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Missouri State University is continuing its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) spending, even as public sentiment and many state lawmakers have turned against it. A survey of the DEI programs at MSU by The Lion, however, raises questions about what exactly the DEI money is paying for, besides supporting nearly 20 staff members. In contrast, […]
The Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty is vowing to take on diversity, equity and inclusion practices in government with a series of lawsuits and legal actions, including a federal complaint against the University of Wisconsin-Madison for awarding and promoting at least 60 race-based scholarships. The Wisconsin legal group says that DEI programs represent at […]
RICHMOND, VA; January 16, 2025 – Do No Harm and the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed a federal complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights against Johns Hopkins University for discriminating against medical students on the basis of race and sex. Johns Hopkins University’s School of […]
In medical terms, is one in 1,000 a rare event? The answer, it turns out, is political. When it comes to Type-2 diabetes, the health-care establishment appears to agree that the prevalence of 1.04 cases per 1,000 among 15- to 19-year-olds is cause for alarm. Diabetes Care, the flagship journal of the American Diabetes Association, noted in 2009 […]
Pregnant women of color who complain about medical professionals committing “gendered racial microaggressions” during OB/GYN visits are more likely to experience elevated blood pressure after giving birth, a study shows. Three researchers reported this month in Hypertension, a journal of the American Heart Association, that more than one-third of 373 Asian, Black and Hispanic mothers they studied […]
Should life-changing opportunities be curated on the basis of applicants’ race? Take the Rising Black Scientists Award by Cell Press, which publishes several medical science journals as well as scientific journals in other fields including chemistry and plant science. As part of its diversity initiatives, Cell Press has for the past five years awarded funds […]
A top employee for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) said that he had dedicated his career to unpacking people’s “invisible knapsacks” of white privilege, and blamed problems with American health care on “isms” like “cisgenderism.” Do No Harm senior director of programs Laura Morgan criticized Alberti’s comments, saying he was “the product of a politicized […]
The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is actively discriminating against its own members. As part of the APTA’s commitment to diversity, the organization hands out monetary awards that are only available to minority APTA members. The APTA’s Faculty Development Scholarship Award, for example, provides a monetary award to “minority faculty pursuing a postprofessional doctoral degree.” […]
A federal appeals court revived a lawsuit challenging Pfizer Inc.‘s fellowship program aimed at building a diverse workforce, saying that a trial judge applied the wrong standard in assessing whether the challenger had legal standing to sue. A divided three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit last year had initially upheld the […]
A U.S. appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit by a conservative group opposed to diversity initiatives in medicine that challenged a Pfizer (PFE.N) fellowship program designed to boost the pipeline of Black, Latino and Native American people in leadership positions at the drugmaker. At the urging of the group Do No Harm, a 2-1 panel of […]
The University of Washington’s medical school is clarifying that a professional networking tool is available to white physicians after facing a legal challenge for alleged racial discrimination. The University of Washington School of Medicine is renaming its “BIPOC Physicians Directory” and advertising its availability to all races to resolve a lawsuit from Do No Harm, […]
The invoice, obtained through a public information request by Do No Harm, an organization opposed to the politicization of medicine, shows that the University of Utah’s Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine paid $75,760 for a year-long institutional membership in the AAMC starting on July 1, 2024. The AAMC counts as members all 158 American […]
RICHMOND, VA; January 10, 2024 – Today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a previous decision and affirmed Do No Harm’s standing in its lawsuit against Pfizer over a racially discriminatory fellowship program. “We are pleased the Second Circuit has reversed course and correctly recognized our right to protect our members in the […]
On January 1, 2024, the Texas law preventing public universities from maintaining DEI offices and employing DEI officials went into effect. Among other things, the law ensures public institutions of higher education do not “hire or assign an employee of the institution or contract with a third party to perform the duties of a diversity, […]
RICHMOND, VA; January 10, 2024 – The University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM) has removed race-based restrictions from a physician networking directory after Do No Harm sued the program for racial discrimination. Originally, only “black, indigenous and people of color” (BIPOC) students and physicians were eligible to participate in UWSOM’s Physicians Directory, a database […]
As the federal agency responsible for administering core national health insurance programs, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should aim to promote a healthcare system free from divisive politics or discriminatory practices. Yet during the Biden administration, CMS adopted a number of policies actively working against this ideal. These policies were often in […]
Thanks to a new bill, Virginia could soon force medical professionals to sit through so-called “unconscious bias” trainings. The bill, introduced by Democratic Delegate Cliff Hayes on January 3, would direct the state board of medicine to “require unconscious bias and cultural competency training as part of the continuing education requirements for renewal of licensure.” […]
Memorial Health, an Illinois-based health system, is advertising its pledge to hire “diverse” candidates while promoting its commitment to DEI ideology. According to its “Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion” (EDI) pledge, the health system will “actively recruit, hire and promote diverse candidates so that our colleagues more accurately reflect the communities we serve.” “We know diverse […]