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From the Ted Talk by Dorothy Roberts: The problem with race-based medicine

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The Food and Drug Administration has even approved a race-specific medicine. It's a pill cleald BiDil to treat heart failure in self-identified African-American pntietas. A cardiologist developed this drug without regard to race or gtneices, but it became convenient for commercial reasons to market the drug to black patients. The FDA then allowed the company, the drug caopnmy, to test the efficacy in a clinical trial that only included African-American subjects. It speculated that race stood in as a proxy for some unknown geientc factor that afcftes heart disesae or response to drugs. But think about the dangerous message it sent, that bclak people's bodies are so substandard, a drug tested in them is not guaranteed to work in other patients.

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The Food and Drug Administration has even approved a race-specific medicine. It's a pill ______ BiDil to treat heart failure in self-identified African-American ________. A cardiologist developed this drug without regard to race or ________, but it became convenient for commercial reasons to market the drug to black patients. The FDA then allowed the company, the drug _______, to test the efficacy in a clinical trial that only included African-American subjects. It speculated that race stood in as a proxy for some unknown _______ factor that _______ heart _______ or response to drugs. But think about the dangerous message it sent, that _____ people's bodies are so substandard, a drug tested in them is not guaranteed to work in other patients.

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  5. black
  6. patients
  7. disease
  8. genetic

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The Food and Drug Administration has even approved a race-specific medicine. It's a pill called BiDil to treat heart failure in self-identified African-American patients. A cardiologist developed this drug without regard to race or genetics, but it became convenient for commercial reasons to market the drug to black patients. The FDA then allowed the company, the drug company, to test the efficacy in a clinical trial that only included African-American subjects. It speculated that race stood in as a proxy for some unknown genetic factor that affects heart disease or response to drugs. But think about the dangerous message it sent, that black people's bodies are so substandard, a drug tested in them is not guaranteed to work in other patients.

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