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Following Atlanta hospital's decision, transgender rights advocates brace for more providers to suspend care for children

Health Advice / Health & Fitness /

ATLANTA — Advocates for transgender children worried a recent decision by Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to stop offering gender-affirming care may start a trend among the state’s providers, while advocates on the other side say they hope it does.

Children’s Healthcare is no longer allowing their providers to prescribe treatments to ...Read more

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California reports sharp rise in Valley fever cases for first 3 months of 2025

Health Advice / Health & Fitness /

LOS ANGELES — California is heading toward another record year for cases of Valley fever, the disease caused by fungal spores linked to cycles of drought and precipitation.

There were 3,123 reported cases of Valley fever in the first three months of the year, according to state health officials — roughly double the 10-year average for the ...Read more

Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services ordered to pay $60,000 to gay former employee after denying health benefits for husband

Health Advice / Health & Fitness /

BALTIMORE — A federal judge has ordered Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services to pay $60,000 to a gay former employee who said the agency revoked health insurance coverage for his husband, according to court documents.

The former employee, referred to as “John Doe” in court documents, worked as an information technology professional at...Read more

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The US is approaching a dangerous measles precipice, scientists say

Health Advice / Health & Fitness /

LOS ANGELES — In December, Stanford School of Medicine colleagues Dr. Nathan Lo and Mathew Kiang got to talking.

Childhood immunization rates were slowly but steadily falling nationwide, from 95% in the years before the pandemic to less than 93% in the 2023-24 school year.

If even that relatively small decline in vaccinations for measles, ...Read more

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Smoldering multiple myeloma: What it is, how it progresses and the latest research

Health Advice / Health & Fitness /

Multiple myeloma is a type of blood cancer caused by a buildup of abnormal plasma cells in the bone marrow. As the abnormal plasma cells accumulate, they crowd out healthy cells and cause symptoms such as bone pain and tiredness.

In 1980, Drs. Robert Kyle and Philip Greipp, Mayo Clinic hematologists, coined the term "smoldering multiple myeloma...Read more

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On Nutrition: Behind the news on whole dairy foods

Health Advice / Nutrition /

One of my first jobs as a registered dietitian was with the School Food Service Program in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I helped educate schools on nutrition guidelines and traveled around the state to evaluate school feeding programs according to USDA regulations.

That was before 2012 when Congress passed legislation to eliminate whole and reduced-...Read more

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Fate of Black maternal health programs is unclear amid federal cuts

Health Advice / Health & Fitness /

Eboni Tomasek expected to take home her newborn the day after he was born in a San Jose hospital. But, without explanation, hospital staff said they needed to stay a second night. Then a third. A nurse said her son had jaundice. Then said that he didn’t. She wondered if they had confused her with another African American mother. In any event, ...Read more

Raynaud's Phenomenon Causes Color Changes In The Hands

Health Advice / Keith Roach /

DEAR DR. ROACH: I'm pretty certain that I have Raynaud's disease. I develop white, burning and tingling hands if I don't keep warm, even with heavy gloves on. I notice it on the golf course during the wintertime if I'm not bundled up. My doctor up here in Canada agreed with my self-diagnosis but offered little in the way of a treatment or ...Read more

Type 2 diabetes news and views

More than half of folks with Type 2 diabetes say they're obsessively worried about developing diabetes-related complications, according to an International Diabetes Foundation survey. Well, two new studies may offer you an incentive to take optimal care of yourself and your diabetes and avoid the risk of heart, liver, kidney and brain ...Read more

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Blood pressure-lowering medication shows promise in new trial results

Health Advice / Health & Fitness /

People with high blood pressure that is uncontrolled or poorly treated with most medications may benefit from a new drug that is showing promise in clinical trial results, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The study found that lorundostat, the drug made by Pennsylvania-based Mineralys Therapeutics,...Read more

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Unvaccinated adult in downstate Marion was Illinois' first measles case of the year

Health Advice / Health & Fitness /

Illinois’ first measles case of the year was in an unvaccinated adult in downstate Marion, according to the state health department.

The Illinois Department of Public Health announced the first measles case Wednesday — news that comes amid a swell of measles cases across the country. The health department provided the additional details ...Read more

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Second Kentucky measles case confirmed by state health officials

Health Advice / Health & Fitness /

Kentucky has reported its second case of the measles this year, state officials confirmed Thursday in a press release.

In March, a child traveling through the state was diagnosed with the disease at a health care facility in Kentucky.

The child is not a resident of the U.S., but because they received a diagnosis in the commonwealth, it will be...Read more

Health investigation into NC State's Poe Hall ends due to federal government cuts

Health Advice / Health & Fitness /

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The health investigation into Poe Hall at North Carolina State University has ended due to federal workforce cuts by the Trump administration, Chancellor Randy Woodson announced Wednesday.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health had been conducting a health hazard evaluation, an evaluation of a workplace ...Read more

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UMN disease research center to launch vaccine integrity project

Health Advice / Health & Fitness /

The University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy is launching an initiative to examine how non-governmental entities can help protect vaccine policy, information and utilization in the U.S.

Called the Vaccine Integrity Project, the initiative’s steering committee will gather feedback from professionals across ...Read more

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Children's hospital in Atlanta suspends gender-affirming care for transgender kids

Health Advice / Health & Fitness /

ATLANTA — Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is no longer offering gender-affirming care to transgender children as the Trump administration turns up pressure on institutions to stop the practice.

Parents of transgender children receiving care at Children’s started receiving messages last week letting them know the nonprofit health system ...Read more

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The ranks of Obamacare 'fixers' axed in Trump's reduction of health agency workforce

Health Advice / Health & Fitness /

They’re the fixers, the ones who step in when Affordable Care Act enrollees have a problem with their coverage, like a newborn incorrectly left off a policy or discovering that a rogue broker had signed them up or switched their plan without consent.

Specially trained caseworkers help resolve such issues, which might otherwise cause consumers...Read more

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Mayo Clinic Q & A: 7 strategies to build resiliency

Health Advice / Health & Fitness /

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I'll admit I tend toward negative self-talk, and I'm frequently stressed out about work, family and health concerns. I know other people have problems too, but I feel like they handle it better. What can I do to help myself and be a role model for my children?

ANSWER: Resilient people are made, not born. There isn't a gene or ...Read more

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California halts medical parole, sends several critically ill patients back to prison

Health Advice / Health & Fitness /

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California has halted a court-ordered medical parole program, opting instead to send its most incapacitated prisoners back to state lockups or release them early.

The unilateral termination is drawing protests from attorneys representing prisoners and the author of the state’s medical parole legislation, who say it ...Read more

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Medi-Cal under threat: Who's covered and what could be cut?

Health Advice / Health & Fitness /

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. The state enrolls twice as many people as New York and more than three times as many as Texas — the two states with the largest number of Medicaid participants ...Read more

Taking Measures To Prevent Skin From Thinning As One Ages

Health Advice / Keith Roach /

DEAR DR. ROACH: I thought you could help with a stubborn problem. I am a healthy and active 78-year-old woman who, I admit, likes to look younger than my age. The problem is my skin, especially on my hands and arms; I get these bruises that look unsightly and take a while to resolve. I hear it is from age-related thin skin. My friends of this ...Read more

 

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