The uncustomary quiet of a Sunday morning in the emergency department is broken by a universally relevant question. And if your heart were to suddenly stop beating, what would you like us to do?
When Justice Samuel Alito challenged the ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio on such claims during oral arguments, Strangio made a startling admission. He conceded that there is no evidence to support the idea that medical transition reduces adolescent suicide rates.
In whispered hallway conversations and encrypted texts, and with rainbow pins discreetly clipped to lanyards, an underground resistance is taking shape within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
"After a decade-long campaign to stop the use of painful electric shock devices on people with disabilities, a federal ban appeared on the horizon, but now hangs in uncertainty amid the Trump administration's upheaval."
"For decades, the Cuban government has sent thousands of health professionals to work in remote villages and cities in dozens of countries, where they get just a fraction of what the countries pay Cuba for their services."