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Study: More Teens Reject Gender Labels

More teenagers are identifying themselves with nontraditional gender labels such as transgender or gender-fluid, according to a new study. The research, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, found that almost 3% of Minnesota teens did not identify with traditional gender labels such as “boy” or “girl.” That number is higher than researchers expected. A UCLA […]

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House Votes to Gut A.D.A.

In a 225-192 vote Thursday, most House Republicans and a dozen Democrats passed a bill that makes it harder for disabled persons to sue for discrimination, in an effort to prevent opportunistic attorneys from taking advantage of business owners. But many disability and civil rights groups fear the bill will weaken incentives for businesses to […]

Budget Cuts Funds for Tracking Global Disease

There’s a glaring hole in President Trump’s budget proposal for 2019, global health researchers say. A U.S. program to help other countries beef up their ability to detect pathogens around the world will lose a significant portion of its funding. The ambitious program, called Global Health Security Agenda, was launched in early 2014, aiming to […]

Trump Budget Slashes Funds for HHS

A major target of the budget is Medicaid, which sees more than $1 trillion in cuts and is turned into a block grant program with greater power to states to implement means-testing. The document assumes repeal of most of the ACA, but interestingly includes funding for risk corridor and cost-sharing payments for insurers. The plan […]

Sign-Ups for Obamacare Holding Steady in 2018

WASHINGTON — Almost 12 million Americans signed up for 2018 health coverage through marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act, according to a new tally that indicates nationwide enrollment remained virtually unchanged from last year despite President Donald Trump’s persistent attacks on the 2010 health law. The new enrollment numbers — which include totals from […]

Expert: Sexual Abuse Can Lead to Physical Illness

When Rebecca Thurston read the accounts of 150 women and girls sexually abused by a Michigan athletic doctor, one of the first things she worried about was their health — not the psychological effect of the abuse, but the long-term physical toll it could take on their bodies. An epidemiologist, Thurston has spent the past […]

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Glitch Results in Pay Cuts for Public Health Workers

About 3,000 Public Health Service physicians and other workers saw their paychecks unexpectedly slashed last month because of government delays setting up a payment system Congress ordered a decade ago. “A number of unanticipated events impacted our ability to fully execute these provisions,” Surgeon General Jerome Adams told Public Health Service Commissioned Corps officers in […]

Brits Defend System After Tweet Attack

Prime Minister Theresa May and other British politicians defended this nation’s beloved, taxpayer-funded public health system Monday after President Trump said it was “going broke and not working.” May said she is “proud” of the National Health Service (NHS) after Trump said in a tweet that “thousands of people” in Britain were “marching about it.” […]

Planned Parenthood Slams Rule on Moral Objections

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, is encouraging their supporters to tell the Department of Health Human Services (HHS) that a proposed rule to strengthen conscience protections for healthcare providers is “dangerous” and “encourages discrimination.” The rule requires health care providers to notify their employees of protections against religious discrimination on job applications and […]

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Half of Post-9/11 Vets Lack Mental Care

About half of U.S. veterans who served during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq don’t get the mental health care they need, according to a new report that recommends changes to improve the care delivered by the Veterans Affairs health system. While many veterans receive good mental health care through the VA , it’s inconsistent […]

State of Union Touts End to Mandate

In his State of the Union address, President Trump seemed to attempt to declare victory in the Republican effort to eliminate Obamacare, stating that “we repealed the core” of it. But the Affordable Care Act, the law’s expansion of Medicaid benefits for the poor and subsidized private individual coverage known as Obamacare are still covering […]

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Healthcare Groups Welcome Alex Azar at HHS

HHS again has a permanent leader as former Eli Lilly executive Alex Azar was sworn in as the department’s secretary on Jan. 29—four months to the day after his predecessor, Tom Price, MD, resigned over his use of publicly-funded charter flights. Azar was sworn in at the White House by Vice President Mike Pence. In […]

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