Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered annual testosterone-deficiency screening for all active-duty and reserve personnel aged 30 and older. Testing will become part of the military’s Periodic Health Assessment, while younger service members may request it voluntarily. Hegseth says any resulting testosterone replacement therapy will remain optional. The July 15 Pentagon memorandum declares the requirement…
America’s Childhood Obesity Crisis: You Can’t Inject Your Way Out of a Cultural Problem
America’s childhood obesity problem didn’t appear overnight, and it certainly won’t disappear because of a trendy new injection. Yet that seems to be where the conversation is heading. A growing debate is unfolding around the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) initiative and the increasing push to use GLP-1 drugs—medications like Ozempic and Wegovy—to…
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