If you've ever filled out a demographic form (like the US Census), you've probably been asked about your race and ethnicity. You might even wonder exactly what those terms mean and how they differ.

In the United States, race, ancestry, genetics, and medicine are inextricably linked in a complex and fraught history. Medicine is replete with examples of racial injustice inflicted by the use of ...

A long-standing tradition in American medicine is to mention a patient’s race or ethnicity at the beginning of oral case presentations or written chart notes, particularly those by medical students or ...

Conducting health equity research relies on complete, accurate information about race and ethnicity. However, data quality issues, including race/ethnicity misclassification and data incompleteness, ...

The disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on historically marginalized communities has elevated and motivated a focus on equity-oriented data—especially race, ethnicity, and language (REL) ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers and scientists who utilize genetic and genomic data should rethink and justify how and why they use race, ethnicity, and ancestry labels in their work, says a new National ...

It never felt right to Bader Risheg to check off “white” on the U.S. census and other federal forms. “White” did not reflect how he felt about his identity or how he was treated — but that is how ...

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief said Monday that the violence and injustice faced by the ethnic Rohingya minority in Myanmar, where U.N. rights investigators have been barred from entering, ...