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Some US Medical Schools May Still Be Promoting DEI Efforts, Watchdog Says

Some U.S. medical schools may be continuing to promote certain diversity, equity and inclusion ideology in some form, according to emails and meeting notes obtained by Do No Harm.

The University of Iowa (UI) announced in March 2025 that it was shuttering its Division of Access, Opportunity, and Diversity following a directive from the Iowa Board of Regents. However, DNH obtained a copy of a March 26, 2025 email from a UI employee via a Freedom of Information Act request suggesting that the university’s Carver College of Medicine (CCOM)’s DEI office was “still fully up and running” under a different name despite the other diversity division closing, the Daily Caller News Foundation first learned.

Read more at the Daily Caller.

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Trump Lucks Into a Plan to Reform the AMA

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The Trump administration has stumbled onto a chance to help rid medicine of radical ideology. On July 14, the Department of Health and Human Services began soliciting ideas for reforming Medicare’s physician payment system. It’s a massive and complicated undertaking that would have seismic effects on medicine, and it’s worth pursuing for another reason: It would likely force the American Medical Association—the most powerful medical group in the country—to focus on representing physicians and improving medicine, not harming patients by advocating race-based politics and gender ideology.

Combating ideology isn’t necessarily the Trump administration’s goal, but the issue is unavoidable given how Medicare payments work. Physicians use billing codes that come from the Current Procedural Terminology system, which the AMA developed in the 1960s. The AMA holds the copyright, so it earns licensing royalties when the codes are used.

Read more at the Wall Street Journal.

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Medical students are being trained in left-wing activism. That puts us all in danger

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American medicine is freaking out. Polls show that trust in medical professionals is the lowest in decades. Barely half the public has high levels of trust in doctors, with double-digit percentage declines in recent years. While the media is pointing the finger at politicians like President Donald Trump, the truth is that a different kind of politics has infected medicine. Left-wing activism has corrupted medical education and medical practice alike. Americans deserve to know exactly who’s sacrificing patient care in the name of politics.

In a new report, my organization has shown how political activism has overtaken the biggest trendsetters in medicine — medical journals. While most Americans have never encountered these publications, they affect every American by setting and reflecting the direction of medical education, practice, and policy.

Read more at the Washington Examiner. 

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Medicine’s identity crisis: When ‘health’ means everything

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For nearly a decade, the most influential medical journals in the world have been telling medical professionals that almost everything is their business: housing markets, immigration status, climate change, criminal justice, internet access, even colonialism.

The concept driving this expansion is “social determinants of health” (SDOH). The World Health Organization defines the term as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age,” including the health system itself – conditions that the WHO says are “shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national, and local levels.”

Originally centered on material circumstances, the concept of SDOH has grown far more expansive. It risks drawing healthcare professionals into policy domains in which they have little training and less expertise.

Read more at the Center Square. 

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Okla. schools face civil rights complaint over American Indian-only scholarship

Medical watchdog Do No Harm filed a complaint with the Department of Education against two Oklahoma schools that offer nursing scholarship programs that the watchdog says discriminate on the basis of race by only awarding the scholarship to those of American Indian descent.

Chief Medical Officer at Do No Harm Dr. Kurt Miceli told The Center Square that Northeastern State University and Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College “are excluding qualified individuals from rich learning opportunities based solely on race, regardless of their academic ability, skills, experiences and perspectives.”

Read more at the Center Square.

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Colleges trying to ‘increase the number of Native American nurses’ face civil rights complaint

A watchdog group filed a civil rights complaint against Oklahoma schools offering a federally funded scholarship catered toward Native American nursing students.

Northeastern State University and Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College are “discriminating against white students and other races they disfavor” through the program, medical advocacy group Do No Harm told the Department of Education in a Tuesday complaint obtained by the Washington Examiner. The public colleges “will distribute scholarships to Native American nursing students” to boost their representation in the field, according to NSU’s online description cited in the complaint.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

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Methodological Barriers to Suggesting Mental Health Benefits Associated with Puberty Blockers

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared as a comment on the study “Mental Health of Youths Who Use Puberty Blockers,” published in JAMA Network Open.

While this study notes that its findings should be interpreted with caution given “unmeasured confounding” and “selection bias,” these limitations are significant and not in isolation. As a retrospective observational study, the underlying claims data “do not allow for determining definitive causes,” limiting the conclusion suggesting that mental-health (MH) benefits are associated with puberty blockers (PBs).

