UConn med school drops mandatory ‘DEI-infused’ Hippocratic Oath

Oath compelled students ‘to affirm political viewpoints,’ free speech group said

The University of Connecticut School of Medicine will no longer require students to recite its Hippocratic Oath that pledges support for social justice and “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression wrote in a post on X Tuesday that the school confirmed its “DEI-infused” oath is optional and “students will not be punished for refusing to recite it.”

Read more in The College Fix.

Big University Health System Sued for Racial Discrimination

The medical profession succumbed with surprising rapidity to the “woke” agenda of putting racial characteristics ahead of ability. In student admissions, faculty hiring and firing, and other aspects of medical education, “diversity” was the primary consideration.

Now, some universities are finding themselves in legal trouble over those policies. In today’s Martin Center article, Mike Markham writes about the lawsuit Do No Harm has filed against Duke Health Systems.

Read more in the National Review.

State Lawmaker Compares Parents Opposed To Pro-Transgender Bill To KKK

A Colorado state lawmaker drew backlash by claiming that parental rights groups opposed to a bill on children’s gender identities are “hate groups” similar to the Ku Klux Klan.

Democratic State Rep. Yara Zokaie said there is no room for “difference of opinion” during a hearing that began Tuesday on the “Kelly Loving Act.” The Democrat-backedbill labels parents’ skepticism of a “transgender” child’s identity as a form of “coercive control” that could cost them custody rights.

Read more in the Daily Caller.

Major Infant-Mortality Study Was Edited to Preserve Racial ‘Perspective’

Researchers deliberately obscured a data point about white babies under the care of black physicians because it ‘undermines the narrative.’

When the high-profile Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard case was before the Supreme Court, the Association of American Medical Colleges submitted an amicus brief citing a 2020 study and claiming that “for high-risk Black newborns, having a Black physician is tantamount to a miracle drug: it more than doubles the likelihood that the baby will live.” The study in question, “Physician–patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns,” suggested that the mortality rates for black newborns decline significantly if they are under the care of black physicians, an outcome possibly driven by white physicians harboring “spontaneous bias.”

Read more in the National Review.

Cassidy pressures medical association over youth trans procedures after Trump ban

EXCLUSIVE – A key Republican senator is increasing the pressure on medical associations that are still advocating surgical procedures for youth with gender dysphoria in light of the Trump administration’s efforts to ban such treatment for those under 19.

Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee chairman Bill Cassidy (R-LA) on Tuesday sent a letter, obtained by the Washington Examiner, to the president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health regarding the organization’s continued advocacy for so-called “gender-affirming” procedures, including double mastectomy and vaginoplasty.

Read more in The Washington Examiner.

‘Undermines the narrative’: Scholars left out data in study finding black newborns do better with black doctors

Professor’s note on draft says data ‘undermines the narrative,’ according to documents obtained by open records

A widely-cited study used to support racial concordance, the theory that medical professionals provide better care to patients of the same race, appears to have left out data that “undermine[d] the narrative,” according to an open records investigation.

The 2020 study, led by George Mason University business Professor Brad Greenwood, found that “when Black newborns are cared for by Black physicians, the mortality penalty they suffer, as compared with White infants, is halved.”

Read more in The College Fix.

HHS Opens Probe Into Calif. Med School; Reportedly UCLA

The Trump administration announced Thursday that it has opened an investigation into a “major medical school in California” for discriminatory raced-based admissions, with the Washington Free Beacon reporting the school in question is UCLA.

The probe comes nearly a year after whistleblowers told the Free Beacon that the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA held Black and Hispanic applicants to a lower standard than white and Asian applicants.

The state of California banned affirmative action in college admissions in 1996. However, whistleblowers alleged that UCLA’s med school admissions office under anesthesiologist Jennifer Lucero “frequently pushed through unqualified minority candidates to diversity the school,” the Free Beach reported.

Read more in Newsmax.

EXCLUSIVE: One Gov’t Agency Still Spending $1,000,000,000 On DEI Despite Trump’s Order To Cut It Out

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to fund more than a billion dollars in diversity, equity and inclusion programs, even after President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to eliminate them.

While other agencies have moved to eliminate the “illegal and immoral programs” targeted in Trump’s day-one executive order, NIH is still funding over $1.3 billion in active grants that include DEI components — from race-based hiring schemes to “anti-racist” training initiatives and diversity-first faculty pipelines. At least $441 million of those grants explicitly cite DEI in their project descriptions, according to NIH data compiled by watchdog group Do No Harm. (RELATED: Check Out The Family Ties Of House Dem Championing Status Quo At NIH)

Read more in the Daily Caller.

NIH Under Fire Over DEI Funding in Grants

The National Institutes of Health is reportedly continuing to award grants that fund diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and initiatives despite President Donald Trump’s order for federal agencies to cease DEI efforts, The Daily Caller reports.

Do No Harm, a medical policy organization that advocates against diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the field of medicine and medical education, found that the NIH continues to fund grants for anti-racist training programs and other diversity initiatives.

According to the group, the NIH is spending about $440 million on grants that “explicitly cite DEI in their project descriptions” and more than $1.3 billion on active grants with diversity components.

Read more in Newsmax.

