Nervous breakdown: Signs, symptoms, and treatment:
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Doctors Can Dismiss Women’s Health Concerns. Here’s How To Take Back Some Control. | HuffPost Life
Doctors Can Dismiss Women’s Health Concerns. Here’s How To Take Back Some Control. | HuffPost Life:
Evidence shows women are often deemed “overly dramatic” and dismissed by medical professionals, which has deadly consequences.
‘Wake-up call’ as UK medics push one in five trans people to conversion therapy | Reuters
‘Wake-up call’ as UK medics push one in five trans people to conversion therapy | Reuters:
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – One in 20 British LGBT+ people have been pressured to undergo conversion therapy while getting healthcare, rising to one in five among transgender people, a charity said on Thursday.
The World Health Organization might have just made things worse for intersex people · PinkNews
The World Health Organisation might have just made things worse for intersex people · PinkNews:
The World Health Organization has sparked concern from intersex rights activists by maintaining existing guidelines on intersex people and even adding a new diagnosis for intersex children.
HHS defends withholding comments critical of abortion, transgender policy – Politico
“There has been a voluminous response to the [request for information], and the center’s team is working through a review of the submissions,” Shannon Royce, who leads the agency’s Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships and is overseeing the proposal, said in a statement on Monday night.”
UK’s First Transgender Mental Health Helpline Rolled Out Nationwide – NBC News
UK’s First Transgender Mental Health Helpline Rolled Out Nationwide – NBC News:
“The UK’s first mental health helpline offering emotional support and information to people who identify as transgender, non-binary or gender-fluid has been rolled out nationwide, with project leaders confident the pioneering scheme will become a permanent fixture as of early 2018.”
Transgender Health AMA Series: I’m Joshua Safer, Medical Director at the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Boston University Medical Center, here to talk about the science behind transgender medicine, AMA! : science
“I’m Joshua Safer and I serve as the Medical Director of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Boston Medical Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at the BU School of Medicine. I am a member of the Endocrine Society task force that is revising guidelines for the medical care of transgender patients, the Global Education Initiative committee for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the Standards of Care revision committee for WPATH, and I am a scientific co-chair for WPATH’s international meeting. My research focus has been to demonstrate health and quality of life benefits accruing from increased access to care for transgender patients and I have been developing novel transgender medicine curricular content at the BU School of Medicine.”
(Via. Reddit)
