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EPA seeks to limit ‘forever’ chemicals in U.S. drinking water

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Lisa Nainggolan
Publish date: March 17, 2023

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
Publish date: March 2, 2023

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
Publish date: January 3, 2023

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
Publish date: November 10, 2022

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

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Lisa Nainggolan
Publish date: October 24, 2022

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
Publish date: September 19, 2022

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
Publish date: August 17, 2022

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
Publish date: March 4, 2022

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
Publish date: February 7, 2022

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
Publish date: January 24, 2022

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
Publish date: January 3, 2022

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

Author:
Lisa Nainggolan
Publish date: August 17, 2021

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
Publish date: March 9, 2021

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.

Author:
Lisa Nainggolan
Publish date: January 14, 2021

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
Publish date: April 17, 2020

Data suggest obesity is twice as likely to result in hospitalization for COVID-19 and can significantly increase...

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