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Love this!

The fully explored answer to that is an article (or book) in and of itself, I can't cover every single outcome but highlight some prominent ones in a 2000 word article.

I 100% disagree with everything you say here. For one, that is not a PR disaster as the headline you're using is one no one would ever use as it is insensitive. In fact what would …

Well you’d have to do basic research, come up with a hypothesis, then run a clinical trial to test that hypothesis. And hopefully find useful information although clinical trials d…

There is actually a push here (ignoring mandated public funded trials) because the Minority populations are becoming large enough that if a diabetes drug that was better in black p…

We don’t because no one has run a clinical trial to find out why :(

That only happens for certain drugs, typically treatment naive diabetes, IBD and other chronic disease patients where in the US there’s a standard treatment the patients receive ri…

Totally agree, "bucketing" is certainly hard, but to define every possible bucket would have me writing an entire book. This piece is meant to get the discussion started and open p…

I could write a whole other article on this as well. The pregnant women part actually fits extremely well in this context even more so, they aren't neglected, they are specifically…

That's 100% true, I'm not saying we have to create a new drug, but define what is the best treatments available, as well as take that into account when the treatments are being mad…

More minority volunteers, and having clinical trials where minorities go to for care. Great example is most of the well funded academic institutions that run research are in afflue…

* All Minorities, not one minority, and technically I believe all funded research should reflect the populations that exist rather than focusing on one, and take the various geneti…

If I were to cover every one of the points you called out in detail (which are all valid) I'd end up with an entire book haha.

Thank you!!

Your assumption seemed to be that genetics didn't tie to ethnicity, which it is hence I restated it.

110% agree. The government has actually had a mandate out for publicly funded research since 1993, but only have enforcement rules been enacted and we have yet to see if they will …

It would mean that if a drug was inefficient on an African American of Zimbabwe descent, the same drug would be unlikely to be efficient on the black people Zimbabwe. There are mea…

Honestly I have no idea which would have a better outcome, but I know both would have a great impact. My assumption would be the second one if I had to pick though, for example as …

Attacks from everywhere haha. I'll keep educating anyone I can on this until the day I die!

Your assumption in #2 is incorrect. What actually happens often is the doctor doesn't know what to prescribe the patient and the patients quality of life suffers. As well as stated…

I'm going to quote what someone said below because this is blatantly false "This is not only false, but dangerously false. We are in the process of discovering that certain classes…

You completely missed the point. I specifically put statistics in my article to refute this. In many clinical trials African Americans that contract various conditions at the same …

It is an indirect correlation. BMI is a factor related to the likelihood of having diabetes, and what's considered a safe range for white people is an unsafe range for Asians. Thus…