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2026-03-09 22:40:10 UTC

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@nprofile…yzzc @nprofile…etvl
🤷🏽‍♀️ Social media platforms and their algorithms can put people in bubbles. Some of those Texas families whose kids died from measles didn't want to vaccinate their other kids afterwards.

2026-03-09 18:31:02 UTC

She’s hearing from people sick with the virus, as well as their caregivers, that “measles is so much worse than what they expected.”
“A number of them clearly said if they had known, they would have vaccinated themselves and their children against measles, but they didn’t realize how bad it was,” Nolen said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/measles-worse-expected-utah-officials-say-rcna262087
#PublicHealth #measles #vaccines #immunizations #prevention #outbreak #utah #ChildrensHealth #PrimaryCare

2026-03-09 15:03:02 UTC

"Casey Means, President Donald Trump’s pick for surgeon general, has achieved an unlikely feat: uniting vaccine skeptics and mainstream medical advocates against her nomination.
Activists in both camps are now urging senators to vote her down."
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/06/trumps-surgeon-general-pick-is-taking-heat-from-both-advocates-and-opponents-of-vaccines-00815928
#PublicHealth #SurgeonGeneral #vaccines #immunizations #MAHA #covid #CDC #USpol

2026-03-08 02:23:00 UTC

"Now Liu is ready to take on a world that quickly fell in love with her quirky style, otherworldly talent, and, most notably, her relentless joy. Whether she won Olympic gold or not—she did…twice—she was going to have a good time, because Liu skates for something you can’t get from an accolade; something that comes from passion for her sport and love of herself, her music, her style, her art, and all of it on her own terms."
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/alysa-liu-olympic-gold-teen-vogue-cover-interview-2026
#aapi #aanhpi #olympics #athletes #immigrant

2026-03-04 22:57:00 UTC

"There are 14 active measles cases at the detention center on the Fort Bliss Army base and 112 people are being isolated, said U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, an El Paso Democrat whose district includes the facility, known as Camp East Montana. It will remain closed to visitors and attorneys until March 19 or March 20."
https://apnews.com/article/camp-east-montana-immigration-detention-measles-7c70b887234439f96af405f2f16953c9
#PublicHealth #immigration #ICE #DHS #detention #measles #vaccines #immunizations #texas

2026-03-04 16:03:05 UTC

"A rise in rectal cancer rates is driving an increase in colorectal cancer diagnoses in people younger than 65, according to a report published Monday from the American Cancer Society.
Colorectal cancer rates in people under 65 are surging, with nearly half (45%) of new diagnoses occurring in this age group, up from 27% in 1995. At the same time, colorectal cancer rates are falling in people 65 and older."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/rectal-cancer-rates-are-rising-us-driving-increase-illness-younger-adu-rcna261297
#PublicHealth #ColonCancer #prevention #screening #USPSTF

2026-03-02 16:03:01 UTC

"It’s unsurprising that someone with Mr. Epstein’s wealth and elite connections would receive white-glove service from concierge doctors and V.I.P. treatment at major hospitals. But the new documents reveal how some of his doctors bent or broke the ethical rules of their profession."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/us/jeffrey-epstein-doctors.html
#healthcare #physicians #concierge #epstein #HumanTrafficking #predators #pedophiles #bioethics #morals

2026-02-28 02:23:00 UTC

"Dr. Oz’s new proposal would allow one kind of health plan to raise the annual deductible to more than $15,000 for an individual and $31,000 for a family; those are much higher than current Obamacare plans. The individual deductible would be eight times the average for someone with job-based insurance."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/health/obamacare-health-insurance-rollbacks.html
#healthcare #ACA #obamacare #insurance #deductibles #CMS #CostsOfCare

2026-02-27 17:55:01 UTC

"The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is scheduled to meet next month and plans to discuss Covid vaccine injuries, as well as potentially vote on recommendations, according to a Federal Register notice for the meeting posted Wednesday."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/rfk-jrs-cdc-panel-discuss-covid-vaccine-injuries-upcoming-meeting-rcna260694
#PublicHealth #CDC #ACIP #vaccines #immunizations #covid #ChildrensHealth #ACOG

2026-02-27 00:29:06 UTC

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@nprofile…mj05
Still masking here, but I think it would be great if there was a simple, preventive injection where only one or two doses would dramatically reduce your risk of catching measles.

2026-02-26 22:57:00 UTC

"Senate leaders are urging the Department of Defense to prioritize the purchase of generic drugs manufactured in the United States, warning that the country’s overreliance on foreign factories poses an 'existential risk' to the military."
https://www.propublica.org/article/senators-warn-hegseth-foreign-drug-manufacturers
#PublicHealth #healthcare #PrescriptionDrugs #FDA #military

2026-02-26 17:55:04 UTC

"As U.S. hospitals face an increasing risk of encountering measles, and pressure to immediately spot it, health care workers face an unusual barrier: Many don’t know what it looks like."
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/measles-outbreak-cdc-carolina-sc-nc-vaccines/
#PublicHealth #measles #hospitals #clinics #vaccines #immunizations #ChildrensHealth #RuralHealth #MedEd #UME #GME #physicians #nurses

