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Polio may finally be defeated in the next 5 years. Will the world recognize what an extraordinary achievement that is?

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US health care policy will remain fractured until lawmakers address the core question of who is responsible for health care costs.

The Trump administration on Thursday announced new measures to target hospitals and doctors providing care to trans youth. Under the new rules unveiled by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz, who leads Medicaid and Medicare, the government would strip federal funding for any hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care. The new rules were announced a day after the House of Representatives narrowly approved a bill that aims to criminalize providing gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18 and subject providers to hefty fines and prison time. “This is a drastic departure from any concern about science, concern about parents and their rights,” says Chase Strangio, co-director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. “It is putting hospitals in an impossible situation, and just another example of this administration undermining and threatening all of our health and welfare.” We also speak with Dr. Jeffrey Birnbaum, a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist who works with transgender youth in New York City. He says the families he works with are “terrified right now,” but vows to continue his work. “I refuse to stop providing this care, knowing that I could potentially face 10 years in prison and a felony charge. I’m willing to go down that route, if necessary.”

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Some conservatives have called for the FDA commissioner to be fired over a delayed review. Others aren’t taking it that far.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced several different plans to further restrict gender affirming care to people under 18 across the country on Thursday. If finalized, these actions could effectively make it impossible for transgender minors to receive most affirming health care at hospitals.   These proposals are not legally binding. The government is […]

Federal officials are questioning the safety of the vaccine series children receive. Here’s the story of how the childhood vaccine schedule came about.