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Registered nurses can no longer sign school excuse letters in Wisconsin starting Sept. 1
Gov. Tony Evers signed a bill Friday to remove registered nurses from the list of those allowed to excuse an absence.
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From legal to murder threats, advocates of transgender treatment for kids counter Trump policies
Office of New York's Letitia James resurrects legal argument Supreme Court rejected to compel hospital to resume medicalized gender transitions for minors. Obama judge decries "stench" of DOJ seeking anonymized patient records.
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Bhattacharya goes from US health policy outsider to leading top agencies at Trump's personal request
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Bhattacharya was a medical doctor and professor at Stanford University,
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Deputy CDC Director Ralph Abraham departs agency in latest HHS shake up
It comes after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ousted CDC Director Jim O'Neill earlier this month, and replaced him with National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya until a new leader is selected.
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'Greys Anatomy' star Eric Dane dies from ALS at the age of 53
Dane's passing was confirmed by his publicist, who said the actor died Thursday afternoon where he was surrounded by friends and loved ones, including daughters Billie and Georgia Dane and wife Rebecca Gayheart.
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Accreditation for medical schools emerges as weak spot for youth gender transition industry
Board of Governors of the State University System of Florida grills accreditor on how it let a practice with so little evidence, and irreversible consequences, become so entrenched in med schools, teaching hospitals.
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Manhattan hospital ends transgender treatments for minors
“Given the recent departure of our medical director, coupled with the current regulatory environment, we made the difficult decision to discontinue our Transgender Youth Health Program,” NYU Langone Health said
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American Medical Association creates its own vaccine safety, effectiveness review system
The AMA’s evaluation will be done in collaboration with the Vaccine Integrity Project at the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota and will focus on COVID-19, flu and RSV vaccines.
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Fauci Fallout: New NIH chief says all gain-of-function research stopped, no lockdowns in future
Gain of function research is a controversial form of science that tries to enhance deadly viruses and bacteria to make them more deadly in an effort to study future pandemic responses.
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AMA's medical education infused with political ideology, Do No Harm says
In order to maintain their license to practice medicine, medical professionals must continually keep up with their education – in varying degrees state by state – as explained by Do No Harm’s report, with the American Medical Association (AMA) offering such Continuing Medical Education (CME).
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Doctor groups backpedal from medicalized gender transitions for kids as lawsuits threaten field
American Medical Association tries to save "endocrine interventions" as plastic surgeons warn whole field plagued by weak evidence. Mainstream media portray defendants in $2 million verdict as outliers.
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American Medical Association flips on gender identity surgeries, now 'generally' opposes for minors
Statement closely follows new guidance from plastic surgeons group against performing procedures on gender-confused minors, though AMA still supports non-surgical "gender affirming care."
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You Vote: Plastic Surgeons group urges delaying gender-change surgeries until age 19. What say you?
The ASPS, which represents more than 11,000 physicians globally, agreed with HHS that there is low certainty in the risk-benefit ratio for gender-related surgical interventions for minors.