The statement followed a report in The Times that a federal health official had urged the removal of age minimums from treatment guidelines for transgender minors.
So-called top surgery performed on a 14-year-old in California in 2015. The most common surgical procedures by far for transgender minors are breast reductions or mastectomies.
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will spend additional weeks in orbit as teams on the ground study malfunctioning thrusters on the Starliner spacecraft.
The Starliner spacecraft docked to the Harmony module of the International Space Station, orbiting 262 miles above Egyptβs Mediterranean coast on June 13.
Hoau-Yan Wangβs work underpinned research into a diagnostic test for Alzheimerβs disease and simufilam, a drug in advanced clinical trials made by Cassava Sciences in Austin, Texas.
Across every age group, a vast majority of Americans who were hospitalized for Covid did not receive one of the shots offered last fall, according to data presented at a meeting of the C.D.C.
Plaintiffs and the company vowed to renegotiate but the talks will be challenging after the court struck down a provision the Sacklers had insisted on in exchange for $6 billion.
In exchange for paying up to $6 billion, the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma in Stamford, Conn., can be shielded from all future Purdue opioid lawsuits.
Half of the water flowing through regional river basins starts in so-called ephemeral streams. Last year, the Supreme Court curtailed federal protections for these waterways.
A riparian area in Wells, Nev., in the northeastern part of the state. In the West, ephemeral streams flow only for four to 46 days per year, on average, but contribute up to 79 percent of the downstream river flow, new research has found.
A visualization of the orbit of (415029) 2011 UL21, a near-Earth object that completes 11 revolutions around the sun in almost the exact same amount of time in which Earth completes 34 revolutions (i.e., 34 years), creating this pattern when plotting the asteroidβs location relative to Earth.
An illustration of several dingoes, from the 1863 book βThe Mammals of Australia.β A recent paper suggested that the wild dogs may have been trusted companions of the First Australians.
Newly released emails from an influential group issuing transgender medical guidelines indicate that U.S. health officials lobbied to remove age minimums for surgery in minors because of concerns over political fallout.
Staff for Adm. Rachel Levine, an assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, urged the World Professional Association for Transgender Health to drop proposed age limits from the groupβs guidelines.
Mike Bettwy, a government meteorologist who focuses on potential threats from space weather, says that we are more prepared than ever β and that forecasting is only getting better.
Mike Bettwy, the operations chief for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationβs Space Weather Prediction Center. βThe sun is definitely entering its more active phase,β he said.
Public employees in West Virginia who took the drugs lost weight and were healthier, and some are despondent that the state is canceling a program to help pay for them.
Dr. Joanna Bailey said most of her patients in Pineville, W.Va. who need weight loss drugs donβt have insurance to cover the cost and canβt afford the sticker price.
Hansa Ahir, left, who salvages recyclable waste for a living in Ahmedabad, India, bought an insurance policy to cover her income on days when heat makes it dangerous to work.
Surgeon General Vivek Murthyβs announcement follows years of recommendations by top health officials to view firearm deaths through the lens of health rather than politics.
The Changβe-6 missionβs sample, which might hold clues about the origins of the moon and Earth, is the latest achievement of Chinaβs lunar exploration program.
With the sea creatures making up a growing share of illegal animal seizures around the world, U.S. officials are working to overcome struggles to safely house them.
A colony of confiscated coral in a back room of the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, which has taken in about 1,000 illegally trafficked animals since 2010.
Though still rare, social workers in animal hospitals are growing in their ranks.
Claire Johnson, a veterinary social worker, left, comforted Zorro, a 16-year-old cockapoo, as he was prepared for euthanasia at MedVet, a 24-hour pet care facility in Chicago.
An Austrian forest ranger picked up the rock in 1976. Decades later, scientists discovered the objectβs origin story while digging through old photos.
People have grown more attached to their pets β and more willing to spend money on them β turning animal medicine into a high-tech industry worth billions.
Heather Massey of Carlton, Ga., with her dog, Lunabear. She is still paying off a bill for scans and care six years after her previous dog, Ladybird, was diagnosed with brain cancer.
A self-test for H.I.V. in Harare, Zimbabwe. The every-six-months injection was found to provide better protection than the current oral drug for whatβs called pre-exposure prophylaxis, also taken as a daily pill.
In heat waves, chemicals like formaldehyde and ozone can form more readily in the air, according to researchers driving mobile labs in New York City this week.
By studying bees and their honey near decomposing human tissue, researchers at George Mason University hope to give crime scene investigators a new tool for finding the hidden dead.
Researchers at George Mason Universityβs new βbody farmβ in Northern Virginia hope to use bees to draw up a formula for human decomposition that investigators can use to narrow a search for human remains.
Dr. Hans Klingemann is the chief science officer at ImmunityBio, which develops immunotherapy drugs for people. He also explores whether the treatments might someday prolong dogsβ lives.
Macaques, reeling from a hurricane, learned by necessity to get along, a study found. Itβs one of the first to suggest that animals can adapt to environmental upheaval with social changes.
Agricultural insecticides were a key factor, according to a study focused on the Midwest, though researchers emphasized the importance of climate change and habitat loss.
George Woodwell, center, at the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, which he founded in 1985 to study global climate change. It was later renamed the Woodwell Climate Research Center.
There has long been anecdotal evidence of the wormy creatures taking to the air, but videos recorded in Madagascar at last prove the animalsβ acrobatics.
An amateur brewer in Utah gathered rare figs and a strain of yeast from 850 B.C. to make a sour, fruity concoction inspired by ancient Egyptian recipes.
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