
Clinical trials inappropriately excluding people of African/Middle Eastern descent, new research shows
"Natural variation in neutrophil counts between people of different ancestry has been historically described by the inaccurate and now-outdated diagnosis 'benign ethnic neutropenia,'" says Stephen Hibbs of Queen Mary University of London, who led the study, published today by JAMA Network Open, and for which Dana-Farber's Andrew Hantel, MD is senior author.