NIH has awarded nearly $3 million to trans research since Trump took office

Trump admin needs to clarify what constitutes ‘promoting gender ideology,’ policy analyst says

Since President Donald Trump took office, the National Institutes of Health has awarded nearly $3 million to studies on transgenderism or “gender-affirming care.”

The Fix conducted this research using the NIH’s Grant Reporter and inputting the following keywords: “transgender,” “gender-affirming,” and “gender identity.” This yielded eight results. The projects were already in effect and had previously received taxpayer funding – however, all eight studies had received new money since President Trump took office.

Read more in The College Fix.

Exclusive: American Psychological Association ‘Antisemitic Hate’ Exposed

Medical watchdog organization Do No Harm has brought eyes to the American Psychological Association’s (APA) “antisemitic hate” by stationing a mobile billboard outside of their Washington, DC, headquarters exposing quotes from members, including “Kudos to Hamas” and “Intifada, Intifada.”

The billboard displays controversial comments on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict made by members of the APA, which is the world’s largest psychology organization with over 173,000 members.

Internal message boards revealed members saying, “Kudos to Hamas,” and “Intifada, Intifada,” while former President of the APA Society of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology Dr. Lara Sheehi was exposed for calling Israelis “genocidal fucks” with a “settler psychosis.”

Read more in Breitbart.

Dozens of medical schools on DEI ‘watchlist’ as two face civil rights complaint

EXCLUSIVE — More than 70 medical schools are under scrutiny from a watchdog group for maintaining diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and race-based selection policies, even after federal demands to eliminate discriminatory practices.

A list from medical and civil rights watchdog Do No Harm has identified up to 70 medical schools still engaging in DEI-driven selection practices despite the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision striking down race considerations and affirmative action for college admissions.

“Schools and health systems cannot be allowed to fly under the radar and continue these obviously discriminatory practices, especially when they have the vital job of producing our future doctors,” Kurt Miceli, medical director at DNH, told the Washington Examiner.

Read more in The Washington Examiner.

Former diversity officer at USF resigns after comments on DEI laws

A longtime University of South Florida administrator is no longer part of the university system after comments he made about diversity, equity and inclusion surfaced online. 

Dr. Haywood Brown, who served as USF Health’s senior associate vice president for academic and faculty affairs and vice dean of faculty affairs for the Morsani College of Medicine, resigned Tuesday after Fox Newsreported on the comments, which included statements targeting White House adviser Stephen Miller.

Brown was previously the university’s vice president for diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity.

Read more in Tampa Bay Times.

Florida med school official quits over audio discussing ‘slippery’ ways to avoid DEI ban

Haywood Brown explained how University of South Florida simply changed DEI terms to avoid legal scrutiny

The University of South Florida changed some DEI terminology within its school to avoid legal scrutiny, according to a doctor who has since resigned.

Do No Harm released audio of Dr. Haywood Brown discussing the “slippery” ways the medical school got around Florida’s ban on DEI at public universities as well as federal law. He has since resigned, according to Fox News, which first reported on the story.

Read more in The College Fix.

Medical School Accreditors Continue to Push DEI, Putting Administrators in a Bind

Accreditation organizations continue to pressure the medical schools in their charge to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion at the expense of rigorous training for the next generation of health-care professionals, forcing administrators to choose whether to comply with the Trump administration’s new anti-DEI push and jeopardize their accreditation, or risk their accreditation by ditching the divisive identity politics.

Do No Harm, a watchdog opposed to identity politics in medicine, found that ten prominent accreditors continue to advance DEI through accreditation standards to the detriment of medical professionals and patients, the group said in a new report first shared with National Review.

Read more in the National Review.

University doctor resigns after unearthed audio exposes him boasting about skirting anti-DEI laws

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FIRST ON FOX: A university doctor has resigned from his position after Fox News Digital reported on unearthed audio where he touted how he has been avoiding anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) laws in Florida while attacking state and federal officials, including top White House official Stephen Miller.

“Shortly after learning of Dr. Brown’s comments, the university decided to place him on administrative leave to allow for a thorough review of the matter,” a University of South Florida spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. “In response, he has chosen to resign effective immediately.”

Read more in Fox News.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin ‘Reviewing’ Federal Suicide Hotline That Connects Minors With Adult Trans Activists

The Trump administration is considering changes to the national suicide hotline’s specialized service for LGBTQ-identifying youth, which routes children to transgender activist organizations, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

The LGBTQ hotline, which routes young callers to organizations that specialize in “affirming” counseling, has received over a million contacts since it was launched in 2022, federal data shows. In those years, it placed access to transgender activists at children’s fingertips, enabling youth who text “PRIDE” to 988 or press option “3” after dialing the main hotline to connect with a counselor who will talk to them about gender identity — often without parental knowledge.

Read more in the Daily Caller.

Children’s hospital masks DEI to evade Trump’s federal funding cuts: Report

The Seattle Children’s Hospital renamed its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives to circumvent President Donald Trump’s ban, according to a whistleblower account.

A current employee with the hospital, who asked to remain anonymous over fear of retaliation, told the Daily Signal that the medical center has failed to comply with Trump’s directive to eradicate woke programs. 

On Inauguration Day, Trump issued an executive order banning DEI, calling the initiatives “illegal and immoral discrimination programs.” He demanded the termination of all related “mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal Government, under whatever name they appear.”

Read more in The Blaze.