But while treating gender incongruence with puberty blockers is a relatively recent application, these drugs have been used onchildrensince the 1980s for slowing down puberty if it happens too early or too quickly. Currently, there's sufficient evidence to show the drugs are safe and well-tolera...
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Moreover, during adulthood, female gender is a major independent risk factor for SCD independent of genotype or the location of the mutation within the gene [21–23]. In contrast, before puberty, the incidence of arrhythmias is higher in boys than in girls [24]. Several observations suggest ...
administering or dispensing any puberty blocker or hormone if the treatment is meant to "enable a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex" or treat "purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor's sex and asserted...
Nobody knew I was a twin until I was born and the dead twin followed me out. It had died around 10 weeks but had remained with me the whole time as I was blocking the way. I had, even as a child before I knew about this, a strange fascination with things being in pairs and tw...
be used for several days for best result. Prolonged therapy with this drug causes the adrenal glands to atrophy and stop producing cortisol, so when Prednisone is discontinued after a period of prolonged therapy, the dose of Prednisone must be tapered to allow the adrenal glands time to recover...
Jazz has been taking the dangerous hormone signal blocking drug Lupron since he was eleven and recently at 14 had his testicles measured only to find out Lupron wasn’t completely stopping his normal development. He’s facing a lot of pressure to begin taking estrogen to cause his body to ...
Drug Can be used recreationally or for research. Cannabis is used as a recreational drug in some regions. 2 Medicine Intended to diagnose, treat, or prevent diseases. Vaccines are medicines that prevent infectious diseases. 2 Drug A drug is any substance that causes a change in an organism'...
What still stands out, particularly, is that some of the contributing cancer research centers started looking into using the body’s immunity. This was made in the mid-1970’s. What happened, is that the drug companies cracked down. Because upper level Cancer Institute bureaucrats were “in ...
Vismodegib acts as an SMO antagonist to prevent the activation of GLI1 and GLI2 transcription factor, blocking the signaling cascade. Absorption Vismodegib appears to have a nonlinear pharmacokinetic profile following daily oral dosing, and a steady state is achieved within 7 days. A dose ...