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☆ An ‘Unsettling’ Drop in Life Expectancy for Men
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Azeen Ghorayshi | More About Azeen Ghorayshi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Background: The life expectancy gap has substantially widened — and shrunk — before. At the turn of the 20th century, women had a life expectancy just two years higher than men, Dr. Yan said. That year, the life expectancy for men was 76.3 years, while for women it was 78.1. Between 2019 and 2021, the life expectancy in the United States dropped from around 79 to 76 years. Unintentional injuries — mostly drug overdoses — contributed to more than 30 percent of the life expectancy gap between men and women.

Persons: Yan, Covid, —, ” Dr Locations: United States

☆ What to Know About the Sexual Side Effects of Antidepressants
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Azeen Ghorayshi | More About Azeen Ghorayshi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

When S.S.R.I.s went on the market in the late 1980s, patients began telling their psychiatrists that they were having sexual problems. Initially, doctors were perplexed: As far as they knew, older antidepressants had never come with these issues. Men were much more likely to report sexual side effects to their doctors than women were, even though women are almost twice as likely to be prescribed antidepressants. For some people, the sexual side effects of S.S.R.I.s will show up almost immediately after starting the medications and then resolve. So doctors may suggest waiting four to six months to see whether the sexual effects subside.

Persons: Don’t, S.S.R.I.s, ”, Jonathan Alpert, Tierney Lorenz Organizations: Psychiatric, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

☆ After Antidepressants, a Loss of Sexuality
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Azeen Ghorayshi | More About Azeen Ghorayshi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The safety label on Prozac, one of the most widely prescribed S.S.R.I.s, warns that sexual problems may persist after the drug is discontinued. sexual dysfunction. Clinical trials have not followed people after they stop the drugs to determine whether such sexual problems stem from the medications. Dr. Clayton published some of the earliest research showing that S.S.R.I.s come with widespread sexual side effects. She worries that too much attention on seemingly rare cases of sexual dysfunction after S.S.R.I.s are stopped could dissuade suicidal patients from trying the medications.

Persons: ”, Anita Clayton, Clayton Organizations: University of Virginia School of Medicine Locations: Europe, Canada, Spain

☆ Judge Allows Missouri’s Ban on Youth Gender Medicine to Take Effect
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Azeen Ghorayshi | More About Azeen Ghorayshi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Under Missouri’s law, clinicians will not be allowed to treat any minor who is not already receiving gender transition care, which includes drugs that suppress puberty; hormone treatments with estrogen or testosterone; and, in rare cases, surgeries. The law will also affect transgender adults, as it bans Medicaid coverage of gender transition care for people of all ages in the state. Ms. Reed filed an affidavit about her experience in February and testified on Tuesday in favor of the ban. Chloe Cole, a 19-year-old who has frequently testified to state legislatures about regretting gender treatments she received as a younger teenager in California, also testified on behalf of the state of Missouri against the injunction. The plaintiffs in the legal challenge include three transgender minors who are seeking medical care to transition and will no longer be able to do so once the law is in effect.

Persons: Jamie Reed, Reed, Chloe Cole Organizations: Doctors, Williams Institute, School of Law Locations: California, Missouri

☆ How a Small Gender Clinic Landed in a Political Storm
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Azeen Ghorayshi | More About Azeen Ghorayshi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The small Midwestern gender clinic was buckling under an unrelenting surge in demand. Last year, dozens of young patients were seeking appointments every month, far too many for the clinic’s two psychologists to screen. Opened in 2017 inside a children’s hospital affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis, the prestigious clinic was welcomed by many families as a godsend. But as the number of these patients soared, the clinic became overwhelmed — and soon found itself at the center of a political storm. advocates have pointed to parents who disputed her account in local news reports and to a Washington University investigation that determined her claims were “unsubstantiated.”

Persons: Louis, —, Jamie Reed, Reed’s, ” Organizations: Washington University, Republican, L.G.B.T.Q Locations: St, Missouri

☆ Medical Group Backs Youth Gender Treatments, but Calls for Research Review
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Azeen Ghorayshi | More About Azeen Ghorayshi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The American Academy of Pediatrics backed gender-related treatments for children on Thursday, reaffirming its position from 2018 on a medical approach that has since been banned in 19 states. But the influential group of doctors also took an extra step of commissioning a systematic review of medical research on the treatments, following similar efforts in Europe that found uncertain evidence for their effectiveness in adolescents. Critics across the political spectrum — including a small but vocal group of pediatricians — have been calling for a closer look at the evidence in recent years, particularly as the number of adolescents who identify as transgender has rapidly increased. The treatments are relatively new, and few studies have tracked their long-term effects. Health bodies in England and Sweden have limited access to the treatments after carrying out systematic reviews, the gold standard for evaluating medical research.

Organizations: American Academy of Pediatrics Locations: Europe, England, Sweden

Fight or Flight: Transgender Care Bans Leave Families and Doctors ScramblingLaws in 20 states have left the fate of clinics in doubt and families with transgender children searching for medical care across state lines. But two new laws have left them debating whether to leave Iowa. A ban on a medication that pauses puberty taken by their transgender son, Brecker, was signed into law by the state’s governor in March. “It’s like trying to cross a bridge but the boards just fall out,” said Brecker, who recently finished seventh grade and began receiving puberty blockers in December, a year after coming out as transgender. “So you’re hanging on those two ropes, inching yourself across, not knowing whether the ropes are going to snap or break.”In 20 states, bans or restrictions on transition-related medical care for transgender youths are upending the lives of families and medical providers.

Persons: David, Wendy Batchelder, Brecker, ” Organizations: Republican Locations: West Des Moines , Iowa, Iowa

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