Army will not provide Chelsea Manning hormone therapy

Army, File) News broke Thursday morning that Chelsea Manning intends to begin hormone therapy while in prison as part of her gender transition, but a statement released by the U.S. Army suggests that access may be a legal struggle. Inmates at the United States Disciplinary Barracks and Joint Regional Correctional Facility are treated equally regardless of race, rank, ethnicity or sexual orientation, Army spokesman George Wright told Politico. Wright continued that while all inmates are considered soldiers and are treated as such with access to mental health professionals including a psychiatrist, psychologist, social workers and behavioral science noncommissioned officers, the Army does not provide hormone therapy or sex-reassignment surgery for gender identity disorder. Mannings lawyer, David Coombs, said that Manning has not yet indicated whether she intends to seek gender reassignment surgery in addition to hormone therapy, but noted that he will fight to ensure Manning has access to hormone therapy and that she is comfortable in her skin and able to be the person that shes never had an opportunity to be, while incarcerated. The American Civil Liberties Union has also weighed in on the subject of Mannings access to hormone therapy, arguing that denying Manning hormone therapy may be a violation of her constitutional rights: Without the necessary treatment, gender dysphoria can cause severe psychological distress, including anxiety and suicide.
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Government panel: Hormone therapy ‘not recommended’

To be sure, it is not the first time Manning’s gender identity has been publicly discussed. Manning’s 2010 chat logs with hacker Adrian Lamo , for instance, indicate that the soldier has long intended to transition to female. Her identity was also discussed during the espionage trial. Manning and her team stepped up the timing of the announcement after reading a report indicating that the military wouldn’t provide hormone therapy access. Coombs explained to the AP: “It was Chelsea’s intent to do this all along,” Coombs said.
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Chelsea Manning Would Pay for her Own Hormone Therapy in Prison

“It’s a subjective thing. Only women can say how disturbing is this to me.” Youth — or a person’s specific risk factors for disease — may also affect their risk for developing heart disease and dementia. “The balance of benefits or harms may be different with young women, so you can’t say this absolutely applies to younger women making hormone therapy decisions,” Crandall said. The panel acknowledges research gaps when it comes to taking hormone therapy for chronic illness, particularly as it relates to this younger group of women. The average age of women participating in the Women’s Health Initiative was 64 years, well past the age that menopause usually begins.
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UPDATE 1-Roche looks to replicate cancer success with eye drugs

It hopes those same tools will help it prove it is on the right track with treatments for vision loss as well. In the phase II trial, Roche identified a specific sub-population of GA patients using exploratory biomarkers – a tool which helps it identify the efficacy of its drugs earlier. Among that group, the rate of GA slowed by 44 percent at 18 months. “As we understand the science better, and if we see successes in our treatment of more advanced stages, we’d be looking to go and impact the disease earlier,” Ho said. As well as developing its own drugs in-house, Roche is also interested in other companies working in this field, she added.
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Eye Surgeons in Salt Lake City Welcome Glaucoma and Cataract Specialist to Their Practice

He is actively involved in numerous ophthalmology organizations. As the Eye Banks third Man of Vision award recipient, Dr. Chu is in good company fellow ophthalmologists Marco Zarbin, M.D., Ph.D., FACS, and William Constad, M.D., previously received the honor. Retired Jersey City educator, cornea recipient and Eye Bank board member Walter McDermott is leading the events planning committee. Tickets to attend Night for Sight are $150 per person; sponsorship and advertising opportunities are also available. For more information, please contact the Eye Bank at 732-382-3060, or visit our website at http://www.LEBNJ.org . The Lions Eye Bank of New Jersey, a subsidiary of Midwest EyeBanks is a charitable, notforprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and restoration of sight.
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A black eye for Vision Eye

Weber, MD to its team. The Salt Lake City eye surgery practice says Dr. Weber is its newest specialist in glaucoma and cataract surgery, conditions that can cause deteriorating vision loss and even blindness if left untreated. At The Eye Institute of Utah, Dr.
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Eye Bank to honor David Chu, M.D., as ‘Man of Vision’

The company took a $26.3 million impairment on goodwill, arising from a reduction to forecast earnings from New South Wales. Revenues were down 3.7% to $107.1 million, thanks to changes to health fund rebates, exit from the Mackay day surgery business in January 2012, and most worryingly, continued decline in discretionary refractive revenues.As retailers David Jones (ASX:DJS) and Myer Holdings (ASX:MYR) are experiencing, consumers are keeping their hands in their pockets when it comes to discretionary purchases. That includes spending money on eye surgery to reduce the reliance on glasses and contact lenses. Pleasingly, finance costs dropped 24.4%, as gross bank debt fell from $85 million in 2012 to $47.5 million, and the group benefitted from lower interest rates. Debt has been dropping consistently since 2008, and at the end of July 2013, Vision Eye reports that it had just $37 million in net bank debt.
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Hormone therapy in the 50s not linked to memory loss

During the follow-up period, the women were asked 14 questions that measured their cognitive abilities during phone interviews. Overall, all groups scored about a 38 on a scale from zero to 50 – with lower scores signaling more memory problems. There was also no difference between the groups on several other scales that measured – among other things – attention and working memory. Francine Grodstein, who wrote an editorial accompany the new study in JAMA Internal Medicine, told Reuters Health the findings are primarily reassuring. “So for (younger) women who really need hormone therapy to treat menopause symptoms this study didn’t find hormone therapy had the amount of harm as it did for older women,” said Grodstein, an associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Espeland told Reuters Health there could be a few possible explanations for the difference between older and younger women using hormone replacement therapy. One possible explanation could be that older women already have more memory problems and hormone therapy accelerates the decline.
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Hormone therapy: Is it right for you?

