UO Experts Address Mental Health Crisis | Around the O – AroundtheO
Over the course of seventeen years as a school counselor in Eugene, Sara Matteri has supported students through just about every kind of challenge a kid can face. When she started...
Lifelong AIDS Alliance (Seattle) – HistoryLink.org
The Lifelong AIDS Alliance began in 2001 when two Seattle organizations fighting AIDS — the Chicken Soup Brigade and the Northwest AIDS Foundation — merged into one. As the number of...
Long Beach again expands monkeypox vaccine eligibility • Long Beach Post News – Long...
Effective today, the JYNNEOS vaccine is now available for:
people who self-attest to being the sexual partners of gay, bisexual or other men who have sex with men or transgender people who...
ICYMI: Leading Medical Organizations Call for Action to Counter Threats, Abusive Behavior Targeting Health...
WASHINGTON — As a wave of violent threats targeting medical professionals, children’s health care facilities, and parents and families continues across the country, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American Medical...
Transgender Adults Have Higher Rates Of Disability Than Their Cisgender Counterparts – healthaffairs.org
As the US population ages, the proportion of adults living with some sort of disability is projected to increase. Research has established that disability is not equally distributed in the population...
U.K. Says No To Extra Monkeypox Vaccines: Report – Forbes
Doctor with vial of vaccine for monkeypox disease.gettyThe U.K.’s health secretary has declined to order extra monkeypox vaccines against the advice of the government agency responsible for protecting public health, the...
College mental health supports reduce suicide risk 84% in LGBTQ students – LA School...
The Trevor Project
LGBTQ students whose college or university provides mental health services had 84% lower odds of attempting suicide in the past year than those who had no access, according to a...
Why We Will Never Control Medical Costs – Discovery Institute
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The purposes of medicine are expanding rapidly beyond treating actual illnesses/injuries and promoting wellness, to also facilitating life fulfillment and making personal dreams come true. Latest case...
New Supreme Court Term Opens On Heels Of Far-Reaching Abortion Ruling – Kaiser Health...
The conservative-majority court is back in session starting Monday. Environmental protections, election law, and gay rights are already on the justices' docket, and other health-related cases are expected....
Monday, October 3, 2022 – Kaiser Health News
From Kaiser Health News - Latest Stories: Kaiser Health News Original Stories Severe Sleep Apnea Diagnosis Panics Reporter Until He Finds a Simple,...
Vaccine, behavior changes drive Colorado monkeypox case decline – The Colorado Sun
After more than two years of turmoil and stress during the COVID pandemic, here’s a bit of good news for the state’s public health system: Cases of monkeypox have plummeted in...
Philly has never had an openly LGBTQ City Council member. That could change after...
Philadelphia is the largest U.S. city that has never elected an openly LGBTQ member to its City Council, and some local Democratic insiders are pushing the party to change that.“Philadelphia and...
Sparks fly in final 1st District House debate between Flood, Pansing Brooks – Nebraska...
LINCOLN — Both candidates in Sunday’s debate in Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District boiled down the decision in their race to a question of trust.
State Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks, a Democrat from...
Menapace Runs on Affordability, ‘Move Away From Car Culture,’ Mental Health in Race to...
Nick Menapace, a Democrat, said his decision to run for State Representative was a culmination of his 11 years as a middle school social studies teacher in Norwich, where...
GOP State lawmakers to hospital: Stop gender-affirming surgeries – Los Angeles Blade
By Sam Stockard | NASHVILLE – The House chairman of the Legislature’s Joint Government Operations Committee is unilaterally ordering state universities to suspend any policies making LGBTQ students a protected class amid...
Survey shows 72% of Utah residents back same-sex marriage – Washington Blade
A federal grand jury on Wednesday handed down an indictment of a Johns Hopkins anesthesiologist and her spouse, a doctor and major in the U.S. Army, with conspiracy and for the...
