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Turning Point In U.S. History: Our Chance To Do Better With Clinical Trials By Charlotte Jones-Burton, MD, VP of Clinical Development-Nephrology, Otsuka Over a decade ago, I made the decision to transition from being a full-time physician to designing and executing clinical trials to help develop the innovative therapies that will transform and shape the future of medicine. As I transitioned to this new role, I could not help but notice there were not many people who looked like me — a black ...

Lets go door to door to register people, and set up COVID-19 vaccine clinics in locations and during times that work for communities of color.

Vaccine hesitancy among racial minorities likely due to history of untrustworthy medical practices, experts say Eli Kirshbaum | Feb 17, 2021 Share this: The U.S. has an extensive history “shaking confidence in science and medicine” for racial minorities, according to Francisco Lucio, JD, associate dean at the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Arizona. He said this is an important backdrop for the considerable hesitation to receive the COVID-19 vaccine...

A lingering mistrust of the medical system among many Black people is rooted in the infamous 20th century U.S. study of syphilis that left Black men in Tuskegee, Ala., to suffer from the disease.

Sam Ben-Meir: Reflections on the Tuskegee Study and its moral harm Published Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, 9:45 am Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP | Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com Front Page » Government/Politics » Politics2 » Sam Ben-Meir: Reflections on the Tuskegee Study and its moral harm (© MEGAWE STUDIO – stock.adobe.com) Black History Month challenges all of us to learn,...

In Philadelphia, a mass vaccination clinic opened with fanfare, then closed amid rifts of trust Frances Stead Sellers © Rachel Wisniewski/For the Washington Post People wait in an observation area after receiving a coronavirus vaccine at the mass-vaccination site set up by Philly Fighting COVID at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Jan. 15. PHILADELPHIA —This citys first mass vaccination site looked like a model of 21st-century efficiency. Run by a neuroscience graduat...

Mass vaccination clinic opened with fanfare, closed amid rifts of trust Frances Stead Sellers, The Washington Post Feb. 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6People wait in an observation area after receiving a coronavirus vaccine at the mass-vaccination site set up by Philly Fighting COVID at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Jan. 15, 2021.Photo for The Washington Post by Rachel WisniewskiShow MoreShow Less 2of6Andrei Doroshin poses for a photo at his Philadelphia apartment in J...

Listen • 3:22 Pastor Timothy Sloan interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, about the COVID-19 vaccine. The Zoom call aired during a virtual Sunday sermon at the Luke Church in Humble. When the COVID-19 vaccine was authorized for use in December, Pastor Timothy Sloan was chatting with some of his congregants and the question of whether to get the vaccine came up. Sloan leads a Black megachurch in Humble called Th...

Bidens vaccine push runs into distrust in the Black community Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Frances Stead Sellers, The Washington Post Feb. 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Michelle Chester administers a coronavirus vaccine to Dr. Yves Duroseau at Long Island Jewish Medical Center on Dec. 14.photo for The Washington Post by Sarah Blesener. Former Tuskegee, Ala., mayor Johnny Ford rolled up his right sleeve and smiled behind his mask as the first dose of coronavirus vaccine entered his arm - a televise...

By Andrea Shorter– Happy Birthday, Black History Month! This year you are 95 years old. Born in 1926 as “Negro History Week” as a creation of historian and educator Carter G. Woodson, you eventually became a month-long celebration in the U.S. bicentennial year of 1976 to coincide with the February birthdays of former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass and President and emancipator Abraham Lincoln. Of note, February was also the birth month of civil rights icon Rosa Parks—on Febru...