Medical research subjects skew white and male, meaning that the most effective treatments are designed for and tested on white men. Doctors prescribe these standard treatments to female, black and Latino patients, but they are doing so without patient-based evidence they’ll be effective. Enter the Sangre Por Salud biobank, a collaboration between Mountain Park Health Center and the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. HuffPost: Who is eligible to donate blood to Sangre Por Salud? What are some of the barriers to enrolling Latinos in the Sangre Por Salud biobank?

Source: Huffington Post May 01, 2017 16:52 UTC