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Reason
May 2001
Nick Gillespie |
The Census and The Sopranos Adventures in a post-racial America...   |
Foundation News & Commentary
Sep/Oct 2006
Emmett D. Carson |
The Black/Brown Divide There is much that foundations can do to improve relations between Mexican and African Americans. By creating a shared dialogue, foundations can assist African and Mexican Americas in finding and acting on their mutual self-interest. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
June 1, 2011 |
To Screen or Not to Screen? What do our genetics tell us about our predisposition to certain diseases? What does this mean for pharmaceutical companies? |
Bio-IT World
September 9, 2002
Kevin Davies |
The Debate Over Race Relations Are self-identified labels of race useful in large-scale population genetic studies? A provocative commentary from a leading Stanford University geneticist has fuelled controversy. |
Scientific American
June 5, 2006
Sally Lehrman |
Trace Elements Even as population geneticists battle over the meaning of race and biogeographical ancestry, a small industry has emerged out of the quest to understand human migration and identity. One new firm helps African-Americans reconnect to their ancestral past. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
November 1, 2011
Elizabeth O. Coulton |
Clinical Trial Issues Not Just Black and White The selection of clinical trial participants must meld with the changing demographics of America if industry is to improve medicines that work for patients. |
Wired
September 2005
Brendan I. Koerner |
Blood Feud These are boom times for the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma. But tough times for thousands of black Indians battling for tribal citizenship. Now the Freedmen are turning to genetic science for help. |
Salon.com
August 11, 2000
Jackie Stevens |
Does capitalism make you sick? Gene studies are sexy and well funded, but they can buttress racial thinking and distract the public from the socioeconomic roots of disease. |
Food Processing
September 2012
Diane Toops |
The New American Majority How food and beverage marketers are targeting Hispanics, Asians and other fast-growing demographic groups. |
Managed Care
May 2001
Michael D. Dalzell |
Powerful Opportunities For Good and Greed Genetic advances could spawn incredible improvements in health care. Given public demand, they also pose what may be unmanageable issues of resource use... |
InternetNews
November 9, 2010 |
What's Holding Back Wider Broadband Adoption? The government's Digital Nation II report is based on data collected from 54,000 households by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2009. |
Salon.com
March 16, 2001
Daryl Lindsey |
Counting the mix With a surprising number of African-Americans identifying themselves as multiracial, the Census Bureau has some colorful math to do. |
IDB America
August 2001
Charo Quesada |
Invisible citizens? Censuses in many Latin American countries omit questions about race, rendering minority groups statistically invisible... |
Wired
November 2002
David Ewing Duncan |
DNA as Destiny DNA is the book of life. It's also the book of death. In the future we'll all be read cover to cover. Here's what it's like to take the world's first top-to-bottom gene scan. |
Nurse Practitioner
August 2009
Linda A. Howe |
Pharmacogenomics and management of cardiovascular disease Prior to the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, individual responses to medications were usually termed idiosyncrasies. Ethnic differences were not usually seen as genetic variants, as is the case today. |
IDB America
August 2001
Charo Quesada |
A revolution sparked by numbers The latest United States census catapults the Hispanic population into the headlines -- and into the political big leagues... |
Smithsonian
February 2007
Whitney Dangerfield |
Family Ties African Americans use scientific advances to trace their roots. |
Managed Care
November 2000 |
Rise in employer-based coverage spurs drop in ranks of uninsured The Census Bureau reports that the number of Americans without health insurance dropped from 44 million in 1998 to 42 million in 1999, thanks in large part to a boost in the share of employers offering job-based coverage... |
Bio-IT World
June 2005
Kevin Davies |
First Base: Genes, Geography, and History The National Genographic Project will collect blood samples from populations around the globe, then use genetic data to trace population origins and migration routes. Some groups are critical. |
Information Today
August 2, 2012 |
Census Bureau API Lets Developers Create Custom Apps The U.S. Census Bureau launched a new online service that makes key demographic, socioeconomic, and housing statistics more accessible than ever before. |
Managed Care
May 2005
Martin Sipkoff |
Predictive Modeling & Genomics: Marriage of Promise and Risk Integration of predictive modeling and genomic tools means improved technology, enhanced databases, and appropriate legal guidance. |
Bio-IT World
November 14, 2003
Kathy Ordonez |
Targeted Medicine via Molecular Diagnostics Using diagnostics to select and deselect target populations for drug therapy will enable life scientists to make more effective medicines. |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
John Carey |
The NIH's Roadmap for Research Charting the human genome was just the beginning. Now the focus is creating pathways that will lead to practical applications. |
BusinessWeek
November 7, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
How Likely Are You To Get Sick? A new DNA database could gauge your risk for disease. |
Managed Care
November 2006
Maureen Glabman |
Genetic Testing: Major Opportunity, Major Problems Whether a person is likely to develop diabetes, cancer, schizophrenia, or stroke will be reasonably well predicted, and tests can also determine whether a patient will respond to a given therapy. That's the good part. |
Entrepreneur
April 2004
Kim T. Gordon |
In the Mix If your marketing efforts don't already include ethnic and minority media, now is the time to start. |
Bio-IT World
February 10, 2003
Salvatore Salamone |
Made in Manhattan A talk with the new head of the Computational Biology Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2007
Simon A. Cole |
Double Helix Jeopardy DNA databases help solve crimes but some say they also aid and abet racial discrimination. Can there be a compromise between the desire for privacy and the need for crime control? |
