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When should medicine talk about race?

Scientific American - Posted: August 25th, 2012, 4:33pm EDT

pRace is everywhere in medicine. Most health statistics are broken down by race . We routinely characterize diseases by which populations they affect more and less and medications by which ethnicities respond better or worse./ppIt s so ubiquitous that it s easy to take for granted as justified. But the use of race in medicine is a subject that is vigorously debated. Whenever a new study comes out stratifying results by race, there are inevitably supporters and critics./p a href=http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=when-should-medicine-talk-about-race[More]/a

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