APOL1 Nephropathy-The Cause of Kidney Failure in Black Patients

In 1966, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, “Of all forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death. I see no alternative to direct action and creative nonviolence to raise the conscience of the nation.” -There are 500,000 dialysis patients in the United…

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INSULIN FOR ALL

Almost one hundred years ago researchers Banting, Best, Collip, and Macleod isolated insulin for clinical use. As reported by Amanda Foreman in the WSJ in July 2021 the researchers sold their patent rights for one dollar because they thought insulin was too vital to be exploited. She reports that insulin today is so expensive that…

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