Transgender Veterans Sue to Have Gender-Affirming Surgery Covered by VA
A group of transgender veterans filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to force the Department of Veterans Affairs to begin providing and paying for gender-affirming surgeries. The lawsuit from the Transgender American Veterans Association seeks to compel the VA to codify in its regulations verbal assurances the department has made that it would begin providing those […]
Older Men Still Overscreened for Prostate Cancer, Survey Says
Older men are being overscreened for prostate cancer, despite U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) guidelines against prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing in men ages 70 and up, a survey study showed. Among a cohort of over 30,000 men, recent PSA screening rates were 55.3% for men ages 70 to 74, 52.1% for those ages 75 […]
USPSTF: Screen Kids 8 and Up for Anxiety
In new draft guidelines, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) for the first time recommends that healthcare providers screen children for anxiety, regardless of whether they are showing signs and symptoms. USPSTF is recommending anxiety screening for children ages 8 and older (B grade) and reaffirmed their recommendations to screen for major depression in […]
Breakup of a single chemical bond measured
The team used a high-resolution atomic force microscope (AFM) operating in a controlled environment at Princeton’s Imaging and Analysis Center. The AFM probe, whose tip ends in a single copper atom, was moved gradually closer to the iron-carbon bond until it was ruptured. The researchers measured the mechanical forces applied at the moment of breakage, […]