For one, the study does not establish temporal ordering between initiation of PBs and an individual’s MH. The study treats the presence of a PB and that of mood or suicidality ICD-10 codes in sum. Thus, for any attenuation in MH observed among youths receiving PBs, it is impossible to determine whether the PB improved MH outcomes or whether those who received PBs were already a lower risk subgroup. Notably, a recent preprint study found that depression symptoms did not improve over 2 years after PB initiation.

Read the full comment here.

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American Psychological Association Pushes Bias on College Campuses

Professional associations drive progressive bias into college classrooms, and this needs to stop. Accreditation is not just a tiresome administrative routine. It’s a seal of approval that drives access to student loans, official diplomas, and occupational licenses. The Trump administration’s work to reform accreditation should give lawmakers new energy to challenge progressive orthodoxy.

Start with the American Psychological Association. The APA is the professional organization representing clinicians and educators in the field. Yet it also accredits university psychology departments. Most states require psychologists to have a degree from an accredited program.

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The advocacy group Do No Harm, which exposes identity politics in medicine, recently reminded the APA that the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce has warned the association about racial bias within its ranks. Last December, Committee Chairman Tim Walberg, R-Mich., wrote that his committee “is gravely concerned about antisemitism at the APA” because “Jewish APA members have reported being harassed and ostracized by their colleagues within the APA and at APA events because of their Jewish identity.”

Read more at the Daily Signal.

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New numbers reveal the child sex-change mania is worse than we knew

The child sex-change craze is worse than almost anyone realizes — and a Colorado hospital just proved it.

Recently released court documents show that Children’s Hospital Colorado, affiliated with the University of Colorado School of Medicine, prescribed puberty blockers to more than 250 patients and cross-sex hormones to nearly 550 patients in a single year, 2025.

Those are shockingly high numbers — at least 5 to 10 times higher than previously thought.

Read more at the New York Post.

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Medical watchdog reveals issues with recent medical student reports

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Medical watchdog Do No Harm released a report Tuesday that it says shows how the quality of medical students’ reports has deteriorated, becoming more “weak” and more “woke” since letter grades were terminated.

Director of research at Do No Harm Dr. Jay Greene told The Center Square: “Without the use of the letter-grade system, students are searching for other ways to stand out for fellowships and residency programs.”

This has “inevitably led to an arms race in publications authored by medical students,” Greene said.

Read more at the Center Square. 

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Medical Students Are Undermining Medical Research – And Public Health

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Say a prayer for public health. Medical education, practice, and policy are heavily influenced by academic journals, and in a new report, I document a disturbing trend. Medical students have dramatically increased their publication of research – if you can call it that. Academic journals are now awash in low-quality woke screeds written by young people who haven’t even finished their training. It doesn’t bode well for the health and well-being of the American people.

Read more at RealClear Politics.

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The ‘Arms Race’ Making America’s Future Doctors Dumber

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A troubling trend is emerging as medical schools place higher value on producing politicized research over academic excellence, a watchdog report found.

Do No Harm, an organization focused on getting politics out of medicine, discovered that as medical school students have produced more research, they have increasingly focused on leftist-driven research at the same time. This occurred as schools moved away from the traditional letter grade system to pass/fail standards, according to a study from Do No Harm first obtained by The Daily Wire.

Jay Greene, the director of research at Do No Harm, told The Daily Wire the shift away from traditional grading as institutions placed higher emphasis on research production triggered an “arms race” that has significantly lowered the quality of the nation’s future doctors.

Read more at Daily Wire.

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Professor gets NIH grant to study ‘rural gender diverse youth’

The National Institutes of Health awarded nearly half a million dollars to study “gender-affirming care for BIPOC and rural gender diverse youth,” with some of that money coming after President Trump took office.

The most recent entry for the study shows the federal government spent $143,000 on the project in fiscal year 2025. However, another government database shows that taxpayers spent $428,296 on the research since April 2023.

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“This grant is yet another data point underscoring how deeply ideologically corrupted the NIH had become, and the urgency for the Trump Administration to clean up the organization,” Ian Kingsbury with medical reform group Do No Harm told The Fix via a media statement.

He also challenged the project’s abstract, which stated that gender-affirming care has mental health benefits, calling it “a dubious claim based on shoddy, unreliable evidence.”

