CDC Recognizes Detransitioning As Official Condition, Opens Door To Medical Treatment For Mutilated Kids

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in October will start recognizing detransitioning — reversing gender “transition” mutilation — in official diagnosis codes for purposes of insurance billing and data collection.

Vice President J.D. Vance last week called for the jailing of medical professionals fraudulently using medical billing codes to get insurance to cover the castration and genital mutilation of children claiming to be “transgender.” But on the other side of that issue are the thousands of young people who were brutally maimed by predator doctors and have little recourse to try to reverse some of the interventions.

The new diagnoses and codes will help provide needed documentation of the harms of transgender procedures and facilitate an avenue of recovery for these young people. The CDC update comes after medical watchdog group Do No Harm helped the CDC establish the codes.

“The codes we proposed, and the CDC has now released, will significantly enhance and refine patient care to ensure those desisting from gender dysphoria are properly recognized,” said Kurt Miceli, MD, chief medical officer at Do No Harm. “Likewise, giving detransitioners visibility in the medical system will help them get the medical attention they need and open the door for proper coverage and real-world research into the impact of sex-rejecting interventions. For too long our medical system has allowed the plight of detransitioners to be invisible; these new codes will give them light and help them achieve the top-notch care they deserve.”

There has been an “official blindness to the very existence of detransitioners,” Do No Harm stated in an article addressing the need for medical codes for those who want to try to reverse their injuries. While many of the interventions are irreversible, like voice changes, fertility, and especially mutilation surgeries, there is a degree to which some can be undone to give the detransitioners something closer to a normal life. (Read more from “CDC Recognizes Detransitioning As Official Condition, Opens Door To Medical Treatment For Mutilated Kids” HERE)

Tick-Borne Meat Allergy Leaves Restaurants On Wealthy Island Scrambling

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Restaurants on Martha’s Vineyard are adapting their menus to keep dining safe amid a rising number of alpha-gal syndrome cases — a tick-borne illness that causes a meat allergy.

A total of 416 positive alpha-gal tests have been reported on Martha’s Vineyard as of June 2026, according to N Magazine. Martha’s Vineyard previously reported 742 positive alpha-gal tests in 2025, compared with only two positive cases in 2020. Alpha-gal syndrome can cause an allergy to meat from hoofed animals or to dairy, according to N Magazine and the Vineyard Gazette, respectively.

Tick epidemiologist Lea Hamner said some people are unable to eat red meat, but can eat dairy products. Others can react to fumes from red meat or dairy, according to the Vineyard Gazette. People might even react to carrageenan, a sugar that is derived from seaweed and is used as a thickener. The disease, which is transmitted through lone star tick bites, also creates allergies to some medications, the Boston Globe reported.

Symptoms may vary among people, with some experiencing digestive discomfort and others experiencing anaphylaxis. As a result, restaurants on Martha’s Vineyard are working to eliminate alpha-gal allergens from their menus and protect customers.

Charlie Granquist, the chef at Slough Farm, told the Vineyard Gazette he washes cookware between uses to avoid cross-contamination and has made necessary substitutes to avoid alpha-gal allergens. (Read more from “Tick-Borne Meat Allergy Leaves Restaurants On Wealthy Island Scrambling” HERE)

Cop Allegedly Fired For Using Flock Camera To Run Her Ex’s License Plate 166 Times

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A female police officer in South Carolina was fired on Aug. 3 after she allegedly used a Flock camera to run her ex-significant other’s license plate over 100 times.

Ellie Anna Hammond, 24, was fired from the Maudlin Police Department (MPD) following allegations of misconduct between March and July, according to documents from the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy cited by KOCO. Hammond allegedly ran her ex-romantic partner’s license plate 166 times during this time period, claiming she was performing a warrant check, traffic infraction, and welfare check, which proved not true, as the same documents indicate.

She has not been criminally charged in connection with the incident, and an MPD spokesperson told KOCO they would not comment further on her termination as it was a “personnel matter.”

Hammond joined the police force in June 2024 when she was hired as part of the Uniform Patrol division, according to the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy. She completed her training and passed a psychological evaluation at the time.

