The conservative physician advocacy group Do No Harm recently flagged the UNM School of Medicine in a report as one of the five worst U.S. medical schools for still lowering academic standards to boost the number of racial minorities training as doctors.
Ian Kingsbury, director of Do No Harm’s Center for Accountability in Medicine, applauded Mr. Jakiche’s lawsuit against the school.
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The National Institutes of Health has slashed funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion-focused projects by 80%, saving taxpayers $168.7 million in the first six months of the Trump administration, according to an exclusive Do No Harm study shared with Newsmax.
Dr. Kurt Miceli, medical director at Do No Harm hailed the cuts as a “turning point” that prioritizes “merit and scholarship over ideology,” redirecting resources toward high-impact biomedical research.
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The legal doctrine of government speech, which inhibits individual First Amendment rights, got a massive expansion from the Pacific to the Rockies thanks to a federal appeals court that upheld ideological requirements for ongoing professional licensing rules, according to lawyers for a California doctor challenging her state’s rules.
The Pacific Legal Foundation told Just the News it will file a petition for rehearing by the full 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals following a three-judge panel’s ruling Friday that deemed the Golden State’s mandatory “implicit bias” training in accredited continuing medical education, of which doctors must complete 50 hours every two years, government speech.
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The “Black Scholars Matter” program at California State University Northridge violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 according to a new federal complaint shared with The College Fix.
Civil rights activist Mark Perry filed a complaint against the program, which he called a “racially exclusionary program that illegally excludes and discriminates against non-Black students.”
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Following its workshop on the deceptive practices in “gender-affirming care” for minors, the Federal Trade Commission launched a public inquiry in order to learn from consumers how such care has harmed and deceived them personally.
Do No Harm Senior Fellow Dr. Jared Ross told The Center Square that “the Federal Trade Commission’s request for public comment is a great step forward in exposing ideologically motivated physicians and ending the heinous practice of so-called pediatric gender medicine.”
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(The Center Square) – One plaintiff called the decision “willfully naïve” on Tuesday after a federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit last week challenging Washington state laws that allow minors to access mental health and gender-affirming care without parental consent.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington’s dismissal. The ruling puts the lawsuit, filed by two parental rights groups and five sets of parents, to bed – at least for now.
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Medical and healthcare education accreditors are abandoning diversity, equity, and inclusion requirements for schools, a Do No Harm report shows, with the organization’s medical director saying accreditors must still be held accountable “to ensure lasting reform.”
Do No Harm is a group that represents “physicians, nurses, medical students, patients, and policymakers focused on keeping identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice,” according to its website.
Do No Harm’s medical director, Dr. Kurt Miceli, told The Center Square that “it’s encouraging to see the progress that has been made since the President’s executive order just three months ago,” referencing Trump’s April order to reform accreditation.
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A new study which found racial minorities living in poor areas actually have a lower risk of mental health problems relating to pregnancy compared to their similarly situated white counterparts shows racism is a “complex” topic, according to the authors.
This paper, published in Social Science and Medicine, hypothesized that residing in “structurally deprived neighborhoods” would be associated with a higher risk of hospital-reported “perinatal mental disorders” for minority populations, while no such association would exist for white mothers due to systemic racism.
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Several medical school accreditors appear to be abandoning their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as the Trump administration proves it means business.
Of the 11 major medical associations and accreditors identified in a new report released Thursday by Do No Harm, eight have modified or entirely suspended their DEI requirements for member institutions. The Trump administration has been attempting to root out the discriminatory practices for months, reminding schools that they are bound by civil rights law and cannot have policies that prefer certain groups of people over others.
“We are pleased that many of the accreditors responsible for injecting identity politics into medical education are backing off their DEI requirements,” Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm, said in a statement. “While these early results are encouraging, there is still much work to be done to rid our institutions entirely of the rot of racial politics. Removing DEI from accreditation standards is necessary, but to fully reform medical education, schools must also abandon DEI in favor of merit everywhere it is found.”
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In Lionel Shriver’s most recent novel, “Mania,” the U.S. has been overtaken by an ideology known as mental parity. Adherents refuse to acknowledge any differences in intelligence or ability. Testing becomes pointless because no one is allowed to fail. Medical degrees are issued regardless of competence, and people lose trust in doctors. Those who can afford it travel abroad for healthcare.
The book is a shrewd and funny send-up of diversity, equity and inclusion hysteria. What’s not so funny is how far down this path we’ve traveled already. The Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard made it illegal for colleges and universities to use race as a factor in admissions, yet a new study accuses medical schools of evading the ban.
Do No Harm, a watchdog group that opposes racial preferences, analyzed 2024 admissions data from 23 public medical schools. It found that at 22 of the schools Asian and white applicants who were accepted had higher Medical College Admission Test scores than their black peers.