2026-02-26 02:23:00 UTC

"Dentists wrote more than 2.3 million prescriptions last year for an antibiotic called clindamycin, whose label has carried a black box warning for more than four decades, due to its high rate of life-threatening complications."
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-stewardship/dentists-still-write-millions-prescriptions-year-antibiotic-life
#PublicHealth #dentists #antibiotics #dental #OralHealth #overtreatment #IDmastodon

2026-02-25 16:03:02 UTC

"But Trump’s mass deportation agenda is taking a toll in this southern swath of a very red state, several business owners said. While the construction industry is the most directly affected, other parts of the region’s economy also are feeling the pinch, including restaurants patronized by workers, real estate agents and some retailers."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-trump-vote-immigration-raids-rio-grande-valley-workers-rcna259790
#PublicHealth #immigrant #immigration #ICE #DHS #deportation #voting #elections #USpol

2026-02-22 17:55:01 UTC

"By last year, the sum — including radio and TV commercials, billboards, and print and digital ads — had reached an estimated $201 million, and total spending on direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs topped $9 billion, by MediaRadar’s calculations."
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/direct-to-consumer-advertising-big-pharma-seniors/
#healthcare #PhRMA #PrescriptionDrugs #advertising #marketing #medicare #aging #business

2026-02-21 17:55:01 UTC

"In the span of just six weeks between December and January, six people died while detained by ICE in Texas — three of them at Camp East Montana. The deadly period began with a 48-year-old Guatemalan, Francisco Gaspar-Andres, who ICE said died on Dec. 3 of liver and kidney failure after being hospitalized for more than two weeks following detention."
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/19/ice-detention-deaths-texas-east-montana-dilley-campos/
#PublicHealth #immigrant #immigration #ICE #DHS #detention #healthcare #texas

2026-02-20 22:57:00 UTC

"Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended President Donald Trump’s executive order spurring the domestic production of the weed killer glyphosate, as his Make America Healthy Again movement reels from the president’s embrace of the chemical they despise."
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/19/trump-kennedy-glyphosate-maha-midterms-rfk-jr.html
#PublicHealth #glyphosate #food #environment #chemicals #MAHA #USpol

2026-02-17 22:57:00 UTC

"Five months after Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy invited Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to appear before the powerful health committee he chairs, the hearing has not happened, and the senator continues to say there is no date set for it to take place."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/five-months-sen-bill-cassidy-asked-rfk-jr-testify-still-hasnt-happened-rcna258798
#healthcare #PublicHealth #HHS #vaccines #immunizations #CDC #ACIP #MAHA #UScongress #USpol

2026-02-10 02:23:01 UTC

"Two cases of tuberculosis and 18 cases of COVID-19 were recently identified at a massive immigration detention center in El Paso, according to city officials and a Democratic congresswoman.
El Paso’s U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar disclosed the infections after her Friday visit to Camp East Montana, the 5,000-bed tent facility the federal government hastily built last year on the Fort Bliss Army base."
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/ice-facility-el-paso-tuberculosis/
#PublicHealth #immigration #ICE #detention #tuberculosis #covid #texas

2026-02-09 19:31:00 UTC

“Six years ago, 85% of Americans, and 90% of Republicans, trusted the CDC. Now less than half trust the CDC on vaccines,” KFF President and CEO Drew Altman, PhD, said in a news release. “The wars over COVID, science, and vaccines have left the country without a trusted national voice on vaccines, and that trust will take time to restore.”
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-health/trust-cdc-near-pandemic-era-low-after-vaccine-schedule-changes
#PublicHealth #CDC #vaccines #immunizations #HHS

2026-02-08 22:57:00 UTC

The more she won, the worse the comments got. By 16, she says, “I was winning everything, and I felt like people wanted to take away from my talent and my hard work, and not give me the credit I deserved. I was foolish enough to believe them, too.” It took a long time for her to heal. “Now I don’t care,” she says. “Say what you want.”
https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a70178188/chloe-kim-winter-olympics-interview-2026/
#olympics #sports #athletes #aapi #aanhpi #korean #racism #MentalHealth

2026-02-08 16:03:01 UTC

"...the modern curl-pattern chart indirectly favors looser, more Eurocentric textures, which can reinforce harmful and prejudiced ideas about beauty. By putting straight hair first, literally as type 1, and coily textures last at type 4, it subtly reinforces the idea that the tighter the texture, the further it is from what has been historically labeled as 'ideal' or the 'default.'"
https://www.allure.com/story/curl-pattern-chart
#hair #beauty #BlackMastodon #science #eugenics

2026-02-07 22:33:24 UTC

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@nprofile…xlld @nprofile…wmhr
Sure, but there are too many complex situations that can arise that aren't addressed by the guidance. People who don't have experience in managing pregnancy complications should not be restricting this healthcare.

