{"id":5296,"date":"2004-11-01T11:07:11","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T11:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5296"},"modified":"2021-06-09T23:09:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T23:09:46","slug":"scientists-debate-race-genetics-and-ethnic-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/11\/01\/scientists-debate-race-genetics-and-ethnic-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Debate Race, Genetics, and &#8220;Ethnic Medicine&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio-itworld.com\/news\/102904_report6447.html\">Scientists Debate Race, Genetics, and &#8220;Ethnic Medicine&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nBy Kevin Davies<br \/>\nBio-IT World (online) <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(10\/29\/04)\u00e2\u20ac\u201dA leading geneticist warned that approval of BiDil, which has been proclaimed as the first \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ethnic medicine,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d would be premature without pharmacogenetic evaluation to validate reports of its enhanced effectiveness in African-Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the American Society of Human Genetics conference in Toronto, David Goldstein, University of College London geneticist, said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If the [FDA] is seriously going to think about approving BiDil, they should first require a very substantial and serious pharmacogenetic effort to see if genetic determinants\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 might explain the [population] difference, and to search for environmental determinants, before you race forward for this medicine for one particular ethnic group.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists Debate Race, Genetics, and &#8220;Ethnic Medicine&#8221; By Kevin Davies Bio-IT World (online) (10\/29\/04)\u00e2\u20ac\u201dA leading geneticist warned that approval of BiDil, which has been proclaimed as the first \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ethnic medicine,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d would be premature without&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[126,199],"class_list":["post-5296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-racial-classifications","tag-health-and-medicine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1nq","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6999,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions\/6999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}