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		<title>Where Access Meets Accountability: Or, Fame as Anesthesia</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will Whitney Houston&#8217;s death serve any useful purpose? More to the point, to what extent do we (yes, you) play a role in ensuring that her passing was not in vain? The beat goes on. The list of minority celebrities &#8220;gone too soon&#8221; is getting painfully long. This should underscore the harsh reality that even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clinicalambassador.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18433387&amp;post=198&amp;subd=clinicalambassador&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Henrietta Lacks and HeLa cells: Implications in Clinical Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Category    Where Have We Been For those of you who have experience with in vitro (cellular based) research, you are very likely familiar with the first immortal cell line called HeLa cells. The immortality of these cells, or ability of the cell line to continue be cultured and grown over and over again without dying, has been the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clinicalambassador.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18433387&amp;post=186&amp;subd=clinicalambassador&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where have we been: Part 3: “Bad Blood”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 02:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Category    Where Have We Been In previous posts, we have discussed the continued pervasive fear of doctors or &#8220;Iatrophobia&#8221; in the black community, particularly in the context of their reduced participation in clinical trials. We have highlighted the impact of unethical experimental research during slavery and the antebellum period in the US. In addition, due to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clinicalambassador.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18433387&amp;post=176&amp;subd=clinicalambassador&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where have we been: Part 2: Dawn of Hospital-Based Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 23:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I call &#8216;em body snatchers quick they come to fetch ya? With an autopsy ambulance just to dissect ya.&#8221; -Public Enemy &#8220;911 Is a Joke&#8221; (1990) As I was thinking about this post, I was reminded of the Public Enemy song, &#8220;911 Is a Joke&#8221;. The premise of the song was an attempt by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clinicalambassador.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18433387&amp;post=156&amp;subd=clinicalambassador&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Minority Inclusion: 10 Things You Can Do RIGHT NOW!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sun is blazing, the heat is mind-numbing and the Triangle is under a haze. When I couple my summer fever with the multitude of projects underway at Clinical Ambassador, the result is limited lengths of attention to any one thing. So in the spirit of my narrow ability to focus for a long stretch, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clinicalambassador.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18433387&amp;post=148&amp;subd=clinicalambassador&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>COME ON IN. THE WATER&#8217;S FINE!</title>
		<link>http://clinicalambassador.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/come-on-in-the-waters-fine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reluctance to stick one&#8217;s neck out in this arena is understandable, as it is historically rife with socio-political baggage. Nobody wants to step on what they fear is a land mine and expose their lack of cultural competence. And worse yet, in a professionally vulnerable manner. But we know what will happen if the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clinicalambassador.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18433387&amp;post=141&amp;subd=clinicalambassador&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where have we been: Part 1: Clinical Research in Slavery/Antebellum US</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The confluence of medical advancement and the slave trade is no mere coincidence. Prior to Africans being introduced into colonial United States, our nation&#8217;s medical system was primitive at best. The geographical proximity of Europeans, Native Americans and Africans in this new nation brought along with it an exposure of each group to new diseases, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clinicalambassador.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18433387&amp;post=120&amp;subd=clinicalambassador&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Minorities and Personalized Medicine: Promise (Yet) Unfulfilled</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Personalized medicine, in simplistic terms, encompasses the use of genetic information to optimize the development of medicines for specific patient populations. Pharmaceutical companies are widely interested in this drug development space, as it would allow them to perform more targeted marketing and create with confidence, drugs that are safe and efficacious for the targeted population.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clinicalambassador.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18433387&amp;post=106&amp;subd=clinicalambassador&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Colored Paper:  Fear As Motivator</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within the marginalized (read minority) communities, fear is public enemy number one. Fear—while it can be paralyzing and even hysterical—is a justifiable companion of those who have been exiled, enslaved, oppressed, discriminated against, incarcerated, and killed based on little more than race. For minorities, mere survival has necessitated a certain degree of fear. But fear [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clinicalambassador.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18433387&amp;post=82&amp;subd=clinicalambassador&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where are we?</title>
		<link>http://clinicalambassador.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/where-are-we/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s clinical environment, as a patient, in order to have access to the newest and most innovative drugs, you must participate in clinical trials. However, consistently, African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans are under- represented in clinical research studies. For example, according to the New England Journal of Medicine, African-Americans are 50% less likely to participate in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clinicalambassador.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18433387&amp;post=60&amp;subd=clinicalambassador&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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