2026-02-07 16:03:01 UTC

"For the first time since Texas criminalized abortion, the state’s medical regulator is instructing doctors on when they can legally terminate a pregnancy to protect the life of the patient — guidance physicians have long sought as women died and doctors feared imprisonment for intervening."
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-medical-board-abortion-training-doctors via @nprofile…wmhr
#healthcare #ReproHealth #pregnancy #abortion #physicians #texas

2026-02-06 22:57:00 UTC

"The FDA removed a webpage that warned consumers about potentially dangerous products and therapies marketed as autism treatments.
An archived version of the page said the agency had warned or taken action against companies that made improper claims that their products could treat or cure autism or autism-related symptoms."
https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/119734
#healthcare #PublicHealth #FDA #autism #MAHA

2026-02-02 19:31:01 UTC

"All vaccine recommendations are being reconsidered by the US’s vaccines committee, according to its top adviser, who in recent interviews slammed vaccination requirements for attending school and said vaccines should be taken on the advice of an individual’s doctor."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/01/vaccine-recommendations-acip
#PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #HHS #CDC #ACIP #ChildrensHealth

2026-01-31 02:23:00 UTC

"The number of children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention on a given day has skyrocketed, jumping more than sixfold since the start of the second Trump administration...ICE held around 170 children on an average day under Trump. During the last 16 months of the Biden administration, ICE held around 25 children a day."
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/ice-kids-in-detention-numbers
#PublicHealth #immigrant #immigration #ICE #DHS #detention #incarceration #ChildrensHealth #families #MentalHealth #texas

2026-01-28 02:23:00 UTC

"Nearly half of the databases that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used to update regularly — surveillance systems that tracked public health information like Covid vaccination rates and hospitalizations for respiratory syncytial virus — have been paused without explanation, according to new research."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-databases-not-updated-vaccines-study-rcna255467
Original research: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-04022
#PublicHealth #CDC #surveillance #data #vaccines #immunizations #covid #pregnancy #ChildrensHealth

2026-01-25 16:03:01 UTC

"On the heels of a measles outbreak in Texas that killed two unvaccinated children, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he has opened an investigation into pediatricians who vaccinate because, he claims, they receive illegal financial incentives to do so."
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/texas-attorney-general-takes-aim-pediatricians-who-vaccinate-claiming-they-are
#PublicHealth #healthcare #vaccines #immunizations #physicians #pediatrics #texas

2026-01-19 20:00:55 UTC

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@nprofile…zdz0
Well Trump has said previously he's hiring the best so there's no way they could be that incompetent, hmmm?

2026-01-13 16:03:03 UTC

"Asked in an interview about his decision to take a leading role in the politically fraught health care negotiations, Moreno deployed one of Trump’s best-known slogans.
'Putting America first means putting Americans first,' he said. 'People are being affected, and I want to help the people who need help. That’s what we should be doing.'"
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/12/bernie-moreno-obamacare-talks-00719585
#healthcare #insurance #ACA #obamacare #TaxCredits #UScongress #MAGA #USpol

2026-01-12 22:57:00 UTC

"No one is saying kids can’t eat foods that contain natural sugar, such as bananas and fresh mango, but avoiding added sugar — which most everyone agrees should be limited — would require incredible diligence. The old rules, which most parents failed to abide by, only asked them to hold the line till their kids turned 2."
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/10/rfk-sugar-dietary-guidelines-children-00720472
#PublicHealth #food #diet #sugar #ChildrensHealth #parenting #HHS #USDA

2026-01-09 04:23:32 UTC

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@nprofile…hq00
You're raising a lot of important issues. We can't tell if they've been considered.
HIPAA allows physicians to consult each other about a patient without requiring patient consent! "Treatment is the provision, coordination, or management of health care and related services for an individual by one or more health care providers, including consultation between providers regarding a patient and referral of a patient by one provider to another."
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-regulations/index.html#permit

2026-01-07 19:31:01 UTC

"In a first for the U.S., Utah is letting artificial intelligence — not a doctor — renew certain medical prescriptions. No human involved.
The state has launched a pilot program with health-tech startup Doctronic that allows an AI system to handle routine prescription renewals for patients with chronic conditions."
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/06/artificial-intelligence-prescribing-medications-utah-00709122
#healthcare #PrescriptionDrugs #AI #physicians #FDA #utah

2025-12-22 22:57:01 UTC

"A recent graduate of the LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing has been held in an ICE processing center in Basile, Louisiana, for the past six months following her arrest by immigration agents over the summer...Palacios said she applied for asylum as a child. She had previously been granted a work permit and had requested another when she was arrested in June. She does not have any criminal convictions."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/21/louisiana-nursing-student-ice-detention
#healthcare #nurses #immigrant #immigration #ICE #detention

2025-12-15 19:31:01 UTC

"Just in the past six months, we've had two patients in the ICU with Hib. One child unfortunately succumbed at 4 months of age. No vaccines. One month ago, I was on call, and another patient also came into the ICU, a 2½-year-old, never vaccinated, Hib again. Abscesses in the brain, seizures, brain dead. Quote, unquote, mother's words: ‘Please give my child every vaccine you can.’ "
https://www.wusf.org/health-news-florida/2025-12-12/doctors-sound-alarm-about-deadly-meningitis-cases-during-state-vaccine-workshop
#PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #ChildrensHealth #prevention #florida

2025-12-13 00:18:49 UTC

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@nprofile…zlvl
May I ask what you think about land acknowledgements?

