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Opinion: Ending the federal LGBTQ+ suicide prevention line is a public health failure

STAT

Last month, the federal government announced it would eliminate the national suicide prevention hotline’s specialized services for LGBTQ+ callers — a decision that pulls vital support away from some of the most at-risk young people in America. The end of the service on July 17 is a crushing moment, but it should also be a wake-up call.

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Microdosing: how ‘off-label’ use of weight loss jabs is spreading from US to UK

The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

Private clinics offer reduced doses of GLP-1 drugs such as Mounjaro to clients outside usual market, but some people are wary A slim woman standing in a kitchen injects herself in the abdomen. Another jogs. A third kneels on a yoga mat drinking water. The shots are intercut with a doctor telling the viewer: “Usually it’s for people who don’t actually have that much to lose – it’s a bit of a gentler way to get to your target weight.

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U.S. drops charges against doctor accused of throwing away Covid shots, selling fake vaccine cards

STAT

The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away  COVID-19 vaccines , giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards. U.S. Attorney General  Pam Bondi  said in a post on the social media platform X that charges against Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, of Midvale, Utah, were dismissed at her direction.

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