Why minority representation in medical research is a matter of life and death

Editor’s note: A graphic in this segment misstated the abbreviations of one of the medical centers participating in the Lazarex study. It is UCSF, not USCF. NewsHour regrets the error.

U.S. racial and ethnic diversity is ever increasing, but the medical representation of minority groups is not. A recent review of government-funded cancer research studies found that participants were disproportionately white, and fewer than 2 percent of these clinical trials focused on minorities specifically. Special correspondent Cat Wise reports on the problem and efforts to correct it.

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