Mass General Brigham Jul 30 2025 Last July, a team of physicians and researchers successfully proposed modifications to the American Medical Association (AMA) Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment , advocating against the use of race in lung function testing. In a new publication in The New England Journal of Medicine , the team describes the history of how race and pulmonary function testing have been used to quantify lung function impairment, which often determines disability and