The Arkansas Minority Health Commission has been sued for offering a scholarship that excludes white applicants .
Brought by the health advocacy group Do No Harm, the lawsuit alleges the commission, housed in the Natural State’s Department of Health, discriminates against potential applicants by only accepting persons from certain racial groups for scholarship consideration.
Read more at the Washington Examiner.
The University of Minnesota (UMN) spent more than $219,000 to develop an online Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) training course intended for healthcare professionals to comply with the state’s 2022 “Dignity In Pregnancy And Childbirth” statute, documents obtained by medical watchdog Do No Harm and shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation revealed.
UMN paid Diversity Science $219,633.00 to “design and develop evidence-based antiracism and implicit bias training eLearning course” to be used at Minnesota hospitals and birthing centers for professionals who work with pregnant or postpartum patients, the documents reveal. The course is mandated through a state statute that went into effect in January 2023 and requires hospitals and birthing centers to offer the continuing education curriculum, according to the Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes.
Read more at the Daily Caller.
The Biden administration launched an investigation into a University of Florida College of Medicine- Jacksonville program for possible civil rights violations, according to a letter obtained by Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Christopher Rufo.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened the investigation on Monday after medical watchdog Do No Harm Senior Fellow Mark Perry filed a complaint against the Department of Pediatrics Visiting Elective Scholars Program in October 2022, according to the letter. The complaint accused the program of violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits race-based discrimination, because it is only accessible to “underrepresented” students.
Read more at the Daily Caller.
Social ideologies about race and oppression have begun to permeate every aspect of American society. Regardless of one’s views on systemic racism, everyone should be concerned about a new and dangerous movement within medicine. While seeking to promote inclusion, it has, unfortunately, put wokeness and political correctness above science and facts. This is unacceptable when people’s health and lives are on the line.
The University of Illinois – Chicago made headlines after publishing a resource guide claiming that obesity is rooted in racism. Amanda Montgomery, a research assistant and author of the controversial resource, wrote that the idea of obesity as a bad thing is merely cultural. She claims that “Fatness and differing body characteristics were used to justify lack of civilization” and the idea was used “as a way to justify slavery, racism and classism, and control women through ‘temperance.’”
Read more at RealClearHealth.
EXCLUSIVE — The medical school at the University of Buffalo earned high marks for its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion from the Association of American Medical Colleges and has incorporated aspects of critical race theory into its curriculum.
The University of Buffalo’s Jacobs School of Medicine’s responses to the AAMC’s diversity, inclusion, culture, and equity survey were obtained by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm and were shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner.
Read more at the Washington Examiner.
Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis’ hiring guidance advises that potential hires speak, act and dress ‘in ways that authentically resonate with racially minoritized students’
A public university in Indiana’s new guidelines for inclusive hiring emphasizes equity credentials over traditional merit — and even suggests new professors should talk, dress and act “in ways that authentically resonate” with racial minorities.
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis’s Office of Academic Affairs issued a document obtained by Fox News Digital that outlines “Inclusive Faculty Search Practices” to improve hiring, advising committees should “move away from abstract conceptions of ‘merit’ and ‘fit.”
Read more at Fox News.
But several other university programs closed to white male students remain a concern, watchdog says
The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill recently amended an academic program to accept applicants of all races as the result of a civil rights complaint.
Initially the Fellowship for Exploring Research in Nutrition program, or FERN, was only open to undergrads “from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) populations.”
Read more at The College Fix.
The University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix (UACOM) will revise its Educational Program Objective (EPO) policy this summer as part of its “anti-racism curriculum,” medical watchdog group Do No Harm reported.
The medical school will expand an objective found in the policy’s Medical Knowledge section to teach students about “intersectional identities” in addition to diversity demographics, Do No Harm reported. The UACOM Curriculum Committee approved the change and it will be implemented July 1.
Read more at the Daily Caller.
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened federal investigations into four universities this week in response to complaints filed by medical watchdog Do No Harm (DNH), according to the organization.
