Health Care — State Lawmakers Turn Focus To Care For Trans Adults

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Today on Health, we look at upcoming legislation in state legislatures that could affect transgender adults' access to treatment.

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Healthcare bans on trans youth now target adults

Lawmakers in at least three states have introduced laws this year to limit access to gender-affirming health care for those under 26, a move that escalated last year after a nationwide debate over whether minors should have access to certain drugs and prescription procedures. .

Bills introduced this year in Oklahoma, South Carolina and Virginia aim to ban patients under the age of 21 from prescribing or receiving treatments such as puberty blockers, hormones and birth control surgeries, an increasingly intense fight against transgender health.
Another Oklahoma bill introduced this month would bar adults over 25 from receiving gender-affirming care in one of the most extreme and restrictive bans ever enacted.

The state's proposed "Millstone" act, named after a Bible verse that punishes adults who harm children, would also prevent Oklahoma's Medicaid program from providing coverage for "bridging procedures" to those under 26.

"I don't think it's ever been about the kids," said Erin Reed, an independent legal scholar, referring to efforts over the past two years to ban state and federal gender recognition.

"These adult bans show he didn't do it," Reed said. "We are talking about the complete prohibition of surveillance. This is about bringing transsexuals back to the cabinet."

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Pence: Candidates must define positions on abortion

Former Vice President Mike Pence has argued that his party should take an anti-abortion stance that put Democrats on the defensive following a Supreme Court ruling last summer that deviated from former President Trump's interpretation of the issue.

"What I saw in the last election was that men and women who were very vocal about the sanctity of life did pretty well," Pence told The Wednesday Hill in an exclusive interview.

"I think that now it is up to the men and women of our party not to apologize for the sanctity of human life, to adhere to the principle of the inalienable right to life, and to express compassion for women suffering from pregnancy crisis.

Former Vice President, Supreme Court Justice Roe v. Wade was suspended after the decision.

Abortion issue: His comments on The Hill underscored the GOP's debate over how to deal with abortion going forward after some party members said it cost them a chance to win the race in November's midterm elections.

Trump wrote in Social Truth last week that he was not responsible for the party's disastrous midterm shutdown, which resulted in Republicans narrowly capturing the House and losing seats in the Senate.

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PFIZER HAS NO ASSOCIATION WITH BIVALUE ENHANCEMENT ENCOUNTER RISK: CDC, FDA

After analyzing immunization surveillance data, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said they found no evidence of an increased risk of ischemic stroke in people over 65 years of age who received bivalent drugs. They got a boost from Pfizer.

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After Pfizer's updated bivalent booster dose for COVID-19 became available, the CDC said a link to the vaccine's safety data prompted further investigation to see if the vaccine poses safety concerns for people over 65.

"The VSD Signal Rapid Response Study showed that people over 65 years of age who received the Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent COVID-19 vaccine were more likely to have an ischemic stroke 21 days after vaccination than 22 to 44 days after vaccination," the CDC said.
Ischemic stroke, more common than hemorrhagic stroke, occurs when a blood clot blocks a blood vessel in the brain, cutting off blood flow and causing brain cells to die. If a stroke is not treated quickly, the consequences can be debilitating.

According to the CDC, studies using databases from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Centers for Veterans Affairs have shown little or no increased risk of ischemic stroke. The adverse vaccine event reporting system administered by the CDC and FDA also did not show an increase in reports of ischemic stroke after a bivalent booster dose.

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SOIL CANCER IS CAUSED BY THE BLESSED CALIPHS. WOMEN: LEARN

More California women age 65 and older are being diagnosed with and dying from advanced cervical cancer, according to a new study by researchers at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Data from more than 12,000 patients diagnosed with the disease between 2009 and 2018 showed that nearly one in five were at least 65 years old, and 71% of older women had advanced disease compared to 48% of women under 65.
Older women also have lower five-year survival rates than younger women, ranging from 23.2% to 36.8%. For those younger than 65 years, the relative 5-year survival rate was 41.5% to 51.5%.

Despite documented disparities, CDC guidelines recommend that most women stop cervical cancer screening before age 65, leaving this age group vulnerable, the researchers said.

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Biden officials provided health insurance

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Friday that health coverage in 2021 is essential for a broad population, two days before the ObamaCare application deadline.

The report, released by the Office of the HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, found that the uninsured rate of people under 65 fell from 11.1% in 2019 to 10.5% in 2021, with larger increases in demographics. was done. the past Higher rates of uninsured individuals.

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Non-English speaking adults aged 19-49, Latinos, and Native Americans/Alaska Natives had coverage of 1% or more.
The report found that health insurance benefits are highest among people living in households with incomes between 100% and 250% of the federal poverty line.
Nationwide, Maine saw the largest drop in the uninsured rate between 2019 and 2021, increasing coverage by 3.2%. During that time, Alabama saw the largest increase in the number of uninsured individuals, increasing the rate by 0.4%.

According to an HHS announcement earlier this week, nearly 16 million people have so far chosen a health plan through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, a 13% increase from a year ago.

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Abortion bans do not penalize pregnant women. This may change (News 19)
More men with prostate cancer as PSA screening declines (NBC News)
FDA no longer requires all drugs to be tested on animals before being tested on humans (NPR)

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