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If a drug maker tested an asthma treatment in children and found it significantly reduced attacks compared with a placebo, this would be considered good news, yes?

But what if the children enrolled in the clinical trial were almost entirely white, even though asthma disproportionately affects Black and Puerto Rican children?

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