The OCR will investigate Wake Forest University (WFU), the University of Virginia (UVA), the University of Rochester (UR) and Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) for alleged civil rights violations, Do No Harm reported. Senior Fellow Mark Perry filed a joint complaint against WFU and UVA, alleging the institutions used school resources to partner with an organization whose activities violate Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, while Program Manager Laura Morgan violated complaints against UR and TJU for allegedly participating in programs that violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Read more at the Daily Caller.
A medical doctor is poking holes in claims and research touted by the Department of Defense (DOD) to argue that children as young as seven years old can consent to sex change medical treatments, according to a statement sent to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
DOD researchers wrote in this month’s issue of the American Journal of Public Health that the department should publicly affirm support for sex change procedures for children of military families. The researchers said that young children can be involved in making their own medical decisions, but Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of medical watchdog Do No Harm and a board-certified kidney specialist, said that the rationale behind the argument is flawed.
Read more at the Daily Caller.
The DoD doctors claimed 7-year-olds are capable of ‘medical decision-making’
FIRST ON FOX – Health providers at U.S. military bases, some of whom are involved in treating military-connected minors, blasted the idea of waiting before injecting kids diagnosed with gender dysphoria with puberty blockers and hormones.
The DoD providers said in the March edition of the American Journal of Public Health that the only pathway for children of military members who present with gender dysphoria symptoms is to immediately move towards “gender-affirming health care, such as puberty suppression and affirming hormones.”
Read more at Fox News.
SHORT PUMP, Virginia — Doctors say there is a “perverse” monetary incentive structure built around pushing “transgender” drugs and surgeries on children.
Breitbart News sat down with two Richmond-area physicians — a neurologist and a pediatrician — to discuss left-wing movements in the practice of medicine. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity so as to not face professional backlash.
“There are big bucks in medicine,” the neurologist said at a private lecture to around 130 doctors and medical professionals near Richmond, Virginia, hosted by the medical advocacy group Do No Harm. “I think that the dollar incentive is hard to get around.”
Read more at Breitbart.
Levine also said gender-affirming care for minors had the ‘highest support’ of the Biden administration
Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Rachel Levine promised that medically changing kids’ genders will soon be normalized.
Levine praised the “gender-affirming care” at the Pediatric Grand Rounds session at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford. Levine was invited to speak at the event about the Florida Parental Rights in Education law and the political implications of gender reassignment surgery taking place at children’s hospitals.
Read more at Fox News.
Missouri lawmakers should go ahead and ban transgender treatments for children, in U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley’s considered opinion.
Hawley’s office last month launched an investigation of the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, following a whistleblower’s allegations the institution was “permanently harming the vulnerable patients in our care.”
Read more at The Heartlander.
Racial and transgender politics are endangering the practice of medicine, yet the Missouri State Medical Association (MSMA) is considering whether to actually welcome it, warns a national watchdog group.
The MSMA is currently taking members’ comments online on two proposed resolutions supporting minors’ access to gender transition treatments and opposing any legislative bans on them. Another resolution would support the right to change the gender on one’s birth certificate.
Read more at The Heartlander.
SHORT PUMP, Virginia — Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chair of medical advocacy group Do No Harm, warned of a growing movement by American medical schools and professional organizations to “turn physicians into social justice warriors.”
Breitbart News obtained exclusive access to a private lecture to around 130 doctors and medical professionals near Richmond, Virginia, who see their profession under threat of racialized care and politically oriented medical decision making.
Read more at Breitbart.
Transgender Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine says that gender-affirming care for minors has the ‘highest support’ of the Biden administration.
Levine has promised that medically changing children’s gender will soon be normalized, praising the controversial medical intervention which has been banned in several states at the Pediatric Grand Rounds Session at Children’s Medical Center in Hartford.
Read more at the Daily Mail.
A professor at Indiana University School of Medicine condemned a lesson inculcating gender ideology among first-year medical students as “anti-scientific” and “anti-biological,” warning that it would have “very detrimental effects to the health care profession” and stating that he had not heard of any internal discussions about the lesson before professors implemented it.
“I did not hear about it until it came out in the news,” the professor, who spoke with The Daily Signal on condition of anonymity, said in a phone interview Wednesday. He said the transgender lesson did not surprise him, however, because “the entire biomedical profession has been conquered by this aggressive ideology that inculcates a certain worldview.”
Read more at The Daily Signal.