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The Courage to Follow the Evidence on Transgender Care
Hilary Cass is the kind of hero the world needs today. She has entered one of the most toxic debates in our culture: how the medical community should respond to the growing numbers of young people who seek gender transition through medical treatments ...
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Prestigious Medical Journal Ignored Nazi Atrocities, Historians Find
The New England Journal of Medicine published an article condemning its own record during World War II.
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Hospitals Must Get Written Patient Consent for Pelvic Exams, H.H.S. Says
In a letter to teaching hospitals, the federal health agency said that institutions could lose Medicare funding if they didn’t comply.
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The Unbearable Vagueness of Medical ‘Professionalism’
Since its inception, this murky term has straddled the dual role of disciplining and inspiring.
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Newyork
Will a $1 Billion Medical School Donation Help Make the Bronx Healthier?
Health experts praised a monumental gift to the Bronx’s sole medical school, but wondered if it would be enough to address deep-seated problems in one of New York’s least healthy places.
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$1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School
Dr. Ruth Gottesman, a longtime professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is making free tuition available to all students going forward.
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US
Pressure Builds on Pentagon to Explain Timeline of Austin’s Hospitalization
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has yet to disclose why he has been at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for the past week.
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What Happened to Kate Cox Is Tragic, and Completely Expected
Many people were shocked when the Texas Supreme Court intervened recently to stop Kate Cox from getting an abortion in the state — an abortion needed to protect her health and future fertility after her fetus was diagnosed with a severe fetal anomaly ...
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A Texas Case Shows That Abortion Ban Exemptions Are a Sham
This essay has been updated to reflect news developments. Soon after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, horror stories started emerging of women denied medically urgent abortions for pregnancies gone dangerously awry. In response ...
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World
How International Law Views Military Action at a Hospital
The Israeli military has seized the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa. Israel says it needed to capture the hospital, in Gaza City, to destroy a Hamas command center and underground facilities that it says are there. Hamas and doctors at Al ...
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