Posted on 04/27/2017 8:35:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Getting diagnosed with cancer was “horrific” enough. But discovering that very few African American women like herself were enrolled in clinical trials to find a cure? That was almost as distressing for Tammie Denyse, a longtime breast cancer survivor in Sacramento.
In a 2011 report, the Food and Drug Administration noted that blacks were 12 percent of the population but only 5 percent of clinical trial participants; Hispanics, at 16 percent of the population, represented only 1 percent.
By being underrepresented in clinical trials, women and ethnic minorities can be at a huge health disadvantage when it comes to finding the best treatments or cures for certain diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, cancers (colon, prostate, cervix, lung) and high blood pressure. Genetic differences mean that a drug or therapy that might work best in whites, for example, may not work well in, say, Latinos or Asians.
With diseases that disproportionately affect nonwhites and women, “You can’t determine what therapies will work unless they’re in a study,” said Dr. Jonca Bull, associate commissioner of minority health with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
White rats?
Yes - we must make sure there is the proper balance of whites and blacks in every activity and endeavor.
Lets start counting white noses and black noses in the NFL, the NBA, state drivers license offices, TV ads, BET TV shows.....
And why aren’t there any whites in the Congressional Black Caucus?
Because it's a racist association?
It seems as if today everybody is a ‘victim’ of something or other.
That’s easy. Volunteer.
This is about scientific study.
Or, to put it another way — “scientifically, races are physically different, and need to be treated that way”
There is no such thing as “too many whites”.
Name says it all...
Why don’t they just use the white volunteers like Mengele did? What use are white people, anyway?
/s (if I even need this)
Fine - then they need to add a lot of Whites to sickle cell studies......
Then next we will have to send posters to the male barbershops, and female beauty salons and wig shops for the females, since they are the black community centers,
or we could get a list of the 'after hours' party houses, or advertise on all the 'hip-hop' stations, or fired chicken outlets to get a truly representative population.
Government employees in DC
There is actually some scientific validity to this.
Because despite the constant harangue of the diversity mongers, human beings DO differ by race in certain physiological ways.
In order to be able to treat everybody, you have to run trials with everybody.
If we’re not careful, before long it will be impossible to bring a new drug to market unless it has been separately tested for all races and all 57 genders ... and found to be equally effective on each and every one, lest a racist or heteronormative medicine enter circulation.
” to get a truly representative population. “
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I just left my pharmacy,which has been purchased by Walgreens.
I have been going there for 10 years.
When I walked in today I was stunned-——all of the former pharmacy people were gone and it is 100% black females.
100%
Not much diversity there, (The pharmacist that was replaced had been with the company for THIRTY YEARS.)
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I’m going to go against the flow and say this is absolutely right. There can be significant differences between the races when it comes to medicine and denying it does everyone a disservice. For example, I’m a pathologist actively involved in cervical cancer prevention and diagnosis. The types of HPV that we test for and vaccinate against cause 70% of cervical cancer in whites but only about 33% in blacks. Meaning our current strategies are not reaching that part of the population adequately.
If research on white human bodies is not applicable to black bodies, are the black bodies human? Further, if the research on white bodies is not applicable to black bodies, why would one want to include them in a study? Theat would skew the results and render the study worthless to white or black.
Clinical trials ask for volunteers. If they don’t volunteer oh well
Would people complain if there are not enough whites in sickle cell studies?
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