Dr. Hilary Cass published a landmark report that led to restrictions on youth gender care in Britain. U.S. health groups said it did not change their support of the care.
A bioethicist, she pioneered bedside methods for helping patients, their families and doctors deal with anguishing life-and-death decisions in a high-tech age.
Nancy Dubler, director of the bioethics division at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, spoke in 2005 with Fred Haber, who was at his wife’s bedside after a mediation session.
Five European countries have recently restricted hormone treatments for adolescents with gender distress. They have not banned the care, unlike many U.S. states.
The Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service in London, which until recently was the National Health Service’s sole youth gender clinic. In 2018, 10 clinicians there complained that they felt pressure to quickly approve children for puberty blockers.
Scientists reviewed 212 studies involving 12,966 individuals, finding strong evidence of health benefits in adults that engaged in touch with other humans or objects such as weighted blankets.
Despite the explosion in ransomware hacks like the one against Change Healthcare, regulation is spotty and few new safeguards have been proposed to protect patient data, vulnerable hospitals and medical groups.
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