. She vigorously defended the divisive and discriminatory ideology of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” saying that the “attack on DEI is an attack on maternal care,” and especially “black women.” These words betray two things that ought to worry every American.

First, the Left is still completely obsessed with DEI and will bring it back as soon as possible.

Second, that obsession is grounded in falsehoods that endanger Americans.

Since President Donald Trump beat Harris in the 2024 election, DEI has been on the defensive. Federal DEI initiatives have largely disappeared, as the spigot of taxpayer funding has dried up. Major companies have outwardly rolled back DEI commitments and scrubbed their websites of the language. And in higher education, a growing number of schools are dismantling their DEI departments.

Read more at the Washington Examiner. 

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US medical schools have gone DEI-crazy — with deadly results

Racism plagues American health care — reverse racism.

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division just brought another case against a top medical school for blatant discrimination against white and Asian applicants: Blacks applying to the University of California at San Francisco’s med school get admitted at almost 13 times the rate of similarly qualified white applicants.

Black and Hispanic students the school admitted from 2023 to ’25 averaged lower test scores and undergraduate grades than the average white and Asian applicant the school rejected.

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At the University of Texas-Southwestern, per data from medical-accountability watchdog Do No Harm, “black applicants had 21 times the odds of acceptance compared to white applicants with similar academic credentials,” to choose another.

Read more at the New York Post.

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‘No Child Should Be Exposed’: DOJ Settles With 6 Hospitals to End Gender Surgeries on Minors

Opponents of “gender transition” surgeries on minors applauded a Justice Department settlement with at least six major hospitals to stop the practice.

The Department of Justice has announced settlements with six hospitals, The New York Times reported, to stop doing the surgeries and hormone treatments for minors.

“The Department of Justice has done incredible work in driving healthcare providers to end experimental transgender treatments on minors,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer of Do No Harm, said in a statement Wednesday. “Nearly two dozen systematic reviews have found no credible evidence supporting these interventions. Meanwhile, the known or expected harms are significant, including infertility, cardiovascular disease, and surgical complications, among others.”

Read more at Daily Signal.