2025-12-12 02:23:00 UTC

"Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the 'biggest waves of censorship' on its platforms in years."
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/11/meta-shuts-down-global-accounts-linked-to-abortion-advice-and-queer-content
#PublicHealth #SocialMedia #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #pregnancy #abortion #lgbtq #queer #censorship #shadowban

2025-12-10 22:57:00 UTC

"...if it’s OK to comply with a directive to remove information about gender, what if the next demand is that we don’t report about people who emigrated from other countries, or on people who are experiencing homelessness? What if there’s a directive to suppress data about a particular racial or ethnic group that’s unpopular? How far would we go?"
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/hiv-expert-john-weiser-refused-to-censor-data-quit-cdc-transgender-interview/
#PublicHealth #HIV #lgbtq #transgender #immigrants #CDC #USpol #autocracy #ethics

2025-12-04 16:03:02 UTC

“On the one hand, this entire process started with a message of ‘Kids get too many shots,’” Chari Cohen, president of the Hepatitis B Foundation, said. “And now we’re talking about taking away the combination vaccines, which of course is going to mean more doses for kids.”
“I’m not really sure what the end goal is here,” she added.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/health/vaccine-committee-hepatitis-b-children-trump-rfk-jr.html
#PublicHealth #HepatitisB #hepB #vaccines #immunizations #vaccinations #ACIP #CDC #HHS #ChildrensHealth #ReproHealth #pregnancy

2025-12-03 22:57:01 UTC

"The Trump administration indicated Tuesday that it will begin withholding SNAP benefits from recipients in most Democratic-led states starting next week after those states refused to provide the Agriculture Department with data including recipients’ names and immigration statuses."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-administration-threatens-withhold-snap-benefits-blue-states-immi-rcna247060
#PublicHealth #hunger #SNAP #food #FoodAid #FoodAssistance #IRS #HHS #ICE #immigrant #immigration #USpol

2025-11-29 22:57:01 UTC

"The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles is implementing more stringent photo identification requirements for all vehicle registrations and renewals in an abrupt shift that could shut out undocumented residents from legally owning vehicles.
Current photo identification, such as a state driver’s license or passport, must be presented when new vehicle registrations or renewals are made, according to the new policy."
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/25/texas-dmv-id-restriction-registration-renewal-immigration/
#vehicle #DMV #license #registration #texas #immigrant

2025-11-24 22:57:00 UTC

"...female drivers in the United States are 73 percent more likely than a male driver to be severely injured in vehicle crashes, and they are 17 percent more likely to die, according to government data.
Those higher risks pushed the federal Transportation Department to approve a new female crash dummy, which was announced on Thursday. Known as the THOR-05F, it is 'more durable, accurate and lifelike,' according to the government."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/us/female-crash-test-dummy.html
#PublicHealth #vehicles #WomensHealth

2025-11-19 19:31:01 UTC

"Although a majority of Americans are confident that childhood vaccines are highly effective against serious illness, Republicans’ trust in vaccine safety and support of school requirements is dropping, according to new polling from Pew Research Center."
https://19thnews.org/2025/11/childhood-vaccine-safety-americans-trust/
#PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #vaccinations #CDC #HHS #misinformation #ChildrensHealth #USpol

2025-11-17 04:01:22 UTC

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@nprofile…jcfh @nprofile…0wyq @nprofile…5j4d @nprofile…h4mc
💯 I've thought about The Handmaiden as "what would happen if white women were treated like Black enslaved women." The horror!

2025-11-16 19:31:01 UTC

"The concept of menstrual leave is not new. Countries like Spain, Japan, South Korea and Indonesia already offer menstrual leave. Some Indian states also offer limited menstrual leave: Bihar and Odisha give two days per month to government employees, while Kerala provides it to university and industrial training institute staff."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78zg4810jro
#PublicHealth #menstruation #periods #leave #PTO #workers #labor #WomensHealth

2025-11-16 15:52:52 UTC

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@nprofile…5j4d
I worry about the misinformation spread by tradwife, pro-natalist, and conservative social media reaching young women that is promoting traditional gender roles and seeding distrust in contraception.

2025-11-16 02:23:01 UTC

"The sharp rise in younger women wanting to leave the U.S. has created a large gender gap between them and their male counterparts. Today’s 21-percentage-point gap between younger men (19%) and women (40%) wanting to leave the U.S. is the widest Gallup has recorded on this trend."
https://news.gallup.com/poll/697382/record-numbers-younger-women-leave.aspx
#women #immigrate #immigration #emigrate #emigration #migration #SCOTUS #ReproJustice #ReproHealth #USpol

2025-11-08 22:57:00 UTC

"Foreigners seeking visas to live in the U.S. might be rejected if they have certain medical conditions, including diabetes or obesity, under a Thursday directive from the Trump administration."
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/visa-public-charge-health-conditions-trump-state-department/
#healthcare #immigrant #immigration #visas #hospitals #diabetes #obesity #cardiovascular #cancer #MentalHealth #USpol

2025-11-08 02:23:00 UTC

"Hundreds of public health workers and their allies, flanked by photographers shading their eyes from the glare of the afternoon sun, marched from the National Mall toward HHS headquarters at the Hubert H. Humphrey Building on Wednesday."
https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/apha/118360
#PublicHealth #APHA #protest #advocacy #HHS #healthcare #RFKJr #USpol

