Pentagon doctor claims prescribing transgender drugs to minors can cause psychotic illness to ‘melt away’

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I think that it’s more likely that when [transgender] treatments are optimized, these diagnoses start to melt away over time,’ a doctor treating adolescents at Travis Force Air Base said

FIRST ON FOX – Children taking anti-psychotic medication in the military health system for serious mental illness were later administered “gender-affirming pharmaceuticals,” according to Department of Defense health records, with one of its air base physicians claiming the gender drugs could “melt away” psychotic conditions such as a schizophrenia diagnosis.  

A study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine in 2021 entitled, “Mental Healthcare Utilization of Transgender Youth Before and After Affirming Treatment,” discussed internal DoD health records from 2010-2018. 

Read more at Fox News.

Feds award Penn $406,000 to study ‘racial/ethnic health disparities’ from COVID

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Federal agency behind grant has a goal of ‘advancing health equity’

The University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing has received $406,250 in federal funds to study how to ensure equal health outcomes among ethnic groups using data from the outbreak of COVID-19.

The project, “Achieving Health Equity During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned From Nurses and High Performing Hospitals,” will rely on surveys of over 22,000 nurses to develop “innovative models of care delivery…that are associated with equitable outcomes,” according to an abstract.

Read more at The College Fix.

Arkansas lawsuit seeks to end discrimination for scholarship based on racial discrimination

A judge set an aggressive schedule to review a possible immediate injunction

A lawsuit against the Arkansas Minority Health Commission seeks to end discrimination on scholarship decisions which currently exclude White and Arab American applicants. 

“Today Do No Harm is asking the court for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction to immediately stop the Arkansas Minority Health Commission from making scholarship decisions based on the race requirement that excludes white and Arab students,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Board Chair of Do No Harm told Fox News Digital.

Read more at Fox News.

EXCLUSIVE: Children’s Hospital Offers Consultations On Transgender Treatments To Kids Younger Than 10

Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, a children’s hospital affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University, offers consultations on transgender treatments to children younger than 10, the Daily Caller has learned.

Doernbecher’s Gender Clinic offers patients up to 18 years of age consultations with puberty specialists and experts on hormone therapy, as well as a “gender-affirming environment,” according to their website.

Read more at the Daily Caller.

‘Appalling’: Unearthed Documents Reveal How Hospital Pushes Medical Transitions On Children

  • Seattle Children’s Hospital offers education guides that encourage medical professionals to quickly offer cross-sex medical treatments such as menstrual suppression and puberty blockers to youth patients with gender identity issues.
  • The guides largely fail to mention mental health services, and indicate that they are optional and must be sought through outside institutions; the hospital’s gender clinic does not offer long-term mental health therapy. 
  • “The most damning aspect of these documents is the repeated assertion that the gender clinic does not provide mental health services,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, former associate dean for curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and current chair of Do No Harm, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The notion that these children, who are often depressed, anxious, and even autistic, are not provided with those services in a way that is closely linked with the activities of the gender clinic is appalling.”

Seattle Children’s Hospital encourages medical professionals to offer swift biomedical interventions as the default treatment for young patients with gender identity issues, even when parents are skeptical, and largely avoids recommending mental health services to gender dysphoric youth, according to documents published by the hospital.

The hospital, which recently attracted criticism for advertising transgender surgical procedures for minors, published several guides to instruct medical professionals on their treatment decisions regarding “gender affirming medical care” for youth. The guides promote puberty blockers and menstrual suppression drugs for young patients, do not list mental health screenings as a necessary step before medications are administered and instead indicate that mental health treatments are optional and must be sought externally.

Read more at the Daily Caller.

Top Swedish Doctors blow whistle on trans puberty-suppressing drugs affecting children’s bones: ‘Experimental’

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‘My son shouldn’t be this way at his age,’ a mother whose son developed osteopenia after taking puberty blockers, said

Swedish doctors at a top medical school released a systemic review of available medical literature on providing puberty blockers to children, and said its use for treating gender dysphoria should be considered “experimental.”

Doctors at the Karolinska Institute, ranked as a top 15 medical school in Europe, published an article in Acta Paediatrica on April 17, which was partly funded by an independent Swedish governmental agency tasked with assessing methods used in healthcare and making recommendations. The review analyzed thousands of studies, and focused on those without significant bias. 

Read more at Fox News.

‘Dangerous Trend’: Medical Schools Are Ditching Standardized Tests In The Name of ‘Diversity’

  • Medical schools are continuing to drop Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) requirements in favor of alternative routes available to prospective applicants, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
  • Dropping the MCAT in favor of holistic admission practices may negatively impact the medical profession by “eliminating” a “standard for schools to consider when admitting students who demonstrate the aptitude to be good doctors,” Laura Morgan, Do No Harm program manager, told the DCNF.
  • “It’s not adequate because it is subjective, as opposed to standardized tests which are objective metrics,” she explained.

    A developing medical school trend to ditch the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) requirement may not bode well for the future of the profession, medical watchdog group Do No Harm told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

    Approximately 40 medical schools across the country have dropped the MCAT, a multiple choice exam that determines an individual’s ability to problem solve, think critically, and understand concepts about medical study, as a requirement for some applying students, according to a list compiled by Inspira Advantage. Do No Harm alleged that dropping the requirement is another way schools aim to bolster diversity on campus but asserted that it is a “dangerous trend,” according to its analysis.

    Read more at the the Daily Caller.

