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Gender-affirming surgeries tripled in the U.S. between 2016-2019, study finds

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nearly tripled between 2016 and 2019, according to new national estimates from a cohort study in JAMA Network Open. Over 48,000 people got some type of gender-affirming surgery between 2016-2020, with a slight decrease in the number of surgeries performed in 2020, likely because of the pandemic.

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Opinion: Why isn’t there agreement on when women need to start getting mammograms?

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The task force’s newest advice , which gives a “B” grade in favor of routine mammograms for women in their 40s, reverses its 2016 statement saying the test should be optional for such women. And that 2016 opinion conflicted with earlier task force recommendations.

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Opinion: What happened to obesity after Chile slew Tony the Tiger?

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With some of the highest obesity levels in South America, the country had begun enforcing strict regulations on Frosted Flakes and other foods that exceeded set thresholds for sugar, calories, salt, or saturated fat in 2016. Read the rest…

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Opinion: Aduhelm was a mess — and it could happen again

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In the eight years between the drug’s spectacular 2016 debut on the cover of Nature and its ignominious end , Biogen made multiple, really bad decisions. Its decision, the company explained, is not a response to new data about the drug’s safety or efficacy, but instead “a reprioritization of resources.”

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A doctor’s humbling journey treating long Covid: ‘The second we think we know what we are doing, we fall flat on our face’

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I first met Wes Ely in 2016, when I wrote about ICU delirium and Ely’s attempts, as a critical-care physician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, to urge fellow health care workers to rethink the use of heavy sedation in ICUs. Well, a lot’s happened since 2016.

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Long Covid is more prevalent among Americans with disabilities, new CDC data show

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The data, gathered in 2022, is part of the agency’s Disability and Health Data System , which has annual state and national-level data stretching back to 2016. This comorbidity looms large for many disabled communities as another surge in Covid cases sweeps the country.

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STAT+: Philips pays $2.4 million for allegedly giving kickbacks to sleep labs

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Philips Respironics, a subsidiary of Philips, allegedly gave out masks from 2016 to 2021. The masks, according to a press release from the Department of Justice, were used to diagnose and treat sleep disorders. The case never went to court. The DOJ says Philips violated the Anti-Kickback Statute as well as the False Claims Act.

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