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By The Seattle Lesbian
in Health
11 days ago
The Birth Control Privacy Act would explicitly prohibit workplace wellness programs from disclosing personally identifiable information to employers about their workers’ use of birth control. ...
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Medicine syringe for a baby.

By The Seattle Lesbian
in Health
23 days ago
A nine-year-old South African child who was diagnosed with HIV infection at one month of age and received anti-HIV treatment during infancy has suppressed the virus without anti-HIV drugs for eight and a half years. ...
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By The Seattle Lesbian
in Health
24 days ago
Despite decades of controversy over the procedures, doctors operate on children’s gonads, internal sex organs, and genitals when they are too young to participate in the decision, even though the surgeries could be safely deferred. ...
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Anne-christine d’Adesky in her element, at a San Francisco protest. (Photo: Juno Rosenhaus)

By The Seattle Lesbian
in Editorial Health
28 days ago
Exhausted from years of activism with ACT UP and The Lesbian Avengers, an organization she co-founded, d’Adesky took a break in Paris to reflect on her life while becoming entranced with long walks along the Seine River. ...
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By Sarah Toce, Editor-in-Chief
in Editorial Health
July 14, 2017
Americans may have the edge on Olympic medals, fast food chains and Broadway musicals, but we’re severely lacking in the parental leave department. ...
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By The Seattle Lesbian
in Health
July 11, 2017
As the recent Hepatitis A outbreak in San Diego demonstrates, the need for improved medical devices in our hospitals and for outpatients is one way to manage medical issues and prevent new problems. ...
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Meghan Maya/Washington Won't Discriminate

By The Seattle Lesbian
in Health
June 19, 2017
Just Want Privacy, the political group behind so-called “safety” initiative 1552, is violating Washington state’s election laws by failing to report numerous contributions from anti-LGBTQ groups like the Family Policy Institute of Washington, Alliance Defending Freedom, State Rep. Graham Hunt, and others. ...
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By The Seattle Lesbian
in Health Local
June 1, 2017
Seattle/King County Clinic returns to KeyArena at Seattle Center for a fourth year, Oct. 26-29, with an ambitious goal of providing over $3.5 million in free dental, vision and medical services to people in need. ...
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By The Seattle Lesbian
in Health
May 29, 2017
The report outlines how challenges, including a lifetime of discrimination in employment, accessing comprehensive health care, and housing-as well as lack of legal and social relationship recognition-can lead to poverty, social isolation, and poorer mental and physical health. ...
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By The Seattle Lesbian
in Health
May 23, 2017
San Francisco-Oakland finished third this year, Seattle-Tacoma fourth, San Jose fifth, Boston sixth, and Denver seventh. The top seven cities in the 2017 AFI are between 4-13 percentage points ahead of the rest of the pack. ...
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