Tag: STAT

  • Should biologists stop grouping us by race? STAT: Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine 2016-02-04 Sharon Begley More than a decade after leading geneticists argued that race is not a true biological category, many studies continue to use it, harming scientific understanding and possibly patients, researchers argued in a provocative essay in Science…

  • Teaching medical students to challenge ‘unscientific’ racial categories STAT: Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine 2016-03-10 Ike Swetlitz Dr. Brooke Cunningham talks about race to medical students at the University of Minnesota. Jenn Ackerman for Stat MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Medical students looking to score high on their board exams sometimes get a bit…