April 13, 2015 – Program on Medicines and Public Health

Genes Don’t Cause Racial-Health Disparities, Society Does

Author By ashoosht
Publication date April 13, 2015
Categories: Access to Medicines in Vulnerable Populations, Drug Access, Highlights, News, Pharmacy Access

The Atlantic, April 13, 2015. Researchers are looking in the wrong place: White people live longer not because of their DNA but because of inequality. As a thought experiment, say that scientists got ancestry right and cooked up a drug that closed the cardiovascular disease mortality gap. Would it do any good? Considering that more…Continue Reading Genes Don’t Cause Racial-Health Disparities, Society Does