Father of transgender daughter tells Alabama lawmakers treatment ban is misguided
Updated Feb 10, 2021;
Posted Feb 10, 2021
David Fuller, a sergeant with the Gadsden Police Department, tells the Alabama House Judiciary Committee about his experiences as a single father with a transgender daughter.
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Alabama lawmakers today heard from supporters and opponents of a bill that would make it a felony to prescribe puberty-blocking drugs or hormones as transgender therapies for minors with gender dysphoria.
They heard from doctors on both sides of the debate and from an 80-year-old who said he came to regret sex reassignment surgery and helps others with the same regrets.
The legislative fight to pass discriminatory anti-transgender legislation is ramping up in state houses across the country, with a significant number of bills expected to have hearings or votes this…
Panel recommends steps by Oregon lawmakers to rein in rising health care costs
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) A committee led by policy experts, citizens and stakeholders took steps Tuesday that they say will help put Oregon on a path to keep health care costs in check.
The Implementation Committee for Oregon’s Sustainable Health Care Cost Growth Target Program adopted recommendations to the Legislature to inform actionable strategies to make it easier to understand what is driving up costs and how to address this problem.
The Committee envisions a process to ensure that health care costs are contained in the public and private sector with accountability mechanisms for health care entities. Oregon is only the second state in the nation to pass health care cost growth target legislation and the fourth to adopt such a program.
She s the face of NC s fight against COVID-19. Meet Dr. Mandy Cohen, Tar Heel of the Year
Dec. 23
The News & Observer recognizes North Carolina residents who have made significant contributions in the last year and beyond. These people have made a difference in our region, state and elsewhere. Here are our stories.
Once, many years ago, a promising third-year medical resident did not know how to treat one of her patients. They were both young women, the patient and the resident, when their lives intersected at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
For weeks, the patient had been losing weight and also her hair, troubling symptoms for someone in her early 20s. The resident, training to become a doctor of internal medicine, ordered test after test that revealed no answers. One day a technician approached the resident with the patient s vitals, and some advice: Maybe you should ask the patient if she d been eating regularly.
More telehealth, broadband, and Medicaid expansion discussions in the next legislative session
Published December 10, 2020
Rep. Gale Adcock
People like medical appointments by video, a practice expanded in the coronavirus pandemic when government and private insurers agreed to pay medical providers the same as if they were seeing patients in their offices.
The popularity of telemedicine will likely continue after the fear of spreading the coronavirus infection in medical offices passes, said legislators and lobbyists at a Wednesday afternoon online forum hosted by The Insider. The NC Healthcare Association sponsored it.
“Patients have come to expect to be able to come get certain services through telehealth,” said Rep. Gale Adcock, a Cary Democrat and member of the House Health Committee. But telehealth further exposes inequities in broadband availability, she said.