Health secretary Thérèse Coffey ignored advice to replenish monkeypox vaccine stock – PinkNews
The Terrence Higgins Trust said Thérèse Coffey's decision not to get more monkeypox vaccines "would be concerning and shortsighted". (Getty) Health secretary...
Out and Proud Yampa Valley Fund seeks to provide resources to LGBTQIA+ community –...
Left to right, the six founding members the Out and Proud Yampa Valley Fund, Terri Ubbing Weisenbach, Mari McGuiness, Kim Carlson, Jeanne Graham, Wendy Lynch and Deb Benak, pose...
Monkeypox eradication unlikely in the U.S. as virus could spread indefinitely, CDC says –...
The monkeypox virus is unlikely to be eliminated from the U.S. in the near future, according to a report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week.The CDC,...
POZ Awards 2022 / Best Celebrity Advocate – POZ – POZ
Welcome to the 7th Annual POZ Awards, spotlighting the best representatives of HIV in media and culture. The POZ editorial staff selects the nominees, but POZ readers choose the winners. Eligible...
California monkeypox cases fall, but health disparities remain – KCRA Sacramento
The number of monkeypox cases in California hit 5,000 this week, but overall the outbreak is trending downward, state health officials said on Friday.There are also “substantial health disparities” with...
Colorado monkeypox vaccinations drop as new cases decline – The Denver Post
Monkeypox vaccinations have slowed down significantly in Colorado, raising questions about how the state will reach high-risk populations that are less likely to seek out a shot.In Colorado, daily vaccinations peaked...
California monkeypox cases trend downward but there are ‘substantial health disparities,’ officials say –...
The number of monkeypox cases in California hit 5,000 this week, but overall the outbreak is trending downward, state health officials said on Friday.There are also “substantial health disparities” with...
Some officials now say monkeypox elimination unlikely in U.S. – Kennebec Journal and Morning...
NEW YORK — Some U.S. health officials are conceding that monkeypox is probably not going away anytime soon.
The disease’s spread is slowing but the virus is so widespread that elimination is...
Some officials now say monkeypox elimination unlikely in U.S. – Press Herald
NEW YORK — Some U.S. health officials are conceding that monkeypox is probably not going away anytime soon.
The disease’s spread is slowing but the virus is so widespread that elimination is...
Qmmunity: Revenge of the Homoscopes: Once more with feeling: It’s your Austin queer events...
Dame Dynamite of Horrorscopes (Photo by Tyler Whitman) In a sequel, the stakes are always higher. Think of Freddy's Revenge aka the gay Nightmare on Elm Street,...
Public Health Expands Monkeypox Vaccination Eligibility – Santa Monica Daily Press
Public Health has expanded eligibility to the monkeypox vaccine to closely align with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent expansion, which includes persons in select occupational groups whose jobs...
Support striking nurses at Howard Brown Health – Chicago Teachers Union
On September 28, 2022, the CTU’s House of Delegates voted to give active solidarity (see the statement of solidarity below) to nurses seeking their first union contract at Howard Brown Health,...
Ohio reports third U.S. death of person with monkeypox who had underlying health conditions...
A Northwell Health staff member holds the monkeypox vaccine, at Cherry Grove on Fire Island, New York, where monkey pox vaccines were administered on July 14, 2022.James Carbone | Newsday |...
Board declares September 2022 as Suicide Awareness Month – Multnomah County
September 30, 2022Content warning: the following story contains descriptions of suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling, contact the Multnomah County Behavioral Health Call Center at 503-988-4888. We are...
Judge postpones ruling on whether Casa Ruby should be dissolved – Washington Blade
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and two leaders of the White House monkeypox response team joined officials with the D.C. Department of Health on Thursday for...
Young Californians have high rates of anxiety, depression, poll says – Los Angeles Times
Young adults in California experience mental health challenges at alarming rates, with more than three-quarters reporting anxiety in the last year, more than half reporting depression, 31% experiencing suicidal thinking and...
Gay man who became a sex worker at 18 explains why criminalisation makes everything...
When Lyle Muns was 18-years-old, he decided to become a sex worker.
At the...