Politics

NEWS FLASH California Appropriations Committee Advances Bill To Protect Patients From Ex-Gay Therapy | In a party line vote, the California State Assembly’s Appropriations Committee passed SB 1172, a bill that would make California the first state in the nation to limit harmful ex-gay therapy as well as prohibit anyone under the age of 18 from undergoing sexual orientation change efforts. Representatives from a coalition of LGBT groups told the committee today that the bill “will literally save lives.” The anti-gay National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) had launched a spending campaign to block SB 1172, falsely claiming that “reparative therapy actually works,” even though one of the most prominent studies used to support ex-gay therapy was just disavowed by its main researcher, who then apologized to the gay community. The bill will now head back to the Senate for concurrence on the amendments, then to the full Assembly floor, and finally to Gov. J...

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 11, 2012 Dr. Philip Werthman, Director of the Center for Male Reproductive Medicine in Los Angeles, warns of the side effects of testosterone therapy. As a male fertility expert, he has first hand experience with the dangers that are caused by the over diagnosis of low testosterone. Testosterone, the molecule that is being touted as a key ingredient in the fountain of youth for men, has recently hit prime time. Late night television commercials ask men over age 40 if they have the symptoms of a newly-coined condition- low T and anti-aging clinics are advertising everywhere that men look. While certainly testosterone levels decline with age, some doctors and pharmaceutical companies seem to be pushing men, even with reasonably normal testosterone levels, into using steroids with the promise it will cure their ills. For men with low testosterone levels who are symptomatic, this is appropriate treatment. For everyone, taking testosterone can be ...