2025-11-04 02:23:00 UTC

"The Trump administration has ordered states to investigate certain individuals enrolled in Medicaid to determine whether they are ineligible because of their immigration status, with five states reporting they’ve together received more than 170,000 names — an 'unprecedented' step by the federal government that ensnares the state-federal health program in the president’s immigration crackdown."
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/trump-hhs-medicaid-eligibility-reviews-states-cms-immigrants/
#healthcare #medicaid #CHIP #immigrants #immigration #HHS #USpol

2025-10-22 18:31:14 UTC

"Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are profiting from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S. They object to the term 'anti-science' and portray the MAHA movement as grassroots. But it’s fueled by a web of well-funded national groups led by people who’ve profited – financially and otherwise – from sowing distrust of medicine and science."
https://apnews.com/article/maha-supplements-wellness-rfk-jr-vaccine-raw-milk-dc8ecf998ef3835adbf32fc88c14af07
#PublicHeath #MAHA #vaccines #misinformation

2025-10-20 15:28:21 UTC

"Baek's book inverted the notion that social success is the ultimate measure of a life well lived, openly addressing the mental health issues many commonly face and, in doing so, showing readers that acknowledging your emotions is the first step towards healing."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15p9ndxd4eo
#books #Bookstodon #writing #authors #memoirs #MentalHealth #anxiety #depression #dysthymia #SouthKorea #death

2025-10-15 01:23:01 UTC

"Drinking water fluoridation, which was pioneered in Michigan in 1945, led to a massive drop in tooth decay. Even with the rise of fluoride in toothpaste and other products, it’s credited with a 25% decrease in cavities. But skeptics increasingly hold sway in government, as ProPublica recently reported. Those opponents include Kennedy, the nation’s top health official, who has called fluoride 'industrial waste.'”
https://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-fluoride-drinking-water-st-clair-county
#PublicHealth #fluoride #dental #OralHealth #teeth #water

2025-10-08 21:57:01 UTC

"In Denver, OB-GYN Dr. Rebecca Cohen has delivered multiple babies this year for women who have told her that, because they fear endangering themselves or their families, they have received no prenatal care. Several have given birth to babies with fatal fetal anomalies that were never diagnosed because the women did not receive prenatal ultrasounds."
https://19thnews.org/2025/10/pregnant-immigrants-ice-fears-deportation/
#healthcare #ReproHealth #pregnancy #prenatal #PrimaryCare #immigrant #immigration #ICE #ChildrensHealth #WomensHealth

2025-10-06 18:31:02 UTC

"Most of President Donald Trump’s supporters back keeping enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans, the central obstacle in ending the government shutdown, according to a new poll from the nonpartisan health policy research group KFF. It was conducted Sept. 23 through Sept. 29, just days before Congress failed to pass a funding measure to keep the government open."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/trump-supporters-obamacare-subsidies-government-shutdown-poll-rcna235195
#healthcare #ACA #Obamacare #insurance #UScongress #USpol

2025-10-01 18:31:01 UTC

"The Trump administration has restored almost all of the 500 National Institutes of Health grants it suspended at UCLA in July in response to a federal judge’s order last week.
Attorneys in the U.S. Department of Justice...report that the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, has restored all but nine grants to UCLA health science researchers, though that figure may be even smaller."
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-donald-trump-es-education-funding-united-states-government-colleges-and-universities-3b436d4c85aea09a0642ad0bedecdb10
#healthcare #NIH #biomedical #science #research #funding #grants #courts #USpol

2025-09-10 15:03:57 UTC

"New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Monday that she will defend her state’s abortion protections in a lawsuit brought by the state of Texas. James’ involvement sets up the first interstate fight over abortion laws since the fall of Roe v. Wade, opening the door for the Supreme Court to weigh in on a key legal mechanism that has helped people in states with bans access abortion."
https://19thnews.org/2025/09/telehealth-abortion-pills-supreme-court-letitia-james/
#healthcare #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #pregnancy #abortion #telehealth

2025-09-07 15:03:01 UTC

"While health care has long attracted quackery, A.I. tools developed by Big Tech are enabling the people behind these impersonations to reach millions online — and to profit from them. The result is seeding disinformation, undermining trust in the profession and potentially endangering patients."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/ai-doctor-scams.html
#healthcare #AI #FDA #supplements #misinformation #disinformation #quacks #frauds #scams

2025-08-23 18:31:01 UTC

"The late disability justice co-founder and activist Stacey Park Milbern is the latest pioneering woman to receive her own quarter from the U.S. Mint. Milbern is the first woman in a wheelchair featured on U.S. currency and the first person whose wheelchair is actually shown."
https://19thnews.org/2025/08/stacey-park-milbern-us-quarter-disability-representation/
#disabilities #DisabilityJustice #wheelchair #aapi #aanhpi #women #diversity #equity #inclusion #representation

2025-08-23 01:23:01 UTC

"Health insurance companies have requested an average premium increase of 24% for Affordable Care Act plans in Texas in 2026, a significant hike that could lead to destabilization in the marketplace and customers opting for less or no coverage."
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/21/texas-health-insurance-premiums-aca-tax-credit-expiration/
#healthcare #insurance #ACA #premiums #RuralHealth #HealthPolicy #texas

