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Cancel Culture Comes for Philly’s Weirdest Museum
Is a 9-foot human colon a symbol of colonialism? Don’t laugh. That question threatens to destroy a beloved and bizarre institution in Philadelphia. The Mütter Museum has housed medical oddities…

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University of Michigan teaches future doctors gender ‘assigned’ at birth
University of Michigan Medical School
Students at the University of Michigan Medical School are taught basic anatomy is “assigned” by doctors at birth , according to teaching materials reviewed…

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National organization of doctors aims to protect healthcare from woke activists
WASHINGTON (TND) — A national organization of doctors, patients and policymakers is expanding across the country with a mission they say to fight woke activists. Chairman of Do No Harm Dr.

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Children are not able to give informed consent: Dr. Stanley Goldfarb
‘Do No Harm’ chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb discusses the long-term effects of putting children on puberty blockers on ‘The Bottom Line.’ Watch at Fox Business.

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EXCLUSIVE: Ohio Hospital Doubles Down On ‘Diversity Quotas’ For Its Healthcare Leaders
An Ohio hospital is setting diversity quotas for its employees in leadership positions, despite failing to reach a previous diversity threshold in 2022, according to documents obtained by medical watchdog…

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Source of Missouri State University’s opposition to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion reforms by the legislature difficult to pinpoint
Missouri State University
Missouri State University opposed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion reforms in the recent legislative session – but without much, if any, public notice or debate about it. The university deployed lobbyists…

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Department of Education swamps Duke University with civil rights investigations
Duke University
Duke University is facing a fresh federal civil rights investigation for a racially exclusive program at its medical school days after resolving a…

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Texas authorities investigate med school over child transgender procedures
Baylor College of Medicine
Baylor doctors performed transgender procedures on children after hospital announced a pause A hospital connected to the Baylor College of Medicine is under investigation by Texas authorities after a whistleblower…

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Johns Hopkins Medicine staff given roadmap to navigate dozens of pronouns: ‘faerself, ve, xe”
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Medicine workers were recently allowed to use their chosen names on ID badges Employees at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Maryland were given a new pronoun usage…

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Dr. Stanley Goldfarb: How DEI is Killing Medicine
Watch Do No Harm chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb discuss the effects of DEI in medicine with clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Dr. Lucas Klein on the Real…

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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…