The incident follows an Aug. 4 incident in which the Winona Police Department in Minnesota announced that all eight of the city’s Flock cameras had allegedly been stolen. Officers discovered the poles chopped down and discarded in nearby weeds, while the cameras remained missing. Flock cameras were also apparently vandalized in July in Ashland County, Ohio, according to FOX 8. (Read more from “Cop Allegedly Fired For Using Flock Camera To Run Her Ex’s License Plate 166 Times” HERE)

Mother Barred from Child’s Graduation after Pushing Back on Gender Curriculum

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Portland, Oregon, mother Allison Roberts filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Portland Public Schools and her children’s elementary school after allegedly facing retaliation over her opposition to their gender curriculum.

According to the Liberty Justice Center, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of Roberts, she initially expressed concern last year over Meriwether Lewis Elementary School’s decision to repaint its traditional rainbow pride flag into an “Intersex-Inclusive Progress” variant to include support for racial and transgender ideology.

Though Roberts supported “being immersed” in Portland’s gay community, she felt that the new flag was “an overtly political symbol that promotes values contradictory to her Christian faith,” specifically due to its promotion of transgenderism.

Before she took any action, she discovered an “identity flower” assignment given to her 11-year-old child that asked students to identify and discuss their gender identity with classmates and teachers.

Roberts alleged that she received no prior notice of this assignment and requested a meeting with the school’s principal. After receiving what she described as an unsatisfactory response from the school, Roberts wrote an open letter to the community against the school’s policies, which she distributed on a public sidewalk outside school property. (Read more from “Mother Barred from Child’s Graduation after Pushing Back on Gender Curriculum” HERE)

Scientist Says Screens are Creating a Stupid Generation: “Our Children are Less Cognitively Capable”

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Jared Cooney Horvath is on a mission. In the wake of global campaigns for smartphone bans in schools and social media restrictions for under-16s, the neuroscientist wants to raise the alarm about educational technology in classrooms.

A former teacher, Horvath believes the use of screens and digital tools in schools is undermining how children learn and develop. “This might be one of the hardest truths our generation has to face,” he writes in his book, The Digital Delusion.

“Our children are less cognitively capable than we were at their age,” he says. “For nearly two centuries, the west experienced steady generational progress. Each new cohort of children grew up, on average, healthier, happier, and better educated than the last. Until now.”

Starting around the year 2000, something changed. “Across the west, IQ scores began to fall – even as time spent in school kept rising,” writes Horvath. Scores in international tests started to drop. Why? “The answer lies in the meteoric rise of educational technology.” . . .

“We’ve been making some incredible strides on the screen-based childhood stuff which even two years ago, I did not think was going to happen as fast as it did,” he said. “But it’s not just about getting rid of screens for entertainment. It’s about reducing them as much as possible for academic learning as well if we want our kids to have deep transferrable knowledge in our heads.” (Read more from “Scientist Says Screens are Creating a Stupid Generation: “Our Children are Less Cognitively Capable” HERE)

Fauci was Privately Informed about Questions over COVID-19 Vaccines and Miscarriages, New Texts Show

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Dr. Anthony Fauci was privately informed in January 2021 that the initial studies on COVID-19 vaccination did not include women in the first trimester of pregnancy because of miscarriage risk, according to new texts released by Sens. Rand Paul and Ron Johnson.

“I am corrected on pregnancy studies. Initial Studies [sic] avoid vaccination in first trimester due to possible fever and higher rates of miscarriage in first trimester,” Dr. John Mascola texted Fauci on Jan. 25, 2021.

Mascola was serving as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) Vaccine Research Center at the time.

After Mascola’s message, Fauci said there was a theoretical risk that COVID-19 vaccinations during pregnancy could cause miscarriages due to the potential for a fever.

“Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester,” Fauci wrote.

Cytokines storm refers to a severe autoimmune response in which the body produces too many peptides signaling infection, leading the body to attack itself. (Read more from “Fauci was Privately Informed about Questions over COVID-19 Vaccines and Miscarriages, New Texts Show” HERE)

‘Inclusion’ Study Busts Sexist Hollywood After Just a 3rd of Speaking Roles in 2025’s Top Films Went to Women

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The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative is calling out Hollywood after a forensic analysis said just one-third of speaking roles went to women in 2025’s top films.

The study’s author, Dr. Stacy L. Smith, looked at Hollywood’s top films between 2017 and 2025 and found that speaking roles in the film industry’s top films are consistently at around one-third for women. In 2023, for instance, Smith calculated that 31.7 percent of speaking roles went to female characters. That number rose a bot for 2024 to 33.6 percent. And the highest year was the 34.6 percent seen in 2022, The Wrap reported.

