Recently, a group of scientists took a look at the state of diversity in clinical trials, and according to the results they published in PLOS One, the news was not good. The study, headed by Sam Oh and discussed in a paper titled “Diversity in Clinical and Biomedical Research: A Promise Yet to Be Fulfilled,” found that the vast majority of medical research uses a homogenous population of white males to research various drugs, diseases, and other medical issues.
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