March 2025

Canadian Born Pamela Anderson Gives Shoutout To Universal Healthcare After Father’s Cancer Scare By Jill Goldsmith March 26, 2025   Pamela Anderson, who was back on screen and all over the awards circuit with last year in Gia Coppola’s film The Last Showgirl, said today that “vanity is a prison” as she accepted a Muse

Milwaukee-area woman deported to Laos though she’s never been there, doesn’t speak the language By Sophie Carson March 14, 2025   A Hmong American woman who has lived in the Milwaukee area since she was 8 months old was deported last week to Laos, a country she has never visited, and says she is stranded

Children’s Hospital L.A. lifts recent limits on hormonal therapy for transgender youth By Emily Alpert Reyes (Staff Writer) February 21, 2025     Children’s Hospital L.A. is reversing its recent decision to pause initiating hormonal therapy for transgender youth, which followed an executive order by President Trump targeting such care.   The hospital said it

Who’s Fighting Back (and not) Against Trump’s Cuts in VA Jobs and Services By Steve Early and Rebecca Gordon March 7, 2025   Among the Republican voters experiencing buyer’s remorse are more than a few military veterans who chose Trump over Harris by a margin of 65 to 34%, according to some exit polls.  

New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review By Erin Reed March 9, 2025   In recent years, U.S. politicians have selectively framed European healthcare policies to justify restrictions on transgender care, seizing on a handful of conservative policies to claim that “Europe is pulling back.” The most extreme example,

The fabricated panic over antisemitism in the U.S. medical community conceals an attack on Palestinians By Wendell Potter February 21, 2025   In 2024, I was disinvited from presenting a lecture on the health and human rights consequences of the Israeli assault on Gaza, by unnamed administrators at Harvard University, who (I was told) accused

DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment, Claiming “Activities Aligned to Hamas” By Meghnad Bose March 9, 2025   NEW YORK CITY—On Saturday night, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents entered a student residential building at Columbia University in uptown New York and detained Mahmoud Khalil, one of the lead negotiators on behalf