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As a bicycle novector, statistics on the deaths of pedestrians and cyclists in the fourth article of today have definitively annoyed me. If you drive, pay attention to people on bikes and on foot.

Trump Admin ends the LGBTQ + line of 988

To date, there are no longer any specialized suicide prevention services for young LGBTQ + on the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline. Three years after the launch of the shortcut dial number, the Trump administration reduced these services “to focus on service all Help the researchers, ”according to a press release. A recent test of the first opinion called for the end of this service “an overwhelming” moment and “a failure of public health”.

It has been established several times by research that young queers have a higher risk of suicide than their hetero peers. A survey of national representation of more than 2,000 respondents, completed this summer by the National Alliance on mental illness, revealed that 60% have at least support for financing specialized LGBTQ + services for 988, and 79% estimated that young people needed more mental health resources dedicated to their specific needs.

The abolition of the specialized line is the last in a measurement dam by the Trump administration targeting LGBTQ people. And although most policies focus on young people, financing proposals continue to be made which could also assign access to adults to care. Another survey, published yesterday in Jama Network Open, revealed that on nearly 500 respondents, each person thought that their access to care affirmed by the sexes would be limited in the next four years.

Everything you need to know about the assistant candidate HHS

We do not know how Brian Christine, a specialist in sexual health who emphasized pennile implants and erectile dysfunction, took into account for the main deputies of the HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (In March, the Wall Street Journal reported that Christine’s practice also announced services for transgender men, what Christine then denied, According to the Washington Post.)

Christine is a donor of the GOP who has lost twice in the local and state elections, where he presented himself as a republican. But during his confirmation hearing before the Senate aid committee, he argued on the part of the first hand the concerns that patients have with the health system – refusal of insurance at high medicines to a shrinking workforce. Learn more about Chelsea Cirruzzo de Stat on the reaction of senators like Bill Cassidy.

In more new politicians: Chelsea can also catch up with the two best HHS assistants that Kennedy rejected this week, after only months of work.

A neglected group has the highest suicide rate – and it increases

If you were to guess, which demography would you say is the most at risk of suicide? You would not be blamed to tell young people – for years, there has been an increase in research, plea and awareness of the mental health of young people. But in truth, it is another neglected group: older men.

“There is a belief among some that depression is a natural element of aging,” said Olivia Goldhill, professor of social and behavioral sciences, Mark Salzer, professor of social and behavioral sciences. “It’s not.” Suicide rates have increased regularly for two decades among men aged 55 and over, and researchers struggle with the question of why and how to intervene.

Here is something that I found particularly interesting and heavy: men of European origin who die by suicide have no particularly serious social challenges or health, but traditionally have male features such as a narrow feeling of self, a range of limited interests, to be closed to feelings and less desire to articulate vulnerability. Learn more of Olivia on how this problem has evolved and on the solutions that researchers are looking at.

Bike and pedestrian deaths increased spectacularly

Between 2013 and 2023, the death rate of pedestrians and cyclists in the United States went from 2.1 deaths per 100,000 people to 2.9, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics. These changes were particularly concentrated in the Midwest, the South and the West, without any major change observed in the Northeast, where the rates are the lowest.

The brief federal report did not separate data from pedestrians and cyclists. But for those on foot, there may be signs of good news. The Highway Safety Association Highway Governors, which follows the deaths of pedestrians traffic, found that after years of increasing death, there have been small reductions in the number of pedestrian deaths in 2023 and 2024. In 2024, more than 7,100 pedestrians died on American roads, which is around 4% less than the previous year, but almost 20% higher.

Eight babies were born from “IVF to three parents”

Ten years ago, British decision -makers gave the green light to a pioneering reproduction technology intended to save children from birth with types of rare but sometimes fatal diseases caused by certain genetic mutations in mitochondria. The method involved combining not only the genes of a mother and a father to produce an embryo, but also a little DNA of a third person.

Yesterday, the team in England, which carried out the technique reported that eight healthy babies were born so far, stressing that the approach reduced the risk of children inherited from changes causing the disease in the DNA pieces contained in our mitochondria. The results have long been expected as the first big test of the approach. Andrew Joseph and Megan Molteni of Stat wrote on what it means.

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