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Medicine, public health, disease and healthcare systems.
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Of the 55 claims in Health with evidence either way, 87% held up.
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A report by the Home Office of Britain from 2022 found that roughly 4,000 people underwent transition surgery each year in Iran.
A U.N. report on transition surgeries in Iran from 2015 described botched procedures that led to complications like 'severe bleeding, severe infection, scarring, chronic pain and abnormally shaped or located sexual organs.'
Iran’s theocratic government has set a goal of generating more than $7 billion from medical tourism annually.
In the United States, the cost of surgery is around $45,000, and in Thailand, it’s approximately $30,000.
The cost of gender confirmation surgery in Iran is lower, with prices less than $12,000.
Iran is one of the few places in the Muslim world that allows transgender people to seek gender-affirming care, and even subsidizes it.
For 40 years Iran has performed more gender transition surgeries than many other nations.
Iran became a pioneer in gender transition operations by forcing procedures on L.G.B.T.Q. Iranians.
Three-quarters of the island’s females had genital injuries.
A female Hermann’s tortoise from the island of Golem Grad in North Macedonia had an injury from a fall on her carapace.
Law enforcement officials said that they would work with the schools to offer counseling services for the students who escaped the shooting, she said.
Mr. Lopez was also transported to the hospital, where he was treated for injuries that were not life-threatening, according to the police.
The consequences would have been “staggering” if Mr. Trump had prevailed, undermining research into cancer cures and other advancements.
Some of the funding that the president had tried to erase — including for medical research, college aid and benefits for poor people — instead changed only slightly, the data show.
In 2017, he announced that he had Parkinson’s disease, which in its early stages can produce similar effects on bodily movements and speech.
Mr. Jackson was hospitalized in November for treatment of a rare and particularly severe neurodegenerative condition, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), according to the advocacy organization he founded, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
Staying up is reckless and bad for us.
The author's uncle had stopped riding his bicycle only six months before, at 79.
Also, their diet is very specific to each animal.
The problem is that exposure to PFAS can cause damage to the liver and immune system.
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Measles is one of the most contagious diseases.
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Rigorous scientific findings since 2009 have showed that greenhouse gases and global warming are harming public health.
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In 2026, there are few signs so far of the virus slowing down.
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Gazans are starving and dying of starvation.
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