Bioethics & Health Disparities

THREE weeks to Election Day and polls project a victory, possibly a big one, for Barack Obama.

Yet everywhere, anxious Democrats wring their hands. They’ve seen this Lucy-and-the-football routine before, and they’re just waiting for their ball to be snatched away, the foiled Charlie Browns again. Remember how the exit polls in 2004 predicted President Kerry? Read the rest of this entry »

I heard about this study the other day on NPR. Here is what Newsweek has to say about it:

“A new study by a professor at the University of Texas at Austin suggests that home plate umpires call balls and strikes more favorably when the pitcher is their same race, Time magazine reported. Read the rest of this entry »

At first site one would be hard pressed to see the connection between Michael Richard’s rant and health disparities. On a closer look the connection seems a little more obvious, at least to some. Read the rest of this entry »