Today's Articles:

The View From School Medical school today, from medical students themselves

Personalized Medicine & the Future of Drug Safety Can personalized medicine that incorporates genetic information make prescribing drugs less risky?

Clinical Decision Making Under Conditions of Severe Uncertainty: The Info-Gap Solution

Diversity: It's not what medical schools think
"The American obsession with race reflects itself in its medical schools..."

Bob's Blog: Now I'm Really Worried

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Letters to the Editor

12/2/05: Comment on Bob's Blog, "Mr. Spock Again...About Favism"

KJ, of Albuquerque, wrote:

It occurs to me that there might be an unconscious element of racism in this reluctance to inform about favism--according to the favism organization's website, the deficiency is most common in people of African descent.

Bob Teague replied:

That's an interesting point. Historically, the intersection of G6PD deficiency with the consumption of fava beans occured in the Meriterranean cultures which were mostly European and mid-east. But in the US blacks constitute the largest group with the genetic predisposition. That's really interesting. The expert dude at Scrippps has got to know that.

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