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March 17
HOUSE CALLS CLASSIC: RACE AND MEDICINE
With the FDA approval of a heart medication that works specifically for African American patients and the increasing awareness of the differences in health needs among ethnicities, health care professionals are taking a second look at the intersection of race and medicine. Will this be an era where drug development further separates races? Does race based medicine take us back several steps or move us forward? Tune in as we talk with Dr. Winston Price, President of the National Medical Association, Jon Entine, author of Abraham’s Children: How Genetics is Unlocking Jewish Identity and the Hidden History of the Bible, and Dr. Sheila Garris, Internist at Contemporary Medicine Associates and Associate Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School about the issue of race and medicine.
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