Parliament of the Faroe Islands voted on Thursday to legalise abortion until the end of the 12th week of pregnancy, overturning a decades-old law that prohibited abortions in most cases ~health Article 633 words 16 votes
Keira is one of many Greenlandic families living on the Danish mainland who are fighting to get their children returned to them after they were removed by social services ~life family parenting Article 1957 words 14 votes
How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be ~humanities.history Article 3801 words 9 votes
Pilot scheme where students eat nutritious breakfasts using donated surplus food builds on the ‘folkhem’ welfare model to boost health and sustainability in Sweden ~food Article 1006 words 12 votes
US State Attorneys Generals defend trans Americans in letter to Donald Trump’s Federal Trade Commission ~lgbt transgender Article 1242 words 44 votes
British Columbia Premier David Eby announces new Prince George, Surrey involuntary care facilities ~health.mental Link 15 votes
Young Greenlandic woman living in Denmark will regain custody of the infant girl taken from her shortly after birth – becomes the latest flashpoint between Denmark and Greenland ~life.women Article 25 votes
In a concerted effort to improve previously poor cancer survival rates, Denmark's success story has caught the attention of UK policymakers ~health healthcare medicine Article 1333 words 9 votes
The obvious reason the US should not vaccinate like Denmark – it isn't Denmark ~health medicine Article 2053 words 6 votes
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) suing Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine policy ~health medicine healthcare Link 30 votes
How a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children ~life.women Article 3849 words 30 votes
The plan to vaccinate all Americans, despite Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ~health medicine Article 1713 words 28 votes
US Supreme Court upholds Tennessee ban on youth gender-affirming care ~lgbt transgender Article 306 words 34 votes
Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits transgender youth ~lgbt transgender Article 1541 words 27 votes
Republicans pass bill stripping transgender Americans of health care ~lgbt transgender Article 885 words 84 votes
US Food and Drug Administration to limit covid shot approval to elderly, those with medical conditions ~health Article 1114 words 52 votes
Diseases are spreading. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention isn't warning the public like it was months ago. ~health Article 2108 words 31 votes
US National Institutes of Health guts its first and largest study centered on women ~science Link 19 votes
Is it possible to make a country healthier one slice of rye bread at a time? If the rocketing wholegrain consumption of the Danes is anything to go by, absolutely. ~food diet Article 1803 words 17 votes
Eastern District of Texas strikes down Food and Drug Administration’s final rule regulating laboratory developed tests ~health Article 1520 words 13 votes
Miami-Dade County commissioners vote in favor of removing fluoride from water systems ~health Article 581 words 12 votes
From Tuberculosis to HIV/AIDS to cancer, disease tracking has always had a political dimension, but it’s the foundation of US public health ~health Article 1112 words 9 votes
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and US influencers bash seed oils, baffling nutrition scientists ~food Article 1182 words 52 votes
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Texas measles outbreak is call to action for all of us. MMR vaccine is crucial to avoiding potentially deadly disease. ~health medicine Article 797 words 34 votes
Those of us who work in gender medicine are not going anywhere ~lgbt transgender Article 845 words 19 votes
National Institutes of Health ordered by US President Trump admin to enact 'immediate and indefinite' travel suspension ~health Article 772 words 37 votes
Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots ~health medicine Article 2855 words 33 votes
A bird flu pandemic would be one of the most foreseeable catastrophes in history ~health Article 1355 words 34 votes
Declaration of Helsinki turns sixty – how this foundational document of medical ethics has stood the test of time ~health medicine healthcare Article 1008 words 8 votes
Texas abortion ban linked to 13% increase in infant and newborn deaths ~health medicine healthcare Article 577 words 54 votes
The US surgeon general wants tobacco-like warning labels on social media ~health.mental Article 512 words 28 votes
Sweden and Finland have moved to relax strict laws that govern the sale of alcohol, while preserving wider state monopolies ~food drinks Article 294 words 9 votes
HHS strengthens privacy of US reproductive health care data ~health healthcare Article 917 words 10 votes
California sets nation-leading limit for carcinogenic chromium-6 in drinking water ~enviro pollution.water water.drinking Article 1321 words 17 votes
US President Joe Biden just signed the largest executive order focused on women’s health ~life.women Article 959 words 23 votes
Compensating compassion | Too few people donate their organs, dead or alive. How can we make it easier to donate, but avoid the abuses that some fear from cash payments? ~health Article 4781 words 32 votes
Aripiprazole (Abilify and generic brands): risk of pathological gambling ~health.mental Article 928 words 14 votes
It's one of the world's toughest anti-smoking laws. The Māori see a major flaw. ~health Article 2655 words 23 votes
Denmark is to restrict the sale of alcohol to under-eighteens and increase the price of suckable nicotine sachets, as their growing popularity is worrying health authorities ~health Article 284 words 31 votes
Why the US never saves money on health care ~health healthcare Article 903 words, published Oct 2 2023 25 votes
Scottish officials approve UK’s first drug consumption room intended for safer use of illegal drugs ~health Article 502 words, published Sep 27 2023 30 votes
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak considers banning cigarettes for next generation ~health Article 895 words 36 votes