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Jill Fisher, Professor of Social Medicine, has published a new book, Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals (NYU Press). https://nyupress.org/9781479862160/adverse-events/ Explores the social inequality of clinical drug testing and its effects on scientific results. Imagine that you volunteer for the clinical trial of an experimental drug....

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — We know COVID-19 doesn’t discriminate. Anyone can get it. But we also know this virus is impacting people differently. https://abc11.com/society/how-minorities-are-disproportionately-affected-by-covid-19-in-nc/6160850/

  Prisons Doing Mass Testing For COVID-19 Find Rampant Infections | The Marshall Project An Arkansas county so rural it has just three incorporated towns and not a single stretch of interstate suddenly emerged this week as one of the nation’s coronavirus hotspots.Ground zero in Lincoln County, about an hour’s...

Which Is More Effective for Treating PTSD: Medication, or Psychotherapy? A systematic review and meta-analysis led by Jeffrey Sonis, MD, MPH, of UNC’s departments of social medicine and family medicine, finds there is insufficient evidence at present to answer that question. Clinicians should make shared decisions with patients about treatment,...

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The study led by UNC’s Jeffrey Sonis, MD, MPH, in the departments of social medicine and family medicine, finds that most of the approval processes used by medical specialty societies in the U.S. have the potential to undermine editorial independence of the guideline development committee. http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2020/february/approval-processes-for-clinical-practice-guidelines-introduce-potential-conflicts-of-interest-review-finds?utm_source=vs-email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=7 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0229004

AJPH special issue on mass incarceration as a driver of health inequities. No other industrialized democracy has a carceral system that is as expansive, punitive, and racialized as that of the United States. More than 2.2 million people in 2018 were incarcerated in jails and prisons, a sixfold increase since...

Providing a Safe Place for All Patients: Tonia Poteat interview with the American Academy of PAs Before becoming a PA, or even knowing about the profession, Tonia Poteat, PhD, MPH, PA-C, DFAAPA, knew she wanted to provide care to people living with HIV. “I was really interested in being a...

Discover magazine top science stories of 2019:  Scientists Put a Human Intelligence Gene Into a Monkey. Other Scientists are Concerned. Rebecca Walker  speaks with Discover magazine on scientists’ putting an “intelligence” gene in nonhuman primates. https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/scientists-put-a-human-intelligence-gene-into-a-monkey-other-scientists-are  

Jonathan Oberlander, PhD, chair of the Department of Social Medicine, coauthored a perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine on efforts in Congress to pass legislation that would regulate prescription drug prices. http://news.unchealthcare.org/som-vital-signs/2019/dec-12/oberlander-coauthors-nejm-commentary-on-prescription-drug-spending?utm_source=vs-email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=50