Health News

Kiss FM and Channel 4 Unite Against Bullies

Kiss FM  is running a series of commercials and promotions over the course of May to mark its status of Mental Health Awareness Month.  In one of them, the breakfast presenters of the youth music network, which has national coverage, reference the fact that the equally popular young people's soap opera, Hollyoaks, screened on Channel 4 and its subsidiary E4 Network, is exploring transphobic abuse through the eyes of one of its characters.  Like them, say the voiceovers, any one experiencing harassment from

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"Mean Spirited" Attack on Medicaid, Abortion

Radical magazine Mother Jones is watching the breakneck speed with which Donald Trump's medical bill is passing through the US House of Representatives.  The magazine notes "Trump's "big, beautiful bill" represents the largest cuts to Medicaid in US history, something Republicans

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ProChoice Groups Win the Day in Opposed Demos

Abortion Rights UK headed up a coalition of pro-choice reproductive charities  and organisations on 31st August to counter the annual anti-choice march in London made up largely of highly conservative religious groups.  The Socialist Worker newspaper said that around four hundred

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Care Home Hope After Report Published

The BBC News Channel reports that New guidance has been written for care homes to support inclusive care practice for older LGBTQ+ people.  Researchers from the University of Kent, in collaboration with the University of Surrey and the University of Hertfordshire, have developed

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Ireland Rallies Over Access to Puberty Blocks

Several hundred people rallied in both Belfast and Dublin on 26th August to protest against a ban on prescribing puberty blockers to Northern Ireland.  To the surprise of many people, Sinn Fein, a party that with a strong record on LGBTQIA human rights made the ratification decision as it holds j

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Jan

South African LGBTQIA news network Mamba Online reports that a scheme called "Yellow Dot Doctors" allows people on the margins of the gay and trans communities, who perhaps are not

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Dec

Digital One, a community radio station in North Somerset, says that local and national leaders in sexual health have warned that, as part of general trends towards bacteria becomin

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Nov

Elizabeth Taylor, the Hollywood legend, is celebrated in a retro post from the magazine Into.  The LGBTQIA+ online portal's Henry Giardina looks back at her time a

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Nov

The BBC News Channel reports that Six new regional centres created to support under 18s struggling with their gender identity will open over the next two years, according to the NH

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