Azeen Ghorayshi
American Academy of Pediatrics says it will review evidence on safety of gender care and surgery for children, but keeps current treatment recommendations
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?
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
When they began their first two rounds of in vitro fertilization in 2015, Anna Dahlquist and her husband, Brian, took ...
Should transgender teenagers be required to undergo psychological assessments before receiving hormones? Debate surges
An upsurge in teenagers requesting hormones or surgeries to better align their bodies with their gender identities has ignited a ...
Genetic testing companies grapple with how to deal with white supremacists
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
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
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?
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?
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
Roughly 135 scientists, bioethicists, philosophers, lawyers, and policymakers from 25 countries wrapped up the first-ever global summit to carve out ...
Lost your head? Sorry, you can’t get a new one anytime soon
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?
Since the discovery of penicillin in 1928, scientists have amassed a medical arsenal of more than 130 antibiotics. The drugs ...