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EPA seeks to limit ‘forever’ chemicals in U.S. drinking water
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- Lisa Nainggolan
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a new rule that would greatly limit the concentration of endocrine-disrupting ‘forever’ chemicals...
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Lilly cuts insulin price by 70%, caps out-of-pocket cost
- Author:
- Miriam E. Tucker
- Lisa Nainggolan
As of May 1, nonbranded insulins will cost $25 a vial, and Lilly says it will immediately cap out-of-pocket costs at $35 per month.
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FDA approves Wegovy (semaglutide) for obesity in teens 12 and up
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- Lisa Nainggolan
FDA approves semaglutide 2.4mg (Wegovy), a once-weekly subcutaneous injection, for treating obesity in adolescents aged 12 years and older.
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Florida medical boards ban transgender care for minors
- Author:
- Lisa Nainggolan
Once enacted, new state rules will prohibit children under the age of 18 from receiving puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to transition.
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Few transgender teens discontinue hormones in young adulthood
- Author:
- Lisa Nainggolan
Pioneering clinic’s research finds that 98% of transgender adolescents taking puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones were still taking the latter...
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WPATH removes age limits from transgender treatment guidelines
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- Lisa Nainggolan
Depending on interpretation, the latest version of the WPATH standards of care for transgender youth could be seen to have abandoned age limits on...
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Pediatricians at odds over gender-affirming care for trans kids
- Author:
- Alicia Ault
- Lisa Nainggolan
The American Academy of Pediatrics and some of its members are at odds over what the latter see as the organization’s refusal to discuss its 2018...
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Debate heats up on how best to treat gender-questioning kids
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- Lisa Nainggolan
Debate is intensifying about how best to treat gender dysphoria, with further restrictions on hormone treatment use in the under 18s in some U.S....
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Referrals to gender clinics in Sweden drop after media coverage
- Author:
- Becky McCall
- Lisa Nainggolan
The programs may have influenced and jeopardized young transgender individuals’ access to transgender-specific health care.
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‘We just have to keep them alive’: Transitioning youth with type 1 diabetes
- Author:
- Grazia Aleppo, MD
- Lisa Nainggolan
Transitioning a teen with type 1 diabetes from pediatric care to taking full responsibility for their own condition under an adult team is one of...
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More lots of metformin recalled
- Author:
- Lisa Nainggolan
- Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD
A further 33 lots of extended-release metformin 750-mg tablets have been voluntarily recalled by Viona because of possible contamination.
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AAP ‘silencing debate’ on gender dysphoria, says doctor group
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- Lisa Nainggolan
After initially allowing the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine to reserve an information booth at the AAP annual meeting, the AAP did a U...
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Call to action on obesity amid COVID-19 pandemic
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- Lisa Nainggolan
Hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide from COVID-19 could have been avoided if obesity rates were lower; call for people with obesity to be...
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Another lot of extended-release metformin is recalled in the U.S.
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- Lisa Nainggolan
Adding to two lots recalled in November, Nostrum Laboratories has issued a voluntary recall for another lot of extended-release metformin 750 mg...
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Obesity link to severe COVID-19, especially in patients aged under 60
- Author:
- Liam Davenport
- Lisa Nainggolan
Data suggest obesity is twice as likely to result in hospitalization for COVID-19 and can significantly increase...