(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Bradley Manning Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, before a hearing in his court martial. A prosecutor recommended in closing arguments Monday that Manning should spend 60 years in prison for giving classified material to WikiLeaks. A U.S.
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U.S. Army Does Not Provide Sex-Reassignment Surgery, Hormone Therapy: Spokeswoman

Hormone therapy is no longer recommended for disease prevention, such as heart disease or memory loss. However, further review of clinical trials and new evidence show that hormone therapy may be a good choice for certain women, depending on their risk factors. Don’t Miss Boomer’s Health What are the benefits of hormone therapy? The benefits of hormone therapy depend, in part, on whether you take systemic hormone therapy or low-dose vaginal preparations of estrogen.
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Skin Care in Bolivia – New Market Study Published

How To Protect Your Skin Before Undergoing Surgery

As a result, even direct selling companies are making attempts to expand sales of their body care brands by… Euromonitor International’s Skin Care in Bolivia report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data 2008-2012, allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. Forecasts to 2017 illustrate how the market is set to change.
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She recommends talking to a skincare professional. Layer Up With Sunscreen The beauty rule is, “as long as there’s daylight, you need sunscreen,” says Robin White, director of international education and global press of Philosophy. If you skipped out on using an SPF moisturizer on your skin during the winter months, spring is the season to get back on track. Exfoliate Your Skin Even though skin exfoliation should be done throughout the year, spring is the season to give our skin the attention it deserves. “Dry body brushing can help to decrease dry skin and flakiness. Application of body oils will keep skin conditioned and smooth,” says Sherrard.
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Digestive health: 10 Tips for getting your digestive system back on track

How your dog’s digestive system works

Here are some tips to help keep your digestive flow on track this year: 1 Incorporate healthy bacteria in your diet Factors such as stress, lack of sleep, antibiotics, illness, aging and poor diet choices can often lead to an imbalance of your digestive tract bacteria. Certain probiotics, mostly found in dairy products and some fortified cereals, can help to maintain the balance of “good” bacteria in the digestive tract. Try a daily helping of yogurt with probiotics, such as Activia. 2 Keep the fiber on deck Consistently eating the right amount of fiber can help promote bowel function. High-fiber foods such as fruit, vegetables and whole grains also help you feel full, which can help lower your chance of overeating throughout the day. Keeping a running tab on the fiber you consume can help give you more energy.
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Breast really IS best: Mothers’ milk fills a child’s digestive system with essential ‘good’ bacteria

‘We’re not sure of the route the bacteria takes from gut to breast milk but, we have used culture, isolation, sequencing and fingerprinting methods to confirm that they are definitely the same strains.’ The findings are published in the latest issue of the journal Environmental Microbiology. DNA tests were carried out on the breast milk of seven healthy mothers and their exclusively breast-fed babies who were up to one month old. The scientists tested faecal samples to identify bacteria in the guts of both infants and their mothers. Breast beats the bottle again: Previous research has shown breast milk protects babies against stomach bugs, chest infections, asthma and allergies The researchers wrote: ‘This study shows that gut-associated anaerobes may be vertically transferred from mother to neonate (infant) via breastfeeding. ‘Our data supports the recently suggested hypothesis of a novel way of mother-neonate communication, in which maternal gut bacteria reach breast milk via an entero-mammary pathway to influence neonatal gut colonisation and maturation of the immune system.’ Japanese research published earlier this month found that breastfeeding can halve the risk of children being obese by the age of eight. The risk of children being overweight is also cut by around 15 per cent in those breastfed for six months, compared with those fed formula milk.
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This is thought to be a habit from the wild state, the days when the dog’s ancestors had to eat their food fast. As a prevention against acute indigestion, the dog’s stomach has high amounts of hydrochloric acid to break down the chunks passed from the mouth. The dogs stomach also has a good reverse action and can regurgitate food that may be too large. The stomach juices are capable of dissolving large chunks of food and bones. By the time the food reaches the small intestine, the juices have broken it down to a state where it can be easily processed and assimilated. When your mature dog’s digestive system is functioning smoothly, the typical meal takes 7- to 10-hours to pass through the digestive system.
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New Report Details Massive Misspending in California’s Mental Health Services Act

By making it a ‘clarifying’ amendment he cleverly avoided the two-thirds vote that would normally be required to overturn a voter initiative and became a hero to the mental health community that will only treat those well enough to recognize their need for it. He wants to make this a model for the nation. That would be cruel to taxpayers and people with serious mental illness. When Monterey county tried to the spend their funds on people with serious mental illness as voters intended, the Oversight commission stopped them cold. These “programs cannot serve people with a mental health diagnosis….(P)lease clarify that these programs include persons without a mental health diagnosis.” Massive funding was diverted to studies.
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Audit: Mental health privatization increased costs

She said the audit was a limited analysis of four providers that didn’t look at the full implications of the contract. “The partnership has allowed us to expand access to care for more individuals and provide better quality services through managed care,” Kliebert said. She added, “This was the program’s first year and, as with any new program, we’ve learned what works and how to improve it.” The contract with Magellan began in March 2012 and runs through February 2014. The state paid Magellan $156 million for the first year of work, according to the audit. Magellan pays the local human services districts a fee for each service delivered. The fees make up as much as 15 percent of the local agencies’ operating budgets, according to the legislative auditor’s office.
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