“Nineteen years of data show that change is possible, but they also show how fragile that progress can be,” Smith said on her preface. “This is not the first time this report has shown that meaningful gains are followed by a return to business as usual. At a moment when the industry is redefining its future, inclusion can be part of the solution, not a casualty of contraction. The question is no longer whether the industry can change. It’s whether it will.”

The most speaking roles for women were in comedies, with 38.7 percent. In animated films, women made up only 28.6 percent of speaking roles. In action films it was 30.4 percent, Smith added.

“While we’ve seen pockets of progress for women on screen, the pace of change has been slow. Year after year, many of the same patterns remain,” Smith said. “Incremental improvement is important for achieving meaningful transformation, but after nearly 2 decades of research and advocacy from many groups, it is clear that the industry is content to wait for change to find them rather than pursuing solutions.” (Read more from “‘Inclusion’ Study Busts Sexist Hollywood After Just a 3rd of Speaking Roles in 2025’s Top Films Went to Women” HERE)

Over One-Third Of US Counties Are ‘Maternity Care Deserts,’ New Report Finds

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More than one-third of U.S. counties have significant maternity care access gaps, according to a March of Dimes report released Tuesday.

The report found that 34.6% of U.S. counties are currently “maternity care deserts,” home to 2.4 million women of reproductive age and where 149,000 infants are born each year. Women who live in such “deserts”— many of which are in rural areas of the country — travel roughly three times farther to obtain labor and delivery services on average than those living in counties with broader maternity care access.

An additional 3.4 million women and 209,000 infants presently live in U.S. counties that have “low or moderate” maternity care access, according to the report. Meanwhile, over half of U.S. counties do not have a hospital with labor and delivery services, which impacts nearly 370,000 births per year.

“Across the country, families continue to face unnecessary barriers to maternity care with shifting healthcare and policy decisions threatening to widen gaps and weaken essential services,” March of Dimes President and CEO Cindy Rahman said in a statement. “Now is the time to reimagine what maternity care can and should be by building a system that creates healthier beginnings, stronger communities, and better outcomes for generations to come.”

The report also found that obstetric clinician shortages are worse in rural regions of the U.S., where almost 58% of counties do not have obstetric clinicians, compared with about 19% of urban counties. Moreover, an estimated 96 publicly reported labor and delivery unit closures occurred across 35 U.S. states between January 2024 to May 2026, March of Dimes reported. (Read more from “Over One-Third Of US Counties Are ‘Maternity Care Deserts,’ New Report Finds” HERE)

Scientists Create Chewing Gum that Could Protect High-Risk People from Mouth and Throat Cancer

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Building on previous work creating a chewing gum made from bean gum and containing a naturally antiviral protein FRIL, researchers tested oral samples of patients for three microbes associated with cancer.

These included human papillomavirus (HPV) and two bacterial species, Porphyromonas gingivalis (Pg) and Fusobacterium nucleatum (Fn). . .

The bean gum extracts reduced HPV by 93% in saliva samples and 80% in oral rinse samples.

When protegrin, an antimicrobial peptide that kills harmful bacteria, was added to the gum, a single dose reduced Pg and Fn levels to nearly zero.

Notably, the addition of protegrin also didn’t affect beneficial bacteria found in the mouth, contrasting with radiation therapy, which reduces good bacteria and increases disease-causing yeast. (Read more from “Scientists Create Chewing Gum that Could Protect High-Risk People from Mouth and Throat Cancer” HERE)

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People who Avoid 3 Key Things Live Nearly 13 Years Longer Without Dementia: Study

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. . .Three simple characteristics in middle age likely play a major role in cognitive health as you get older, a new study suggests.

It found that people who check these three boxes lived about 30 years without dementia — compared to 17 years for people who didn’t.

The researchers found that people who avoided smoking, high blood pressure (a.k.a hypertension) and diabetes had nearly 13 more years without developing dementia than those who did have these three risk factors.

“Our findings argue that people need to actively avert these factors in midlife as a strategy for preserving brain health,” Dr. Josef Coresh, the study’s senior investigator and director at NYU Langone’s Optimal Aging Institute, said. “Discovering new ways to delay dementia is crucial with 42 percent of Americans at risk for developing the condition at any time after age 55.”

While avoiding these elements is associated with more time without cognitive decline, some populations are more at risk than others. (Read more from “People who Avoid 3 Key Things Live Nearly 13 Years Longer Without Dementia: Study” HERE)