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American Academy of Pediatrics says it will review evidence on safety of gender care and surgery for children, but keeps current treatment recommendations

New York Times | 
The American Academy of Pediatrics backed gender-related treatments for children on Thursday, reaffirming its position from 2018 on a medical ...
Obesity, stress and chemicals: Do these factors explain why girls are reaching puberty at increasingly younger ages?

Obesity, stress and chemicals: Do these factors explain why girls are reaching puberty at increasingly younger ages?

New York Times | 
Although it is difficult to tease apart cause and effect, earlier puberty may have harmful impacts, especially for girls. Girls ...
Embryo screening PGT-A tests may falsely identify healthy embryos as abnormal

Embryo screening PGT-A tests may falsely identify healthy embryos as abnormal

New York Times | 
When they began their first two rounds of in vitro fertilization in 2015, Anna Dahlquist and her husband, Brian, took ...
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Should transgender teenagers be required to undergo psychological assessments before receiving hormones? Debate surges

New York Times | 
An upsurge in teenagers requesting hormones or surgeries to better align their bodies with their gender identities has ignited a ...
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Genetic testing companies grapple with how to deal with white supremacists

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White supremacists are using cheap, rapid DNA-testing services such as 23andMe to post “evidence” of their white European ancestry on ...

HIV gene therapy in development, with boost from Bill Gates

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  In a bid to ...

UN report declares surgeries on intersex babies human rights violation

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  The United Nations recently convened ...

Did pharmaceutical company exploit feminism to get ‘female Viagra’ government approval?

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Addyi, a drug that ...

Should doctors have authority to decide gender of intersex babies?

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Roughly one in every 2,000 babies in the U.S. are born with a range of traits that fall somewhere along the ...

International gathering of scientists, ethicists seeks to set standards for future of biotech

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Roughly 135 scientists, bioethicists, philosophers, lawyers, and policymakers from 25 countries wrapped up the first-ever global summit to carve out ...
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Lost your head? Sorry, you can’t get a new one anytime soon

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Last month, Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero made waves when he announced he’d discovered the key to performing a totally crazy surgery: ...

Is century-old remedy the solution to antibiotic resistance?

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Since the discovery of penicillin in 1928, scientists have amassed a medical arsenal of more than 130 antibiotics. The drugs ...
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