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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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About half of all U.S. births are covered by Medicaid, which means decisions about delivery practices under this part of the Affordable Care Act could ripple far and wide. The American College of Nurse Midwives is assessing all 277 marketplace plans.
While 96 percent of mothers in Syria had medical assistance when giving birth before the conflict, medical services for women have become almost nonexistent, finds a recent report from Save the Children. C-sections are riskier than ever and more than twice as common now.
The new wage and overtime protections don’t take effect for another year but the government has begun sorting out what it means, to whom. Staffing agencies are most affected but private employers should also keep records.
The women’s health movement of the 1960s and 1970s transformed the doctor-patient relationship and yielded the novel concept that women can take control of their own health, says Laurie Edwards in this excerpt from “In the Kingdom of the Sick.”
As the Affordable Care Act gets close, younger Americans are being courted by both sides of the debate. Precarious finances–rather than opposition to paying for older people’s health care–could stop many from signing up.
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Opponents of minimum-staffing bills say they are too rigid, but supporters say more nurses will improve hospital outcomes as the Affordable Care Act boosts patient admissions and aims to lower rates of infection.
Global efforts to improve maternal health are ready for fine tuning when it comes to the Middle East and North Africa. This will be the aim of researchers gathering ahead of this month’s global conference on women’s health in Kuala Lumpur.
Tabitha Waugh, a registered nurse in a West Virginia hospital, can’t complain about the pay. But it’s tough finding time with her kids and the work takes a toll, physically and mentally. “I just don’t want to do direct patient care forever,” she said.
As Congress resumes today, advocates for older women are girding for another round of health care battles. One group has re-released its 2011 “Granny Off the Cliff” video showing the GOP budget leader pushing an older woman over the edge of survival.