2025-08-22 01:23:00 UTC

"More than 750 employees across the Department of Health and Human Services sent a signed letter to members of Congress and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday morning, calling on the secretary to stop spreading misinformation."
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/750-hhs-employees-send-signed-letter-rfk-jr/story?id=124805697
#PublicHealth #misinformation #HHS #CDC #NIH #GunViolence #GunSafety

2025-08-19 18:31:19 UTC

"In the study, published Monday in JAMA Network Open, researchers used survey data from 986 people, ages 15 to 45, in 44 states who obtained the over-the-counter pill either online or at a pharmacy. They found that a significant portion of users shifted to the over-the-counter pill from a less-effective method of birth control or from using no contraception at all."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/over-the-counter-birth-control-use-study/
#healthcare #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #contraception #FamilyPlanning

2025-08-09 18:31:01 UTC

"Despite being among the top reasons women seek medical care, sleep disruptions during menopause have been understudied and undertreated. For women, sleep problems peak during the menopausal years, which span from their 40s to early 60s. Even more alarming, suicide rates also rise during these years. Yet, this crisis remains largely ignored."
https://msmagazine.com/2025/08/01/women-lack-sleep-menopause-research-mental-health-care-mother/
#PublicHealth #sleep #WomensHealth #menopause #biomedical #science #research #MentalHealth

2025-08-08 01:23:01 UTC

"People whose homes are near busy highways may be able to reduce their blood pressure by running an air purifier with a HEPA filter, a study found.
Just a month of air filter use cut systolic blood pressure by nearly 3 points in healthy adults who had slightly elevated blood pressure, according to the report published Wednesday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heart-health/hepa-air-filter-lower-blood-pressure-high-air-pollution-traffic-rcna223267
#PublicHealth #air #AirQuality #AirPurifier #BloodPressure #environment

2025-08-02 16:55:01 UTC

"Now, a new ProPublica data analysis adds empirical weight to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of miscarriage — which occurs in up to 30% of pregnancies — far more dangerous. It is based on hospital discharge data from Texas, the largest state to ban abortion, and captures emergency department visits from 2017 to 2023, the most recent year available."
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-miscarriage-blood-transfusions via @nprofile…j3rp
#healthcare #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy

2025-08-02 15:03:02 UTC

"A little-known federal agency that sends more than $12 billion annually to support community health centers, addiction treatment services, and workforce initiatives for America’s neediest people has been hobbled by the Trump administration’s staffing purges."
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/hrsa-federal-staff-cuts-affect-health-programs-grants/
#healthcare #HRSA #HHS #PrimaryCare #FQHC #hospitals #MedEd #RuralHealth #medicaid #ChildrensHealth #MentalHealth #UScongress #DOGE

2025-07-25 16:55:03 UTC

"Bypassing its standard pathways for scientific discussions, FDA has recently held a slew of so-called "expert panels" that sidestep legal procedures and ethics guardrails, raising concern about cherry-picking of experts and evidence.
The panels appear to be a new feature of Trump administration officials, and have no parallel in agency programs from years past, sources said."
https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/fdageneral/116662
#healthcare #FDA #PrescriptionDrugs #pregnancy #menopause #formula #talc #ethics

2025-07-24 23:06:37 UTC

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@nprofile…xgn7
😞

2025-07-24 16:55:01 UTC

"Many reusable menstrual products that have gained increasing popularity among teens are packed with toxic 'forever chemicals,' a new study has found.
Among the biggest repeat offenders are washable pads and underwear, according to the study, published on Tuesday in Environmental Science & Technology Letters."
https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/5412276-toxic-forever-chemicals-pfas-reusable-period-menstrual-products/
#PublicHealth #PFAS #periods #menstrual #MenstrualHealth #MenstrualCup #WomensHealth

2025-07-24 01:23:00 UTC

"Doctors-to-be will spend class time gardening and at a teaching farm, learning about the seasonality of fresh foods and how to cook them—then passing those lessons onto patients."
https://time.com/7303692/alice-walton-school-of-medicine-new-medical-school/
#healthcare #MedEd #MedSchool #MedSchools #food #nutrition #HuMed #art #humanities

2025-07-22 16:55:01 UTC

"The average American adult uses about 12 personal care products a day, Consumer Reports says, resulting in exposure to an average of 168 chemicals. Those can include formaldehyde, mercury, asbestos, lead and parabens, which have been linked to cancer, brain damage and reproductive harm...Despite mounting scientific research into the dangers posed by toxic chemicals, little has been done to ban them or at least label them on cosmetics."
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/21/nx-s1-5472445/safer-beauty-bill-package-remove-toxic-chemicals-cosmestics
#PublicHealth #beauty #skincare

2025-07-21 15:08:00 UTC

"...Truemed helps supply people with letters attesting to their medical need for products like red-light masks, Peloton bikes and $9,000 saunas. With those letters, the company tells people, they can use health savings or flexible spending accounts to buy the items. The accounts allow people to set aside a limited portion of their income, without paying federal income tax, for qualified medical expenses."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/business/truemed-fsa-hsa-calley-means-maha.html
#healthcare #wellness #HSA #FSA #MedicalExpenses #IRS #MAHA

