This Black woman’s bone density scan results list her ethnicity as ‘white.’ Why that’s a problem

This Black woman’s bone density scan results list her ethnicity as ‘white.’ Why that’s a problem

When Lorraine Brown got her bone density scan results earlier this year, she was shocked to find that the lab had listed her ethnicity as 'white' and that the results were based on norms for Caucasian women — because she is

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