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Yale Law School started the exodus last November: Dozens of law and medical schools, many among America’s most elite, vowed not to cooperate with the U.S. News & World Report rankings juggernaut. The publisher’s priority-skewing formula was flawed, administrators complained, as was the notion that schools could be scored and sorted as if they were […]
This story was originally posted in The Queen’s Gazette. Members of the Queen’s, Kingston, and Canadian medical communities gathered to mark the unveiling of a new Queen’s Remembers plinth commemorating those impacted by a 1918 ban that prevented the admission of Black students to Queen’s medical school up until 1965. In 2019, the university moved […]
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Chief Executive Officer for the Black River Hospital, Diana Brown-Miller (left), accepts a donation of medical supplies and equipment from Parottee Enrichment Project’s (PEP) executive board member, Marilyn Bennett, during a handover ceremony on August 17. The organisation donated approximately US$6,000 worth of equipment and supplies to the facility. Source link
Cells taken in 1951 from Lacks, a Black woman, without her knowledge became the cornerstone of modern medical research. The family of Henrietta Lacks has settled a lawsuit in the United States against a biotechnology company accused of reaping millions of dollars in profit from the use of her cells. They were the first human […]
– Journal Of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved Supplement Details COMPASS Progress at the Halfway Mark of the Ten-Year Initiative – FOSTER CITY, Calif. & NASHVILLE, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) and Meharry Medical College, one of the nation’s oldest and largest historically Black academic health science centers, today announced the […]
Word spread through an Oregon hospital last month that a visitor was causing trouble in the maternity ward, and nurses were warned the man might try to abduct his partner’s newborn. Hours later, the visitor opened fire, killing a security guard and sending patients, nurses and doctors scrambling for cover. The shooting at Legacy Good […]
Word spread through an Oregon hospital last month that a visitor was causing trouble in the maternity ward, and nurses were warned the man might try to abduct his partner’s newborn. Hours later, the visitor opened fire, killing a security guard and sending patients, nurses and doctors scrambling for cover. The shooting at Legacy Good […]
Twenty47studio/Moment RF/Getty Images CNN — Black parents and their children are more likely to experience unfair treatment when seeking medical care than others, a new study from the
Amna Nawaz: Doctors, nurses, hospitals and many others are concerned about how the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down affirmative action in college admissions could affect the medical profession. Currently, just 5.7 percent of all doctors in the U.S. are Black, and nearly 7 percent are Hispanic, while 64 percent are white. Black and Latino applicants […]