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 cant determine what therapies will work unless theyre 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 ...
Where’s the Congressional White Caucus? Or the European Caucus? Or the Asian Caucus?
I just know that my drug preventing ovarian cancer became twice as effective when I included men in the study. < /s>
As a scientific goal, having a societally valid cross-section of humanity in clinical trials is a very beneficial goal, but participation is always voluntary, and therefore is not likely to be perfectly symmetrical with society.
Any attempt to coerce minorities to increase participation or whites to decrease is eugenic murder.
Societal modeling is ideal, but may not be achievable in a voluntary situation. As long as no coercion is used (to increase minorities or decrease whites), I have no problem with this concept whatsoever. Anyone who objects to this does not understand the scientific method, in my humble opinion.
Isn’t being in a clinical trial voluntary?
After that Tuskegee STD deal Blacks don’t volunteer much. Once burnt, twice shy.
In the latter instance, a debunking group fed groups of rats only the cereal and water. The rats all died of various nutritional deficiencies, Then the debunking group fed other groups of rats empty ground-up cardboard cereal boxes mixed with milk. All the rats thrived.
Don't give them any more ideas!
The next thing you know the government will be busing old white people to the ghetto hair salons and make them get hair weaves and corn rows.
My Gosh...really important? What’s next?
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