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IU professor studies LGBT caregivers of dementia patients with $262,000 in NIH funds
Professor will ‘co-design and test a culturally relevant intervention to meet these unique needs’ of LGBT caregivers The “unique needs of sexual and gender minorities” who care for individuals with…
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Trump Appointee Saves Tens of Millions by Cutting Funding for Child Sex Changes
The Trump administration’s decision to prohibit Medicaid coverage of child sex-change procedures will save taxpayers at least $18.5 million. Between 2019 and 2023, the total submitted charges for…
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Bill planned to ban gender transitions for minors
(The Center Square) – The debate over whether children should undergo gender transition treatments has grown in fervor since Election Day, though a pending bill to ban the procedures in…
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Organizer cites bias after losing CME credit for class on harms of ‘gender-affirming care’
DENVER — Health care professionals may earn Continuing Medical Education credit for any number of classes promoting “gender-affirming care,” but courses on its drawbacks are apparently a different story. A…
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Campus activists push for anti-Trump ‘mutual defense compact’ of major universities
A group of universities, many of which receive significant federal funding, could soon rebel against President Donald Trump’s executive orders clamping down on progressive initiatives in public education,…
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We Won’t Sign an ‘Implicit Bias’ Pledge
Our medical careers have an expiration date. In 2029 and 2030, respectively, we will no longer be board-certified in emergency medicine and therefore unable to work in almost all U.S.
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Exclusive: Colorado Father Fights To Keep Government From Sterilizing His 14-Year-Old Son
In Colorado, and around the country, parents can be stripped of their rights to oversee their child’s medical decisions by government courts. After raising concerns about his then-13-year-old son taking…
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DeSantis Cracks Down on Colleges Repackaging DEI Despite Florida Ban
Some college administrators have “repurposed DEI under a different banner” and “think they can get away with it” despite anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion laws Florida passed in…
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UConn med school drops mandatory ‘DEI-infused’ Hippocratic Oath
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Oath compelled students ‘to affirm political viewpoints,’ free speech group said The University of Connecticut School of Medicine will no longer require students to recite its Hippocratic Oath that pledges…
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Big University Health System Sued for Racial Discrimination
The medical profession succumbed with surprising rapidity to the “woke” agenda of putting racial characteristics ahead of ability. In student admissions, faculty hiring and firing, and other aspects of medical…
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State Lawmaker Compares Parents Opposed To Pro-Transgender Bill To KKK
A Colorado state lawmaker drew backlash by claiming that parental rights groups opposed to a bill on children’s gender identities are “hate groups” similar to the Ku Klux Klan. Democratic State…
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Major Infant-Mortality Study Was Edited to Preserve Racial ‘Perspective’
Researchers deliberately obscured a data point about white babies under the care of black physicians because it ‘undermines the narrative.’ When the high-profile Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard case was before the…
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Cassidy pressures medical association over youth trans procedures after Trump ban
EXCLUSIVE – A key Republican senator is increasing the pressure on medical associations that are still advocating surgical procedures for youth with gender dysphoria in light of…
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‘Undermines the narrative’: Scholars left out data in study finding black newborns do better with black doctors
Professor’s note on draft says data ‘undermines the narrative,’ according to documents obtained by open records A widely-cited study used to support racial concordance, the theory that medical professionals provide…
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HHS Opens Probe Into Calif. Med School; Reportedly UCLA
The Trump administration announced Thursday that it has opened an investigation into a “major medical school in California” for discriminatory raced-based admissions, with the Washington Free Beacon …
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EXCLUSIVE: One Gov’t Agency Still Spending $1,000,000,000 On DEI Despite Trump’s Order To Cut It Out
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to fund more than a billion dollars in diversity, equity and inclusion programs, even after President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to eliminate…
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NIH Under Fire Over DEI Funding in Grants
The National Institutes of Health is reportedly continuing to award grants that fund diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and initiatives despite President Donald Trump’s order for federal agencies to cease…
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NIH has awarded nearly $3 million to trans research since Trump took office
Trump admin needs to clarify what constitutes ‘promoting gender ideology,’ policy analyst says Since President Donald Trump took office, the National Institutes of Health has awarded nearly $3 million to…
