"The Texas attorney general has secured an unusual settlement over child transgender care that compels Texas Children’s Hospital to create the nation’s first ever 'detransition clinic' in addition to paying the state $10 million."

texastribune.org/2026/05/15/te…

#healthcare #hospitals #lgbtq #transgender #ChildrensHealth #texas

"A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s sweeping demands for confidential transgender patient information from Rhode Island’s largest hospital that provides gender-affirming care to minors."

apnews.com/article/transgender…

#healthcare #lgbtq #transgender #ChildrensHealth #courts #DOJ

"According to a new evidence review conducted by the Vaccine Integrity Project, an initiative of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (publisher of CIDRAP News), HPV vaccines have reduced the risk of cervical cancer by 80% in women vaccinated by age 16 and by 66% in those vaccinated after 16."

cidrap.umn.edu/human-papilloma…

#PublicHealth #HPV #vaccines #immunizations #CervicalCancer #prevention #PrimaryCare #ChildrensHealth

"The federal government is escalating efforts to seek private medical data for children undergoing gender-affirming care, as at least one hospital faces the first known criminal probe of its kind."

19thnews.org/2026/05/gender-af…

#healthcare #lgbtq #transgender #ChildrensHealth #courts #DOJ

"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recent authorization of the first fruit-flavored e-cigarettes approved for sale to adults 21 and over in the U.S. is raising concerns from pediatrician groups and advocacy organizations about the potential impact on minors."

abcnews.com/US/fdas-authorizat…

#PublicHealth #tobacco #vaping #FDA #pediatricians #ChildrensHealth

"Recess isn’t just a fun break for grade schoolers. It’s crucial to good health and good grades for kids of all ages.

That’s the message from a leading pediatricians group, which just released the first new guidance in 13 years about this unstructured time at school and how it needs to be protected."

apnews.com/article/recess-amer…

#PublicHealth #schools #education #recess #PhysicalActivity #exercise #obesity #ChildrensHealth