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Health System Skimps on Trans Health Care Training

By Mallory Locklear ● Health & Science ● June 15, 2016

A scarcity of physicians with special training in the needs of one trans man left him giving his doctor guidance on his own testosterone dosage. “There’s a huge online community,” he says, “and luckily I knew from YouTube and Facebook what was typical.”

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Forced Into Marriage, Syrian Teen Engulfed by Abuse and Trauma

By Fahrinisa Fatima Oswald ● Health & Science ● June 14, 2016

As her family was fleeing Syria, one mother thought an arranged marriage for her 11-year-old daughter was a chance at safety. Instead, it opened the door to devastation, according to a doctor who met them at her clinic and tells what she observed.

Mass Killing in Florida Gay Nightclub Stirs Outpour of Grief and Horror

By Corinna Barnard ● Crime & Law ● June 12, 2016

In the middle of LGBT Pride Month, the killing of 50 people and injury of many others at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando is sending shock and outrage through the country and the world.

Reproductive Health Urged to be at Heart of Humanitarian Crisis Response

By Juhie Bhatia ● Health & Science ● June 3, 2016

Politicians and activists at the recent World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul highlighted the dire consequences of overlooking reproductive and sexual health care in crises. A series of new commitments and projects were announced to address this growing need.

In India, Sex Education Struggles with Taboo Status

By Gagandeep Kaur ● Arts & Culture ● June 1, 2016

Sex is a taboo topic in India, but schools are nonetheless mandated to teach it. Parents with an eye on what their children might be doing on the Internet are also anxious to find ways of discussing the issue.

Call in the Doula: When Your Pregnant Students Need More

By Anna Limontas-Salisbury ● Health & Science ● May 31, 2016

The Brooklyn Library’s young adult literacy program includes workshops on stop-and-frisk policing, urban farming and HIV/AIDS. But we needed to offer more to young women with unexpected pregnancies and lots of concerns.

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Being Thin Isn’t All it’s Cracked Up to Be, Teen Says

By Emily Leon ● Health & Science ● May 18, 2016

Everywhere Emily Leon looks she sees people trying to lose weight. But as a teen with Graves’ disease, dieting is the furthest thing from her mind. This piece is part of Teen Voices’ Girl Fuse series, an initiative by and about teen girls with disabilities.

This Heart Doctor Wants to Clear Up Confusion About HRT

By Mallory Locklear ● Health & Science ● April 26, 2016

Dr. Howard Hodis just finished talking about this at a major annual conference on women’s health. He says HRT has definite cardiac benefits as long as it starts soon after menopause, before heart health begins to decline with age.

Congressional Briefing Puts U.S. Maternity on Exam Table

By Elizabeth Dawes Gay ● Health & Science ● April 15, 2016

“There’s been a huge collapse of the health system in rural areas,” one doctor said. “I still have patients that don’t have a car or live so far out that they don’t have access to a bus system.”

Why are researchers missing signs of autism in girls?

By Dana Roberson, Todd Zwillich & Por Alison Bowen ● Culture ● March 27, 2016

One in every 68 children born in the United States is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Boys are supposedly four times more likely to have the condition, but clinicians often miss or overlook symptoms in girls, who are frequently on the less disabling end of the spectrum.