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Gender-affirming care and social support can help trans youth thrive. Jonathan Kirn/The Image Bank via Getty Images

February 25, 2022

Transgender youth on puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones have lower rates of depression and suicidal thoughts, a new study finds

Diana Tordoff, University of Washington and Arin Collin, University of Washington

A wealth of evidence supports the protective mental health effects of gender-affirming care, despite ongoing legislation that asserts otherwise.

Our obsession with looking and feeling younger has only grown since the 20th century. Sorbis/ Shutterstock

May 14, 2020

How 20th-century ‘rejuvenation’ techniques gave rise to the modern anti-ageing industry

James Stark, University of Leeds

At-home electrical ‘therapies’, hormone treatments, and skin ‘foods’ were just some of the popular treatments people used to look and feel younger.

Advances in breast cancer research in the last decade has introduced new treatment regimes.

January 31, 2017

How the landscape has changed in the search for a cure for breast cancer

Ronald Wasike, Aga Khan University

The chances of surviving breast cancer are improving everyday due to advanced research and new treatment techniques.

It’s not for doctors, researchers or other commentators to decide whether the risks of menopausal hormone therapy outweigh the benefits for individual women. racorn/Shutterstock

November 26, 2015

Here’s what you need to know about menopausal hormone therapy and cancer risk

Emily Banks, Australian National University

The use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) doubles the risk of breast cancer in menopausal women. But that doesn’t mean it has no place in alleviating moderate to severe symptoms of menopause.

Gender dysphoria is when a person’s subjectively felt gender is incongruent with her or his biological sex. Purple Sherbet Photography/Flickr

March 4, 2015

Children with gender dysphoria deserve better from the law

Malcolm Smith, Queensland University of Technology

The legal steps they’re required to take for gender dysphoria treatment places an unnecessary burden on children and their families.

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