Family Rejection a Health Risk for Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Youth
New America Media, News Report, Viji Sundaram, Posted: Dec 29, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO–Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth whose families have rejected them because of their sexual orientation are at far greater risk for mental and physical health problems than those who come from families who have accepted them, according to a recent study.
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LAS VEGAS—A 32-year-old Henderson man who shot and injured three Las Vegas police officers says he shot the officers in self defense because he thought they were home invaders and didn’t identify themselves as police.
Emmanuel Dozier was due in court Tuesday for an initial appearance on attempted murder charges. He was being held without bail.
Dozier told Fox 5 News in Las Vegas that he was afraid of a home robbery and was just trying to Read the rest of this entry »
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WASHINGTON (AP) — John McCain’s health plan won’t lower the ranks of the uninsured. Barack Obama’s fails to curb the soaring cost of health care, meaning initial gains in helping more people buy health insurance would eventually be undermined.
That’s the assessment of health care economists who critiqued the plans of the two presidential candidates.
The critiques, published in the journal Health Affairs on Tuesday, reflect fundamental disagreements Read the rest of this entry »
GAZA CITY, 30 December 2008 (IRIN) – Gaza’s main hospital, Al-Shifa, is struggling to cope with the influx of people injured in the Israeli air strikes which started on 27 December, according to medical sources.
Staff and patients are also fearful Israel might target it, as the leaders of Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls the enclave, have held press conferences there.
The hospital has already moved some medical facilities below Read the rest of this entry »
The less common form of MS — primary progressive — doesn’t manifest itself with acute attacks, although patients still exhibit neurodegeneration, leading to fatigue, pain, problems with walking and balance, dizziness and bladder and bowel dysfunction.
Currently approved drugs primarily work by reducing the activity of lymphocytes or reducing their ability to travel from the blood into the nervous system. Some of the new ones do that too — while Read the rest of this entry »
Fitness freaks and shopaholics make for best friends and what happens when both these virtues crop up in the same pretty head…its none other than dusky beauty Tanushree Dutta, who has been keeping really fit and going on a shopping rampage.
She has not only been going on a spree shopping for smaller size clothes, but also loads of accessories to go with it.
She comments, “Shopping is such a stress buster and I can go on shopping till I drop. Read the rest of this entry »
Current guidance to use menopausal hormone therapy as briefly as possible should be interpreted to mean no more than two years because that’s when breast-cancer risk rises, two new reports suggest.
Among women taking the hormones estrogen and progestin, the chance of breast cancer didn’t increase during the first two years – which Wyeth Pharmaceuticals says is now the average length of therapy using its popular hormone brands.
While the women’s Read the rest of this entry »
The transition team for President-elect Barack Obama, hoping to make a swift break in Bush administration policies at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, is moving toward naming new heads to two of the most important federal health agencies.
Julie Gerberding will step down as CDC director when Mr. Obama is sworn in next week, ending a controversial tenure of more than six years. She will be replaced Read the rest of this entry »
By Mary Forney, Staff Writer
Taking on a surprising challenge by an anonymous donor enabled St. Matthias High School to open a new fitness center on Nov. 17.
Last March, when creating a wish list for the schools upgrade, Principal Margaret Meland asked for a renovated fitness facility to accommodate the female students. All that the school had was an old weight room designed for boys.
We needed to redo the roof, the floor, the walls, Read the rest of this entry »