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In the Folds of a Major Gun Control Law, Mental Health Hope for California Youth

Can California make the most of a rare health care win?

Capital & Main

North Dakota governor signs law criminalising trans health care for minors

North Dakota’s Republican Gov. Doug Burgum has signed a veto-proof bill into law that restricts transgender health care and criminalizes providers who give gender-affirming care to people under 18

The Independent UK

North Dakota governor signs law limiting trans health care

Gender-affirming care for minors has been available in the U.S. for more than a decade and is endorsed by major medical associations, but it has come under attack in many conservative legislatures.

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Minnesota to join at least 4 other states in protecting transgender care this year

In 2023, a record number of states have passed rules or legislation to eliminate youth gender-affirming care, but a record number of states have also moved to protect care for trans youth and adults.

WEKU

Gov. Laura Kelly vetoes 4 GOP bills aimed at regulating the lives of transgender Kansans

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed four bills Thursday that would have regulated the lives of transgender Kansans, dictating what spaces they are welcome in and the health care they can access.

Tribune News Service

Sudan’s growing conflict sparks race to evacuate foreigners

Japan, Germany and other nations are struggling to evacuate their citizens from Sudan amid fighting between the army and a paramilitary group, while water, health care and other services are becoming increasingly hard to access.

Tribune News Service

North Dakota governor signs law limiting trans health care

North Dakota’s Republican Gov. Doug Burgum has signed a veto-proof bill into law that restricts transgender health care and criminalizes providers who give gender-affirming care to people under 18

The Independent UK

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Unicef says 67 million children missed routine vaccinations because of Covid

The Unitied Nations children's agency has said that some 67 million children missed some or all common vaccines globally between 2019 and 2021, because of lockdowns and health care disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Radio France Internationale

Instacart CEO Fidji Simo launches her health care side hustle

While awaiting Instacart's IPO, Simo raised $35 million—and philanthropic funding from Sequoia’s Michael Moritz—for her Metrodora Institute

Fortune

Ageism, stigma hinders response to senior alcohol use disorder - Roll Call

Older adults dying of alcohol-related deaths is a problem that has been ignored by policymakers and health care providers, experts say.

Roll Call

Medicare has been under pressure for years. So is it broken and can it be fixed?

These experts say Medicare is at breaking point and it's time for major reform.

ABC News

Lawmakers ‘scratching their heads’ at lack of answers on health breach

House lawmakers on Wednesday demanded accountability for a health care data breach affecting lawmakers and staff.

Roll Call

Maradona's medical team on trial in former great's death

An Argentine court says eight health care professionals will stand trial in the death of soccer great Diego Maradona in 2020

The Independent UK

What is a 'buffer zone' and what could a ban on anti-abortion protests look like?

Our campaign Give Us Space is backing Scottish Greens MSP Gillian Mackay’s members' bill to bring in protections for women accessing health care.

The National (Scotland)

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Inquiry into Canberra abortion access scathing of Catholic-run hospital's limited reproductive healthcare, delivers 18 recommendations

An inquiry into Canberra abortion access recommends the ACT government crack down on Calvary Public Hospital's refusal to offer full suite of reproductive healthcare. Hospital refutes inquiry's findings.

Tribune News Service

Minnesota startup creates disposable hijab for Muslim health care workers, patients

ST. PAUL, Minnesota — After spending months working in clinics and hospitals across the U.S. at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Yasmin Samatar and Firaoli Adam had grown tired of having to constantly change their hijabs throughout the day.

Daily Record

Questions over Falkirk health care underspend as GPs under 'extreme pressure'

Much of the money has been pledged to improve community services but remains unspent

WEKU

'I am hearing anti-aircraft fire,' says a doctor in Sudan as he depicts medical crisis

We spoke to Dr. Ghazali Babiker, country director for Médecins Sans Frontières in Sudan, who is in Khartoum. He offered a grim assessment of the impact of fighting on the ability to give health care.

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Coroner recommends investigation, disclosure at conclusion of William Edmunds inquest

A New South Wales Coroner has recommended that the Health Care Complaints Commissioner investigate the care and treatment a doctor provided to an Oaklands man who died at Albury Base Hospital in 2019.

The Denver Post

Federal judge blocks Colorado’s ban on abortion reversal from applying to Catholic clinic that sued over law

A federal judge over the weekend temporarily blocked a new Colorado law that bans abortion-reversal treatment from being enforced against a Catholic health care clinic that immediately sued over the new law.

Chicago Tribune

Doctors grapple with their ‘unbelievable’ experiences during mission to Turkey and Syria in wake of earthquakes

CHICAGO — Just hours after he learned about the devastating Feb. 6 earthquake in Turkey and Syria, Tarek Kabbany was on social media around 3 a.m. and saw a picture of his younger sister’s apartment building in southern Turkey destroyed.

Tribune News Service

UK says offer to health care staff final as nurses plan strikes

The U.K. government said its latest pay offer to striking health care workers is final with one of the biggest nurses’ unions warning that walkouts could continue through Christmas without a better deal.

Salon

The path to universal health care

Universal health care is the norm in almost every other wealthy country. What's stopping us from doing it here?

The Conversation

An emergency in the making: Ending pandemic prenatal health coverage for uninsured people is both costly and dangerous

On March 31, 2023 the Ford government in Ontario ended the expanded health-care funding it put in place when the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020.

Tribune News Service

What’s on Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s desk after the 2023 General Assembly session?

BALTIMORE — Maryland Democrats had an ambitious agenda at the start of the first session of a Gov. Wes Moore’s brand-new term.

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