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Food as Medicine — The Answer to Mounting Health Crises Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, has written a number of excellent books about health. His latest, “Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine” goes deep into the details of how changes in our food supply have damaged our metabolic health. (The created term “metabolical” is actually a portmanteau of the w...

Adobe In what some are calling a “persistent failure” of medical schools to improve diversity, a comprehensive new analysis going back 40 years shows the number of students from the most underrepresented groups in medicine —  Black males and Native American and Alaskan Native men and women — has declined. While Black male medical students accounted for 3.1% of the national medical student body in 1978, in 2019 they accounted for just 2.9%. Without the contribution of historically Black...

Study: Portion of US doctors who are Black men unchanged since 1940 Research finds pay disparities largely unchanged since 1960, the percentage of Black physicians has risen just 4 points since 1900. 3:36 pm, Apr. 20, 2021 × Photo: RODNAE Productions/Pexels ROCHESTER, Minn. — A new study has learned that the percentage of American doctors who are Black men has not changed since 1940, and that the percentage of doctors who are Black has only risen 4 percentage points sin...

Fighting for an Education: How the U.S. Barred African Americans from Medical School In honor of Black History Month, we’re taking a look at historically black medical schools and how they found a way to rise above systemic racism to make sure African Americans could pursue their dreams of becoming doctors and nurses. Black people were often denied access to medical care, so members of the community focused on advancing their education to make sure they could provide care to their own. Althou...