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Joe Biden may soon let medical companies develop cannabis-based medicines
Marijuana has long been criminalized and vilified. But the Drug Enforcement Agency may soon make a major change that couple help patients nationwide.
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The FDA may soon end its ban on gay & bi sperm donations
The change could allow more gay and bi men to become fathers.
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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.