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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 woman. The more I became acclimated within the industry, the more heightened my awareness of the fra...

Let's 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 among minority communities.     We are seeing this unwillingness largely as a result of the histo...

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 AFP's 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, reflect and understand many things about the Black American experience, among them the Tuskegee Sy...