Read more on the Wall Street Journal (paywall).
Medical school accreditors are scaling back diversity, equity, and inclusion requirements in accreditation standards in response to political pressure, marking a dramatic shift in the higher education landscape.
Eight major accreditation organizations have changed their DEI policies since President Donald Trump’s April executive order empowering the Department of Education to scrutinize accreditors for promoting DEI, according to a new report from watchdog Do No Harm obtained by National Review.
“We are pleased that many of the accreditors responsible for injecting identity politics into medical education are backing off their DEI requirements,” said Do No Harm chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb.
Read more on National Review.
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy has given major healthcare associations weeks to provide evidence they are complying with President Donald Trump’s executive order banning the promotion and performance of child sex-changes.
Cassidy, chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), sent letters Tuesday to several hospital associations and a major health insurer asking the groups to provide evidence they are complying with President Trump’s order “Protecting Children From Chemical And Surgical Mutilation,” to the HELP committee by Aug. 7, 2025. In the letters which were exclusively provided the Daily Caller News Foundation, Dr. Cassidy states he is working “hand in glove” with the Trump administration to protect children from the harms of child sex-change interventions, which include loss of fertility, loss of sexual function, decreased bone density and the removal of healthy body parts.
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The Children’s Hospital Los Angeles closed its child-focused Center for Transyouth Health and Development, a public provider of gender-related treatments for children that has been running for more than three decades, due to “severe impacts” of the Trump administration’s policies.
“Center team members were heartbroken to learn of the decision from hospital leaders, who emphasized that it was not made lightly, but followed a thorough legal and financial assessment of the increasingly severe impacts of recent administrative actions and proposed policies,” reads a statement by the Children’s Hospital. The closure is effective Tuesday, July 22.
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The extent of its racial discrimination is eye-popping.
Medical schools hold the weighty responsibility of deciding who can become a doctor. So one would hope that they would approach this task with the goal of selecting those persons who have the greatest potential to become good doctors. Yet medical schools have long been riddled with leftist admissions officers who prioritize their racial preferences over improving the health care system — and saving people’s lives.
There has been some limited movement away from racist admissions decision-making since the Supreme Court ruled two years ago that “affirmative action” is an illegal violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Alas, many medical schools are dodging the law in pursuit of their racist agendas.
One of the worst offenders — and shockingly so — is the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. They are not even trying to hide the extent to which they are racially discriminating.
Read more on the American Spectator.
In his novel The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann describes wealthy European consumptives who retreat to a sanitorium high in the Swiss Alps, convinced that thin air aids in treating pulmonary tuberculosis. In their self-contained community, they affirm their faith in contemporary medical practices while delaying the demands of life in the “flatlands.”
Medical researchers, it seems, are retreating to a sanatorium of their own. Based on our analysis, leading medical journals increasingly lean left and are abandoning scientific principles in service of progressive ideology.
We began by conducting a keyword search of every article published in the JAMA Network—a group of 13 medical journals affiliated with the American Medical Association—between April 1 and May 31. The phrase “diversity, equity, and inclusion” appeared 56 times, more often than atherosclerosis (45) and osteoporosis (16). Another progressive-coded term, “inequity,” showed up 99 times—more than asthma (75) or opioid use disorder (65).
Read more on City Journal.
The controversial Los Angeles-based Center for Transyouth Health and Development — one of the largest medical gender transitioning programs in the country — is shuttering its youth-focused treatment program this week.
The center’s youth-focused gender services will cease July 22 after spending its last existing weeks “actively assisting with patient navigation and seeking to identify potential alternative providers for our patients and their families,” officials stated in a news release.
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The Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., announced on Friday that it would no longer prescribe transgender-related medication to its patients under growing pressure from the Trump administration.
Effective Aug. 30, Children’s National will no longer prescribe its patients so-called “gender-affirming” medications — such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy — citing “escalating legal and regulatory risks.” Children’s National is the latest major hospital system to discontinue its transgender-related services offered to minors after the Trump administration vowed to fight what it describes as the “barbaric practice of surgically and chemically maiming and sterilizing children.”
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Some medical schools may still be using affirmative action policies to admit more black students over whites and Asians, a new report released Thursday found.
Some of these schools appeared much more likely to admit black students with lower Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) scores compared to those of white and Asian students, according to medical school admissions data acquired by Do No Harm. On average, black students admitted in 2024 had a mean MCAT score of 508.3, while Asian and white students had mean MCAT scores of 514.0 and 512.1, respectively.
While the average student scores around 506 on the MCAT, according to The Princeton Review, medical schools remain highly selective, often admitting less than 5% of applicants and requiring at least a 510 MCAT score to be considered competitive.
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