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Insurance Spurs Increase in Sex-Change Surgery

When Gaines Blasdel decided in 2012 that he wanted surgery so his physical identity would match the male character he’d long had in his head, his health insurance wouldn’t cover it — not even student coverage at Hampshire College, which he admits with a laugh is the “social justice warrior capital of the world.” Blasdel […]

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Mental Health Experts Condemn Transgender Ban

On Friday night, President Trump announced that he would once again attempt to ban transgender people from serving in the military, based on recommendations that their health concerns undermine military readiness. Since then, the nation’s two biggest mental health organizations have come forward to condemn that decision. The American Psychiatric Association responded Saturday with a statement from APA CEO […]

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AP: Promise for Vets’ Private Care Deadlocked

President Donald Trump is holding out the promise of better health care for veterans through an imminent expansion of private-sector services outside the Department of Veterans Affairs system. The problem: His campaign priority remains deadlocked in Congress as his VA secretary struggles with rebellion inside the agency. During the presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly pledged to […]

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HHS Website Drops Lesbian, Bisexual Resources

The Department of Health and Human Services quietly removed lesbian and bisexual content from its women’s health website last fall, according to a new report from the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit government watchdog group. The findings, released on Wednesday, noted that the HHS-operated Office of Women’s Health (OWH) “removed a webpage with extensive information about lesbian and bisexual health, […]

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Democrats See Chance to Improve Obamacare

President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010 ― eight years ago Friday. But this anniversary feels different from the ones that came before it. In the past, Democrats have been preoccupied with implementing the law and fending off efforts to destroy it. That was especially true last year, when […]

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Wendy Williams Talks About Graves’ Disease

Over the last 10 years, Wendy Williams’ popular daytime show has been known for discussing some of the entertainment industry’s hottest topics. But after she fainted live on the air during a show last October, her health became the most popular topic of them all. In a new interview with Good Morning America, Williams’opened up about her battle […]

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Lawyer: Nearly 100 Sex-Abuse Suits Filed Over Ex-V.A. Worker

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — The number of lawsuits accusing a former physician assistant at a Veteran’s Administration hospital in Kansas of sexual abuse is approaching 100. The Wichita Eagle reports that Kansas City attorneys Dan Curry and Sarah Brown filed three more lawsuits last week on behalf of former patients of Mark Wisner. He was sentenced […]

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DOJ Weighs ‘Major Litigation’ Against Opioid Makers

President Trump spoke Monday of using federal prosecutors to pursue “major litigation” against drug manufacturers alleged to have played a role in creating a nationwide epidemic of opioid abuse. Speaking in New Hampshire at the White House’s rollout of a national opioids strategy, the president expanded upon a Department of Justice release last month in […]

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Trump Appointees Targeted Teen Pregnancy Program

The Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of a federal program to prevent teen pregnancy last year was directed by political appointees over the objections of career experts in the Department of Health and Human Services, which administers the program, according to internal notes and emails obtained by NBC News. The trove shows three appointees with strict pro-abstinence beliefs — including […]

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Leaders Haggle Over Abortion, Healthcare in Spending Bill

Congressional negotiators laboring to write a trillion-dollar plan to fund the federal government are caught up in last-minute partisan disputes over abortion rights, health care costs and the fate of a Northeastern railway tunnel that President Donald Trump has sought to derail. House and Senate leaders must agree on a package before Friday’s deadline to […]

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Ohio to Appeal Ruling on Abortions

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s attorney general says he will appeal a federal judge’s decision to put on hold a state law that bans doctors from performing abortions based on a diagnosis of Down syndrome. Republican Attorney General Mike DeWine says Ohio has “profound interests in combating discrimination against a class of human beings based upon […]

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Trump Remarks Revive Debate on Asylums

Conversations on how American institutions interact with people struggling with mental illnesses have emerged once again following the Florida Parkland shooting. Experts across the country, including Penn’s bioethicists, have weighed in on solutions. A 2015 paper by Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy assistant professor Dominic Sisti has roared back into conversations as pundits […]

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