    Indiana University’s ‘Implicit Bias’ Training Module for Hiring Faculty Under Scrutiny

    The Indiana University Office of Academic Affairs is under scrutiny for its “implicit bias” training module about hiring practices at the university.

    Do No Harm (DNH), an organization that spotlights discriminatory practices in academic and medical institutions, highlighted a training module used at the university for faculty search committees, encouraging committee members to consider ideological concepts such as their own “implicit bias” and “whiteness” instead of the applicant’s experience.

    Read more at The Epoch Times.

    UT Southwestern teaches med students that ‘gender is independent of physical structure, chromosomes, or genes’

    Gender is a ‘psychological, social, and cultural construct, including self-identification,’ the university teaches

    Documents obtained by Fox News Digital show that University of Texas Southwestern medical students are being taught that gender is independent of physical structure.

    Fox News Digital obtained the documents via a FOIA request from Do No Harm, a national association of medical professionals that combats “woke” activism in the healthcare system.

    Read more at Fox News.

    University of Missouri medical school had students watch scientifically suspect TED Talks

    FOIA records show orientation programming conflated sex and gender identity, “professional development” training claimed misgendering causes psychological harm. Both included “unconscious bias” book.

    The University of Missouri School of Medicine has trained employees and incoming students to see medicine through the lens of trendy ideologies on race and gender, according to materials shared exclusively with Just the News, and it’s not clear the programs were scientifically valid.

    Advocacy group Do No Harm, which targets wokeness in medicine, provided the only two documents Mizzou Med turned over in response to Freedom of Information Act requests spanning the 2020-2022 academic years. Both are from 2020.

    Read more at Just the News.

    EXCLUSIVE: Medical Group Backs State AG’s Emergency Order on Transgender Interventions Amid Legal Threat

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued an emergency regulation Thursday restricting the use of experimental transgender interventions on minors. 

    An organization of doctors, nurses, and health care professionals supported Bailey’s order, despite pro-transgender activist groups condemning it as based on “debunked claims” that ignore “medical evidence” and threatening a lawsuit to block it.

    Read more at The Daily Signal.

    University of Utah Medical School pays out big bucks for woke speakers

    A medical school spent $18,000 in a week on lecturers to spout “pure political idealogy” during a “diversity” week, critics charged.

    One speaker alone, Canadian doctor and actor Evan Adams, got $3,000 to wax on about indigenous health issues in a virtual seminar for the November event at the University of Utah Medical School, which costs $35,000 a year.

    Read more at the New York Post.

    Lawsuit Challenges Arkansas Scholarship Program’s Racial Exclusion as Violation of Fourteenth Amendment

    Do No Harm (DNH), an organization that spotlights discriminatory practices in medical institutions, has filed a lawsuit (pdf) against the executive director of a division of the Arkansas Department of Health, alleging its implementation of a scholarship program discriminates against students based on skin color.

    The suit alleges that Executive Director of the Arkansas Minority Health Commission (AMHC) Kenya Eddings has violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by employing a scholarship plan that denies anyone who is not African American, Hispanic, Native American, Asian American, or Marshallese, while leaving out anyone who is white and Arab American.

    Read more at The Epoch Times.

    NIH Guide Warns Against describing pronouns as ‘chosen,’ pushes slew of 40 different options

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    According to the NIH document, intentionally using an incorrect pronoun could be ‘a violation of one’s civil rights’

    An office within the National Institutes of Health published a guideline that outlines how professionals should use gendered pronouns to “affirm gender identity” for themselves and colleagues, warning that intentionally using the wrong pronouns is “equivalent to harassment.”

    Fox News Digital reviewed the NIH Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office’s “Gender Pronouns & Their Use in Workplace Communications” guide, which provides more than 40 different pronoun examples, while also providing examples on how to avoid making pronoun “mistakes” in the workplace. 

    Read more at Fox News.

    Biden HHS Transgender Official Rachel Levine Applauds in Trans-Affirming Training in Medical Schools

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    An LGBTQ activist group’s video series features Biden’s top Health and Human Services (HHS) official Rachel [Richard] Levine, M.D. celebrating an influx of LGBTQ individuals into the medical field and the idea that gender ideology is now expanding in medical school training.

    In a video from the series called “Authentic Voices of Pride,” produced by LGBTQ Nation, Levine, the assistant secretary for health at HHS, says it is important for healthcare providers to offer “culturally competent care,” a narrative of the Biden administration that uses the Marxist strategy of labeling a campaign that intends to be divisive with a seemingly innocuous name to make it easy to condemn those who disagree with it.

    Read more at The Star News Network.

    New York-based medical school implementing ‘anti-bias’ curriculum, documents show

    EXCLUSIVE — The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City has taken steps to overhaul its curriculum and approach to teaching to incorporate extensive anti-racism and diversity, equity, and inclusion principles.

    According to internal documents obtained by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm and shared with the Washington Examiner, the medical school has resorted to evaluating teachers for their contributions to DEI and is advertising job postings that require applicants to share their commitment to DEI principles.

    Read more at the Washington Examiner.

    ‘Top Doctor’ search engine encourages doctor selection by race

    Castle Connolly, the organization known for publishing its “Top Doctor” list, now publishes a “Top Black Doctor” list so patients can search for specialists in their area by race.

    The separate publication comes as part of Castle Connolly’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative. To compile the list, the company asked its doctors to “share information about their race/ethnicity, gender and sexual identity.”

    Read more at the Washington Examiner.