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Med schools group embraces racial preferences
Racial preferences in faculty hiring and student admissions are a “strategic priority for academic medicine,” the nation’s largest consortium of medical schools says. The racial priority appears in an …
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U. of Minnesota scrubs info on racially segregated event after federal complaint
University of Minnesota ‘serial offender’ of federal civil rights law, scholar says The University of Minnesota recently held an event just for “BIPOC students” considering grad school, prompting a complaint…
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Meet the influential new player on transgender health bills
Do No Harm, a nonprofit that launched last year to oppose diversity initiatives in medicine, has evolved into a significant leader in statehouses seeking to ban gender-affirming care for transgender…
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Many transgender health bills came from a handful of far-right interest groups, AP finds
Aaron and Lacey Jennen’s roots in Arkansas run deep. They’ve spent their entire lives there, attended the flagship state university, and are raising a family. So they’re heartbroken at the…
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Massachusetts recommends child abuse laws for stopping trans procedures from minors
The Massachusetts government is recommending the state enact child abuse laws for withholding transgender drugs and surgeries for children. The Bay State’s “Commission on…
Op-Ed
Prescription for Failure
The research establishment studying racial disparities in health care has a big problem. It has made a concerted effort to ignore any literature that contradicts the narrative that racial animus…
Op-Ed
When Political Dogma Replaces Medical Truth
The peer-review process is consistently failing to stop bad scholarship on gender medicine. No policies are more fraught right now than those involving gender transition and children. That makes it…
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Maryland health facility’s trans-friendly policy could require minor patients to room with opposite sex
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb of Do No Harm described policy as ‘unconscionable’ A mental health clinic at a Maryland hospital has instituted a policy by which minor patients who…
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NYT Publishes ‘Shameful’ Article Dismissing Kids Who Regret Chemical Castration
The New York Times ran a piece Tuesday dismissing the stories of individuals who regret getting transgender treatments as children. In a piece tiled “How a Few Stories of Regret…
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Wave of blue states become ‘refuge’ for child transgender surgeries and drugs
A number of blue states have passed laws allowing children to receive transgender surgeries and drugs, often without parental knowledge or consent. Many…
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America’s elites are using Soviet-style media to misinform and keep people impartial
When neutrality isn’t a virtue OPINION: About a third of the country is moving toward restoring sanity while another third seems hellbent on getting nuttier. The final third might charitably…
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Arkansas minority health commission ends diversity scholarship following lawsuit
The program’s goal was to increase diversity in the state’s health care workforce Quinyatta Mumford credits an Arkansas Minority Health Commission scholarship with affording her the opportunity to finish her…
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State minority health commission discontinues scholarship in court settlement
Decision part of agreement in discrimination lawsuit A scholarship offered to minority college students in Arkansas who plan to enter the health care field is being discontinued as part of…
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Dr. Marilyn Singleton denounces DEI policies in med schools: ‘It’s disgusting’
Anesthesiologist and Do No Harm Visiting Fellow Dr. Marilyn Singleton joins Fox Business to expand on her argument that medical schools are bringing back racial segregation. Watch at…
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Med School Lectures Future Doctors On Power Dynamics Between Different ‘Social Identities,’ Slides Reveal
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
A Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis course trained students on the “power” dynamics between different “social identities” during a lecture titled “Matrix of Social Identity,” according to…
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DeFlorida Blueprint: DeSantis challenges medical establishment in shaping GOP health policy
In his four years in office, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has set a new conservative playbook for healthcare, from his defiant response to the coronavirus pandemic…
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Arkansas health agency ends race-based scholarship after lawsuit
The Arkansas Minority Health Commission agreed to settle a lawsuit that accused the state government agency of violating federal law by providing a scholarship to …
Op-Ed
I’m a doctor and my Black parents saw me break free of segregation. Now medical schools are bringing it back
Medical schools are returning to ‘separate but equal,’ but doctors know we’re all the same on the inside My mother and father went to segregated schools, separated from…
