WebMD Announces 2022 Health Heroes: A physician, veteran, a neuroscientist, and three college students...
NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WebMD today announced the winners of the 2022 WebMD Health Heroes Awards, which this year honor everyday heroes who are confronting the nation's mental...
LGBTQIA Youth: Mental Health Support Through Inclusive Care – ADDitude
LGBTQIA+ youth face an elevated risk for experiencing serious mental health issues.1 Depression and anxiety impact more than half of all youth who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex,...
LGBTQ+ health services offered at Exeter practice by Dr. Robert Kelly – Seacoastonline.com
EXETER — Members of the LGBTQ+ community have specific health care concerns and often find it difficult to access a provider to meet their needs on the Seacoast. Many patients, particularly teenagers and their...
U.S. senators criticize federal health officials for lagging monkeypox response – Ohio Capital Journal
WASHINGTON — Congress held its first hearing on monkeypox Wednesday, with lawmakers rebuking federal public health officials for their slow response to the outbreak, even though the hearing came four months...
CHP recommends gay men to get monkeypox vaccine first – Hong Kong Standard
Two scientific committees under the Centre for Health Protection have said men who have sex with men should be among those prioritized for the monkeypox vaccine...
OPINION: Supporting all MI students means supporting gay and trans students too – Bridge...
It is for these reasons, among others, that for over two decades, the Michigan Department of Education has provided local school district-requested professional development to build the capacity of educators to...
LA County health care worker contracts monkeypox after exposure at job — 1st such...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The nation's first case of a health care worker contracting monkeypox after being exposed on the job was reported in Los Angeles County earlier this week."We have...
4 more likely monkeypox cases reported in Riverside County on Thursday; total at 252...
Riverside County Public Health reported an additional four confirmed or probable monkeypox cases on Thursday.The cities in Riverside County with the most cases are Palm Springs (121), Cathedral City (34), Riverside (19), Desert...
Woman charged with bomb threat against children’s hospital – The Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — Federal authorities on Thursday arrested a woman accused of calling in a fake bomb threat at Boston Children’s Hospital amid a barrage of harassment and threats of violence...
How One Bi Designer Is Using Fashion Week to Talk About Mental Health –...
September is all about fashion, fashion, fashion. There’s a fashion week in New York, a fashion week in London, a fashion week in Milan, and a fashion week in Paris, each...
Cleveland schedules 4 monkeypox vaccine clinics; 237 cases statewide, 68 in Cleveland – cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio — In an effort to quell the city’s rising case numbers of monkeypox, the Cleveland Department of Public Health is offering free and anonymous vaccination clinics to at-risk individuals.To...
CDC opening applications for Monkeypox Vaccine Equity Pilot Program | CDC Online Newsroom –...
Today, local, state, and territorial health departments, as well as tribal governments and local non-governmental organizations, can partner together and begin submitting requests to access monkeypox vaccine through the recently announced...
CDC opening applications for Monkeypox Vaccine Equity Pilot Program | CDC Online Newsroom |...
Today, local, state, and territorial health departments, as well as tribal governments and local non-governmental organizations, can partner together and begin submitting requests to access monkeypox vaccine through the recently announced...
U.S. senators criticize federal health officials for lagging monkeypox response | The Pulse –...
Digitally-colorized image of monkeypox virus particles — CDC/Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regnery, Hannah Bullock
NC’s Richard Burr claims national response has been a “failure”
WASHINGTON — Congress held its first hearing on monkeypox...
Royal College of Surgeons is accused of ‘homophobia’ for quiz question – Daily Mail
The Royal College of Surgeons was accused of homophobia after asking trainees a question that critics say suggested HIV was a 'gay disease'. Medics and sexual health charities have blasted the college...
RI’s largest insurer certifies more ‘Safe Zones’ for LGBTQ health care – The Providence...
PROVIDENCE — Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island has added 21 more health care practices and centers to its growing list of LGBTQ Safe Zones, “certifying that the...
‘I felt judged’: LGBTQ+ Americans report significantly more medical discrimination – The 19th*
Published 2022-09-15 04:00 4:00 September 15, 2022 am
When LGBTQ+ people go to the doctor, they are more likely to be refused...
