Diversity And Inclusion

CorneaGen is committing $100,000 per year to ensure that members of the Black community in the United States can receive a cornea transplant regardless of their financial situation.

Billie Holiday recorded “Strange Fruit” in 1937.

Among Medicaid-insured women with systemic lupus erythematosus, Black and Asian patients are less likely than white patients to receive contraceptives from a health provider, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

Last week’s top story in gastroenterology was about the state of racial injustice in America and how the medical community should be responding to it.

The COVID-19 pandemic will result in nearly 10,000 additional deaths due to breast cancer and colorectal cancer over the next decade, according to NCI projections.

Clinical trials for atrial fibrillation treatments often lack diverse patient populations, according to a recently published research letter in JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology. It was the top story in cardiology last week.

Garth Walker, MD, MPH, is an emergency room physician in Chicago, the chief medical officer and head of innovation for Clinify Inc., and the chief equity officer of Illinois Medical Professionals Action Collaborative Team, also known as IMPACT. In this episode, we discuss the two public health crises currently facing the nation, structural racism and its impact on health care, and a path forward.

African American and Hispanic populations were often underrepresented in clinical trials of treatments for atrial fibrillation, according to a research letter published in JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology.

The Endocrine Society held silent for 8 minutes and 46 seconds to acknowledge the death of George Floyd and then spoke of efforts to build a more inclusive environment and increase minority representation in science and health care.

Racial injustice is in plain view. Most understand and agree what happened to George Floyd was appalling and that Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray and Eric Garner represent inexcusable police brutality and abuse of power.