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Researchers surveyed 153 transgender youths receiving gender-affirming care at a specialty clinic, and even in this relatively "out" population, nearly half reported intentionally hiding their gender identity from a health care provider outside the clinic.

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Keywords: Transgender, Gender Identity, nonbinary, Gender Affirmation

MD Anderson receives more than $20 million in CPRIT funding for research, clinical translation, prevention and recruitment.

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Keywords: CPRIT Awards

New research shows that both strands of microRNA cooperate to drive growth and aggressiveness across cancer types, suggesting that these molecules may be more central in deadly cancers than previously thought.

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Keywords: Kidney Cancer, Microrna, Cancer

As out-of-pocket costs go up for drugs for the neurologic disorders Alzheimer’s disease, peripheral neuropathy and Parkinson’s disease, people are less likely to take the drugs as often as their doctors prescribed, according to a study funded by the American Academy of Neurology and published in the February 19, 2020, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

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Recognizing a need for evidence-based recommendations to guide molecular testing in the management of patients with cancer, the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and three collaborating societies are developing a clinical guideline for testing DNA mismatch repair (MMR) and microsatellite instability (MSI) status in patients with a range of cancer types.

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Keywords: Pathology, Clinical Guidelines, CaP, College of American Pathologists, DNA mismatch repair, microsatellite instability, Laboratory Medicine

Thomas Shanahan, chief hospital executive, Raritan Bay Medical Center, William DiStanislao, vice president, Operations, Raritan Bay Medical Center, gather with students from Middlesex County Vocational Technical School.

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Keywords: Raritan Bay Medical Center, Middlesex County, Healthcare