August 18th, 2008
I received an e-mail today from Lambda Legal announcing that the California Supreme Court ruled today that doctor’s cannot deny treatment to patients based on their religious views about gays and lesbians. The ruling is the result of a lawsuit brought by Guadalupe Benitez, a California woman, in 2001 who says that, after 11 months […]
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August 1st, 2008
To add another word to our recent posts about the regulation of tobacco products by the FDA, let’s not forget the discussions that are taking place about how this regulation may be perpetuating racial health disparities. The legislation as it now stands includes an exemption for mentholated tobacco products which, according to this week’s Kaiser […]
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June 10th, 2008
That many racial health disparities exist is not news. What might be news, though, is that a new diabetes study found that disparities in treatment and outcomes may be due to physicians treating everyone the same rather than treating patients differently.
The study, published yesterday in the The Archives of Internal Medicine, looked at the treatment […]
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