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NHS England pauses new prescriptions of cross-sex hormones for under-18s
The health service said young people who already receive the drugs will continue to do so. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source
Journalists Explain a Spat Over Sugary Coffee and How Measles Fools Doctors
KFF Health News senior correspondent Renuka Rayasam discussed excited delirium on Vox Media Podcast Network’s Criminal on March 6. On CBS News’ CBS Mornings on March 5, Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed the Massachusetts...
Relying on drugs to stop obesity would be ‘societal failure’, says Chris Whitty
Speaking at the Medical Journalists' Association annual lecture, Sir Chris said he was worried about obesity as there is an "optimal weight" for healthy living, with larger waistlines increasing the risk of cancers, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and infections....
This Doctor-Senator Who Backed RFK Jr. Now Faces a Fight for His Job — And His Legacy
BATON ROUGE, La. — The ambitious liver doctor would go just about anywhere in his home state to give people the hepatitis B vaccine. Bill Cassidy offered jabs to thousands of inmates at Louisiana’s maximum-security prison in the early 2000s. A decade before that, he...
The People — And Research — Lost in the NIH Exodus
‘No Longer Based on Facts or Truth’ Sylvia Chou, 51, Maryland Program director, National Cancer Institute (Eric Harkleroad/KFF Health News) Sylvia Chou specializes in communication between patients and their health care providers, and social media’s role in public...
Six Federal Scientists Run Out by Trump Talk About the Work Left Undone
Marc Ernstoff, a physician who has pioneered immunotherapy research and treatments for cancer patients, said his work as a federal scientist proved untenable under the Trump administration. Philip Stewart, a Rocky Mountain Laboratories researcher focused on tick-borne...
‘I’m still haunted that he died alone’: The last voices of the Covid inquiry
Bereaved families have the final say as the Covid inquiry completes three years of public hearings. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source
‘Moment of reckoning’ needed in social care, says Louise Casey
In her speech, she described two NHS hospital trusts that tried to set up their own care services but discovered they could not make it "stack up" financially because anyone working in the NHS is better paid, and has better terms and conditions, than care staff....
Covid inquiry chair defends £200m cost and four-year process on final day
Baroness Heather Hallett said completing the hearings in under four years was an achievement but critics have questioned its cost. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source
Trying to get social care can be ‘horrendous’, Baroness Casey tells BBC
The independent commission started work last summer. It has been examining the problems facing the care system in England and is due to produce a report this year with a plan for how to create a National Care Service. Phase two, which will look at how social care is...
Trump’s Cuts to Medicaid Threaten Services That Help Disabled People Live at Home
OTTUMWA, Iowa — Leisa and Kent Walker recently received a disturbing notice: The private company managing their son’s Medicaid coverage intends to cut nearly 40% of what it spends for caregivers who help him live at home instead of in a nursing home. Sam Walker, 35,...
As ICE Moved In, Minnesotans Set Up a Shadow Medical System. It’s a Lesson for Other Cities.
MINNEAPOLIS — Gabi has big brown eyes, pigtails, and a genetic condition that makes her bones brittle. They fracture easily, leaving the 2-year-old in such pain that her mother quit her job cleaning offices to stay home and cradle her in the one-bedroom apartment they...
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