2025-07-15 16:55:10 UTC

"Doctors, hospitals, and health insurers for weeks issued dire warnings to Republican lawmakers that millions of people would lose health coverage and hospitals would close if they cut Medicaid funding to help pay for President Donald Trump’s big tax and spending bill.
But Republicans ignored those pleas, made even deeper cuts, and sent the legislation on July 3 to the White House, where Trump signed it the next day."
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/trump-tax-spending-law-health-care-industry-lobbying/
#healthcare #medicaid #ACA #HealthPolicy #USpol

2025-07-15 15:06:26 UTC

"Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is headed for a showdown this week with a group of Republican senators over a House-passed package that claws back $9.4 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and global public health programs."
Call your senator and tell them no: 202-224-3121
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5397671-thune-senate-appropriations-packages/
#healthcare #GlobalHealth #ForeignAid #ForeignAssistance #USAID #PEPFAR #HIV #CPB #NPR #radio #appropriations #recissions #UScongress #USpol

2025-07-14 01:23:08 UTC

"Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors, a review by The Associated Press found."
https://apnews.com/article/texas-flood-camp-mystic-map-records-investigation-e12bee8d5f88301363861ca12c19b929
#PublicHealth #disaster #flooding #insurance #FEMA #climate #environment #regulations #texas #CampMystic

2025-07-12 16:55:28 UTC

"We are also seeing a longer tick season across the country, which historically has been a relatively predictable seasonal threat," Bente said. "While tick bites are more common in the summer because of increased outdoor activity, evidence shows that people must stay vigilant year-round now that ticks are also active in the winter because of warming driven by climate change."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tick-bites-emergency-room-visits-2025/
#PublicHealth #ticks #outdoors #climate #environment

2025-07-11 01:23:08 UTC

"The discussion about first responders’ mental health likely wouldn’t have occurred a generation ago, experts say. And while first responders have higher rates of post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological health conditions, most are able to process the heavy realities of the job."
https://apnews.com/article/texas-floods-search-first-responders-mental-health-33fc7cb66093694d380e5d95a9b72d98
#healthcare #MentalHealth #PTSD #disaster #FirstResponder #search #rescue

2025-07-06 01:57:48 UTC

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@nprofile…3w0r @nprofile…6058
I saw a NYT article say Trump would provide disaster aid? Is this because Texas has a Republican governor because I know FEMA isn't prepared.

2025-07-05 18:31:07 UTC

"KPop Demon Hunters is currently the most streamed movie on Netflix globally, clocking up more than 33 million views in just two weeks...The film's soundtrack shot into the top 10 of the Billboard 200 in the US, making it the highest debut for a soundtrack so far this year."
The music is catchy!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyl1zyv1y2o
#music #kpop #idol #entertainment #films #movies #representation #PopCulture #PopMusic #BTS #blackpink

2025-07-02 16:55:11 UTC

"After Texas made performing abortions a felony in August 2022, ProPublica found, the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54%.
The number of emergency room visits for early miscarriage also rose, by 25%, compared with the three years before the COVID-19 pandemic..."
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-miscarriage-blood-transfusions
#healthcare #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #miscarriage #transfusions #EmergencyMed #hospitals #texas #txlege

2025-06-30 16:55:20 UTC

"They are also the first indication that the U.S.’s rejection of global vaccine campaigns stems from the Trump administration’s opposition not only to foreign aid, but to vaccination itself. For the first time, Kennedy has managed to use the anti-vaccine agenda to guide American foreign policy."
🎁: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/06/gavi-funding-kennedy-anti-vaccine/683368/?gift=4qarc8exrrcy8go1zwb_rmxkhsgxy5sq74jmoxs5b_m
#PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #vaccinations #HHS #CDC #ACIP #Gavi #WHO #ForeignPolicy #ForeignAid #GlobalHealth #InternationalHealth #ChildrensHealth

2025-06-30 13:14:22 UTC

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@nprofile…607y
I've been listening to Kpop since around the third generation artists and the fandoms can be vocal and demanding. An idol admitting a heterosexual relationship could get cancelled. I hope their culture can be more welcoming. It starts with brave people like him.
There can be a lot of love, too. My best example is when the BTS ARMY matched BTS's donation to Black Lives Matter within 24 hours: https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-RACE/BTS-FANS/nmopajgmxva/

2025-06-30 01:23:06 UTC

"This is a world where even straight couples don't talk about their private lives, says critic Lim Hee-yun.
'K-pop has spent nearly 25 years avoiding the topic of sexuality [altogether]. Even heterosexual relationships are hidden to protect fan fantasies.'"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5kx7wn1nzo
#music #entertainment #artist #PopCulture #kpop #idol #sexuality #lgbtq #SouthKorea

2025-06-27 18:31:11 UTC

"Five people who are incarcerated at a New Mexico county detention facility have measles, the state health department said Thursday.
The Luna County Detention Center, located in the southwest New Mexico city of Deming, houses about 400 incarcerated people and has 100 staff members. State health officials say they are determining the vaccination status of people being held at the facility and are providing testing kits and equipment."
https://apnews.com/article/measles-new-mexico-detention-facility-migrants-outbreak-c7f5897ebba85a59548d279c500adaea
#PublicHealth #measles #NewMexico

