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Feb 21 2024
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Frozen embryo ruling renews focus on IVF, fertility treatments
WASHINGTON — An Alabama Supreme Court decision legally recognizing frozen embryos as children has reignited concerns and confusion about the future of fertility treatments including in vitro fertilization, with both sides recognizing the broader impact of the case. The court on Friday ruled that frozen embryos — which are used in IVF — are considered unborn children. Alabama voters amended
The Dallas Morning NewsFeb 28 2024
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NFLPA Blistering Report Card: Patriots Failing in Facilities, Treatment of Families
An anonymous survey of New England Patriots players reveals low perceptions of Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft, the team's weight room and the organization's treatment of families. The New England Patriots endured their worst season in 30 years in 2023, going 4-13 and parting ways with future Hall of Fame coach Bill Belichick. Difficult as it is to fathom, could it have been even worse off the
WPRI 12Feb 28 2024
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Indiana Ban on Transgender Treatments for Minors Can Be Enforced, Court Rules
Hormonal treatments for minors can cause bone damage, stroke, and infertility, Indiana’s Deputy Solicitor General James Barta said. An appeals court reversed a district court ruling against an Indiana law seeking to ban gender transition procedures for minors, allowing the regulations to come into effect. In April last year, Indiana Governor Eric Halcomb signed into law SB 480 prohibiting
The Epoch TimesFeb 26 2024
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Fort Wayne mayor to begin treatment for late-stage stomach cancer
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WISH) — Democrat Mayor Tom Henry of Fort Wayne announced Monday that he has late-stage stomach cancer. The news comes after his wife, Cindy S. Henry, died Jan. 20 at age 67 after battling pancreatic cancer for about a year. The 72-year-old Fort Wayne native took the mayor’s job in 2008, and he won an unprecedented fifth four-year term in November. A news release from the
Wish TVMar 12 2024
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Dozens allege child sexual abuse in Maryland treatment program under newly filed lawsuits
More than three dozen people allege in two lawsuits filed Tuesday that they were sexually abused as children at a Maryland residential program for youths that closed in 2017 following similar allegations. In the separate lawsuits, atorneys detailed decades of alleged abuse of children by staff members of the Good Shepherd Services behavioral health treatment center, which had billed itself as
San Diego Union-TribuneFeb 22 2024
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Hospital system in Alabama IVF case pauses treatment - Washington Examiner
The hospital system involved in the controversial Alabama Supreme Court ruling on in vitro fertilization, or IVF, announced on Thursday that it would suspend all IVF procedures. The Center for Reproductive Medicine at Mobile Infirmary is “pausing IVF treatments to prepare embryos for transfer” effective Feb. 24, it said in a press statement sent to the Washington Examiner. President of
Washington ExaminerFeb 22 2024
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Health care workers push for their own confidential mental health treatment
States are redefining when medical professionals can get mental health treatment without risking notifying the boards that regulate their licenses. Too often, health care workers wait to seek counseling or addiction treatment, causing their work and patient care to suffer, said Jean Branscum, CEO of the Montana Medical Association, an industry group representing doctors. “They’ve invested so
Independent RecordFeb 22 2024
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Health care workers push for their own confidential mental health treatment
Montana is among the states looking to boost confidential care for health professionals as long as they’re not deemed a danger to themselves or patients. In recent years, at least a dozen states have considered or created confidential wellness programs to offer clinicians help early on for career burnout or mental health issues. States have also reworked medical licensing questions to avoid
The Montana StandardFeb 22 2024
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Health Care Workers Push for Their Own Confidential Mental Health Treatment
States are redefining when medical professionals can get mental health treatment without risking notifying the boards that regulate their licenses. Too often, health care workers wait to seek counseling or addiction treatment, causing their work and patient care to suffer, said Jean Branscum, CEO of the Montana Medical Association, an industry group representing doctors. “They’ve invested so
Daily Texas NewsFeb 21 2024
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Fertility treatments freeze after Alabama Supreme Court's embryo ruling
Doctors and patients are already rethinking fertility treatments after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled last week that frozen embryos should receive legal protections as "unborn life." Driving the news: The University of Alabama at Birmingham paused in vitro fertilization treatments, citing "the potential that our patients and our physicians could be prosecuted criminally or face punitive
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