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The FDA loosens blood donation rules, allowing more gay & bi donors
However, some feel the guidelines still exclude and add stigma to too many gay and bi donors.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is trying insert anti-trans amendments into the FDA’s funding bill
She’s on a roll, and some are worried that Democrats may compromise just to avoid a government shutdown.
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Missouri attorney general bans gender-affirming care in “power grab”
He apparently couldn’t wait for the state legislature to pass such a ban, so he wrote one himself that’s full of misinformation.
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Will the FDA’s proposed changes to the gay blood donation ban change anything?
The new policy sounds more inclusive, but PrEP users would still be excluded.
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FDA approves new strategy to increase monkeypox vaccine supplies fivefold
“The monkeypox virus has continued to spread at a rate that has made it clear our current vaccine supply will not meet the current demand,” said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf.
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Why is Ron DeSantis’s surgeon general trying to lower public trust in the monkeypox vaccine?
The surgeon general once appeared in a COVID-19 disinformation video alongside a woman who says that “demon sperm” causes ovarian cysts.
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Israel is ending their ban on blood donation from queer men. Why isn’t America?
Men who have sex with men (and women they have sex with) in America are still prevented from freely giving blood as other countries around the world, blood banks, and scientists move away from such archaic policies.
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An out politician recounts how he saved his gay neighbor’s life by donating his kidney
Brian Sims didn’t share that he donated his kidney at first to avoid seeming like it was done for political points. Now his heartwarming story is bringing attention to a life-saving issue.
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Trump blocked Dr. Fauci from going on Rachel Maddow’s show “for months.” Biden has already let him.
Dr. Fauci made his most open rebuke of the Trump administration to date during his MSNBC appearance. “I had pressure put on me, but I resisted it.”
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Gay Senator furious after being turned away from giving blood despite meeting guidelines
Getting rid of the FDA blood ban would empower 175,000 likely gay and bi male donors to give an estimated 300,000 pints of additional blood annually, potentially saving over a million lives each year.