LGBTQ Nation

Air Force guidelines on ousting trans troops include trials to investigate their gender identities

The Air Force has issued guidance on how transgender Airmen and Guardians will be involuntarily discharged, making it the first branch to provide detailed instructions on removing transgender ...
insider.si.edu

Smithsonian Forms Task Force To Develop Guidelines for Human Remains Collection

The Smithsonian has formed a task force to develop a policy that addresses the future of human remains held within its museums’ collections. This task force will promote respectful engagement with ...
CNN

Task force updates guidance for breast cancer screenings for women 40 and older

Women are now advised to get a mammogram every other year starting at age 40 and until age 74, according to new recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force. The USPSTF, a volunteer ...
CNN

Doctors should intervene to help children with obesity, task force draft says, but it doesn’t recommend surgery or meds

Nearly 20% of all children in the US have what’s considered to be a high body mass index, the measure that practitioners use to determine whether a person has obesity. New draft guidelines released ...
NPR

If you're 40, it's time to start mammograms, according to new guidelines

Breast cancer is very treatable when caught early, and mammograms, which are X-ray images of breasts, are a reliable screening test to detect it. Now, new draft recommendations released Tuesday from ...
SpaceNews

Space Force to release guidelines for the use of commercial satellite services

Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations, speaks Sept. 13, 2023, at the Global Aerospace Summit organized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Credit: SpaceNews WASHINGTON — U.S. Chief of Space ...
Fred Hutch

Breast cancer screening guidelines change — again

Oops, they did it again — that is, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force once more changed their screening recommendations for breast cancer. In 2016, the USPSTF ...