Read more at the College Fix.

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Oregon Has Civil Rights Problems in Education. This Congresswoman Is Trying to Distract Voters.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon is downsizing an ineffective government bureaucracy, so, naturally, progressive lawmakers are howling. The latest theatrics come from Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., who introduced articles of impeachment against McMahon last week.

Bonamici’s attempt is baseless—McMahon has continued to fulfill the law while downsizing the U.S. Department of Education—which raises the question of whether Bonamici is diverting attention from the problems in her home state.

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Earlier this year, Oregon policymakers faced yet another civil rights complaint. Do No Harm and Defending Education cited the state’s public charter school funding formula, which provides additional money to charter schools that have high levels of minority enrollment. The spending represents rewards to school officials for keeping racial quotas, according to the groups.

Do No Harm and Defending Education also named an Oregon higher education commission in the complaint and said the commission provides “bonuses” to colleges and universities in the state according to the number of minority graduates.

Read more at the Daily Signal.

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Report warns of harmful rise in social ideology in medicine

Medical journals’ tripled engagement with non-health related factors such as environmental, economic, and social well-being over the past decade as well as the phrase’s broadening scope may allow harmful ideologies to influence healthcare overall, a new report from medical watchdog Do No Harm warns.

Senior director of Do No Harm’s Center for Accountability in Medicine Ian Kingsbury told The Center Square that “the expansion of the social determinants of health framework is a serious cause for concern.”

The World Health Organization defines social determinants of health (SDOH) as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age,” and states that “these circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels, which are themselves influenced by policy choices.”

Kingsbury told The Center Square that “introducing new areas outside a physician’s scope is a tool to advance a leftist political ideology rather than allowing providers to focus on high-quality patient care.”

Read more at the Center Square.

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Trump administration probe could upend widely used transgender youth treatment guidelines

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The organization widely regarded as the leading authority on transgender medical treatment is facing allegations from the Federal Trade Commission that it built influential treatment guidelines for minors on evidence its own leaders privately acknowledged was limited and uncertain.

The complaint, filed in a Texas federal court by the Federal Trade Commission and the attorneys general of Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska and Texas, accuses World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) of developing and promoting guidance that healthcare providers relied upon when recommending puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and sex-change procedures for minors.

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Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer for Do No Harm, a medical ethics advocacy organization, said the allegations raise serious questions about how the organization’s guidelines were developed.

“The conflicts of interest that are within the standards of care are significant, and again, not brought to light, and this is part of that deception, and the concern that WPATH has sort of stated that the science is there behind pediatric medical transition when it is not.”

Read more at Fox News.

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The Lawsuit That Could Blow Up The Child Sex-Change Industry

The federal government is suing an infamous transgender medical activist group and alleging it has deceived the public about the harms of child sex changes to make a profit.

The Federal Trade Commission announced it’s suing the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) over allegations the group made “false and unsubstantiated claims” that made it possible for medical providers to “sell” child sex-change interventions to the public, according to a press release.

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Kurt Miceli, M.D., Chief Medical Officer at Do No Harm, told The Daily Wire he applauds the action taken by Chairman Ferguson.

“We applaud Chairman Ferguson for taking decisive action against the engine of the transgender industrial machine, WPATH,” Miceli told The Daily Wire. “By falsely portraying pediatric gender transition as a lifesaving intervention, this activist organization promoted a narrative that irreversible, life-altering procedures were the only viable option for gender-confused children.”

Read more at Daily Wire.

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Free speech groups dogpile ‘three-time loser’ Colorado in appeals court for misgendering law

The Supreme Court has so frequently used Colorado as a punching bag on free speech issues that George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley thanked “arguably the most anti-free speech state in the union” for its “spectacular legal failures that reaffirmed rather than restricted the First Amendment.”

A trio of appeals to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals seeks to take down one of Colorado’s remaining affronts to the First Amendment, as plaintiffs see it, before the justices can do it themselves: a public accommodations law that prohibits so-called deadnaming, misgendering or otherwise making transgender people feel “unwelcome.”

Barely a year old, HB 25-1312 was immediately challenged by gender-critical clothing brand XX-XY Athletics, Christian bookstore Born Again Books, and a coalition including Colorado doctors, medical advocacy group Do No Harm and parental rights groups Defending Education, Colorado Parent Advocacy Network and Protect Kids Colorado.

Read more at Just the News.