A Clinicians’ Guide to Serving and Protecting LGBTQIA+ Youth – ADDitude
LGBTQIA+ youth face an elevated risk for experiencing serious mental health issues.1 Depression and anxiety impact more than half of all youth who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex,...
Gay men are two times more likely to have inflammatory bowel disease, according to...
Study will allow researchers to develop personalized precision medicine for treatment of IBD in this underrepresented minority patient population Gay men are more than twice as likely to develop inflammatory bowel...
Gay men are two times more likely to have inflammatory bowel … – The...
Study will allow researchers to develop personalized precision medicine for treatment of IBD in this underrepresented minority patient population Gay men are more than twice as likely to develop inflammatory bowel...
Concern over two cases of monkeypox-related neurological complications in the U.S. – News-Medical.Net
Monkeypox virus (MPXV) is an orthopoxvirus that belongs to the Poxviridae family. The recent multinational outbreak of monkeypox has spread to 96 non-endemic countries. Infections are mostly reported among bisexual, gay, and other...
Monkeypox vaccination clinic this Saturday, eligibility for the vaccine expanded – Southern Nevada Health...
LAS VEGAS – The Southern Nevada Health District is holding a monkeypox vaccination clinic this Saturday. The Health District has expanded eligibility to additional individuals who are at risk for exposure....
DOJ sues on behalf of gay tenant harassed by property manager – Los Angeles...
WASHINGTON – Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a brief order granted an emergency request made by Yeshiva University, a private modern Orthodox Jewish research university in New York...
U.S. senators criticize federal health officials for lagging monkeypox response – Virginia Mercury
WASHINGTON — Congress held its first hearing on monkeypox Wednesday, with lawmakers rebuking federal public health officials for their slow response to the outbreak, even though the hearing came four months...
Monkeypox vaccines, including second doses, available at upcoming New Orleans vaccination events | La...
The Louisiana Department of Health, in partnership with the New Orleans Health Department, will offer monkeypox vaccines, including second doses, at events starting next week. Anyone who received the first of...
Monkeypox vaccines available at LDH parish health units in Northshore area | La Dept....
The Louisiana Department of Health Office of Public Health Region 9 (Northshore) has monkeypox vaccines available at its parish health units (PHUs). As of September 14, Louisiana has identified 217 cases of...
Advocates worry for safety, well-being of Black, LGBT students this school year – The...
Story at a glance Concerns for the well-being of minority and LGBT youth are mounting this school year in light of recent legislation that limits how topics including race, gender...
Senators wary of ticking clock on gay marriage vote – Axios
Senators working to garner support for a bill to codify the right to marriage equality are openly raising concerns that the process for building Republican backing is taking longer than expected.Why...
Anti-LGBTQ+ conversion therapy still legal in South Dakota – Argus Leader
Boots Among Trees and Cody Ingle, as openly LGBTQ+ Sioux Falls residents, have something in common: They were both subjected to conversion therapy at a young age.Conversion therapy is a pseudoscientific...
Resources for 2022 National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day – AIDS.gov blog
Content From: HIV.gov•Published: September 14, 2022•2 min readTopicsAwareness Days<p>Awareness Days</p>Gay & Bisexual MenGay & Bisexual MenGay Men's Awareness DayNational Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness DayGay, bisexual, and other men who have...
Opinion: Ensuring monkeypox does not become the next AIDS – CTPost
Dr. Gary BlickSep. 14, 2022Updated: Sep. 15, 2022 9:28 a.m. Vials of single doses of the vaccine for monkeypox are seen at a vaccinations site in New York.Associated...
Let’s talk about sex: tailoring prostate-cancer care for LGBT+ people – Nature.com
Workers with the UK National Health Service take part in the London Pride Parade in 2019.Credit: Ben Gingell/Alamy
In 2007, 55-year-old Australian sociologist...
Southern States’ Lackluster Monkeypox Efforts Leave LGBTQ+ Groups Going It Alone – Kaiser Health...
Dan DeChellis started looking for a monkeypox vaccine around July Fourth but was unable to find a place that offered one in Orlando, Florida, where he lives. After...
Meaningful conversation: Professor’s research explores parent-gay son communications around sexual identity – today.wayne.edu
Experiences of others help shape recommendations for parents, children For many youth and young gay males, talking with their parents or parental figures about sex...