{"id":76245,"date":"2026-07-18T10:54:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/doctors-question-evidence-behind-pentagon-plan-for-testosterone-screening\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T10:54:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:54:57","slug":"doctors-question-evidence-behind-pentagon-plan-for-testosterone-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/doctors-question-evidence-behind-pentagon-plan-for-testosterone-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors question evidence behind Pentagon plan for testosterone screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Hegseth announced that soldiers aged 30 and older in the US military will be screened for low testosterone <\/p>\n<p>The US defense secretary, \u2060Pete Hegseth, this week ordered annual testosterone-deficiency screening for active-duty and reserve service members aged 30 and older, which he says will help to maintain military readiness.<\/p>\n<p>But many medical professionals warn it might do nothing of the sort and instead could increase service members\u2019 risk of infertility or other consequences if testosterone is prescribed inappropriately.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/18\/us-military-testosterone-screening-doctors\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Hegseth announced that soldiers aged 30 and older in the US military will be screened for low testosterone The US defense secretary, \u2060Pete Hegseth, this week ordered annual testosterone-deficiency screening for active-duty and reserve service members aged 30 and older, which he says will help to maintain military readiness. But many medical professionals warn &#8230; <a title=\"Doctors question evidence behind Pentagon plan for testosterone screening\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/doctors-question-evidence-behind-pentagon-plan-for-testosterone-screening\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Doctors question evidence behind Pentagon plan for testosterone screening\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}