2025-06-24 01:23:13 UTC

"A leading contender is a new group led by Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert and the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota.
Osterholm is launching the Vaccine Integrity Project at CIDRAP as a potential alternative to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/groups-organize-form-unbiased-independent-vaccine-panel-rcna212468
#PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #vaccinations #ACIP #CDC #HHS

2025-06-19 15:06:55 UTC

"The purpose of Juneteenth was always a celebration of emancipation, of the Black community’s emergence out of our gloomy past. But it was also an implicit warning that what had been done could be done again. Now millions of schoolchildren will enjoy a holiday commemorating parts of our history that the federal government believes might be illegal to teach them about."
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/06/the-hollowness-of-this-juneteenth/683232/
#juneteenth #BlackMastodon #UShistory #diversity #equity #inclusion #DEI #CivilRights #PublicHealth

2025-06-18 22:10:13 UTC

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@nprofile…emnz
Thank you, I meant the "peacekeepers" mentioned in the article:
"The 'peacekeepers' told police that they saw Gamboa move away from the crowd and begin manipulating an AR-15-style rifle. It prompted them to draw their guns and order him to drop the weapon, police said."
Just random people with guns? I haven't found much explanation in the limited media coverage on this shooting.

2025-06-18 13:38:21 UTC

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@nprofile…emnz
I didn't understand who were the "peacekeepers" monitoring the demonstration.

2025-06-16 16:55:12 UTC

"President Donald Trump’s administration this week provided deportation officials with personal data -- including the immigration status -- on millions of Medicaid enrollees, a move that could make it easier to locate people as part of his sweeping immigration crackdown."
https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-deportation-immigrants-trump-4e0f979e4290a4d10a067da0acca8e22
#healthcare #medicaid #DataPrivacy #HHS #CMS #DHS #immigrant #immigration #deportation #ICE #california #illinois #washington #washingtonDC

2025-06-11 18:31:12 UTC

"Republican lawmakers in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and West Virginia have also proposed bills to make ivermectin available over the counter.
Nearly all would simply permit health care providers and pharmacists to distribute ivermectin without a prescription."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/ivermectin-over-counter-pharmacy-states-rfk-jr-rcna205616
#healthcare #ivermectin #parasites #pharmacies #pharmacists #FDA #misinformation #covid #cancer

2025-06-08 18:31:16 UTC

"It was important for us to cover this topic because it so greatly affects so many travellers," said Lyric Fergusson, who runs the travel safety site with her partner, Asher. "Unfortunately, the harsh reality is that the majority of the world is still far from safe for LGBTQ+ people. But because laws are always being revised, it's our mission to update this list at least once a year."
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240627-six-lgbtq-destinations-around-the-world
#travel #visit #destinations #lgbtq #safety

2025-06-03 03:14:23 UTC

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@nprofile…tfk4
Yup, the last time I got COVID two summers ago was because my partner and I ate unmasked on the plane. The person in front of me was coughing and I was too hungry to notice. When we got home, we had to stay at a friend's backyard tiny house due to a power outage. Partner got sick and transmitted to me even though I slept with a mask and left the air purifier by him.

2025-06-02 15:05:42 UTC

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its warning about the risk of contracting measles while traveling, after the agency tallied dozens of cases so far this year in travelers who were infectious while flying on airplanes within the U.S."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-measles-travel-warning-spread-in-airplane/
#PublicHealth #travel #measles #vaccines #immunizations #vaccinations

2025-05-20 15:07:15 UTC

How to limit exposure to arsenic in rice after report finds high levels in brands across U.S.:
🍚 Use rice alternatives
👀 Look at labels
🍝 Cook rice like pasta
🌾 Choose based on type
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arsenic-rice-how-to-limit-exposure/
#PublicHealth #food #FoodSafety #rice #arsenic #cadmium

2025-05-16 15:04:22 UTC

"The proposed data center campus in Bessemer, if realized, would consist of 18 buildings, each larger than the average Walmart Supercenter, that would house massive server farms for data storage and processing. Located on about 700 acres of wooded land currently zoned for agricultural use, the proposed physical infrastructure would require the permanent clear-cutting of at least 100 acres of forest."
https://www.fastcompany.com/91332829/a-4-million-square-foot-data-center-is-planned-for-this-alabama-town-but-residents-are-pushing-back
#energy #climate #environment #AI #crypto #technology #water #alabama

2025-05-15 15:04:30 UTC

"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the nation's most publicly recognized vaccine skeptics, took a softened approach on vaccines when he answered questions before a House committee Wednesday morning, saying, 'I don't think people should be taking medical advice from me.'"
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/rfk-jr-testify-house-senate-committees-amid-layoffs/story?id=121771047
#healthcare #HHS #measles #vaccines #vaccinations #immunizations #PublicHealth #NIH #CDC #NIOSH #USpol

2025-05-14 01:23:05 UTC

"The winner of NPR’s 2025 Tiny Desk Contest is the Bay Area’s own Ruby Ibarra.
A research scientist and fiercely poetic lyricist raised in San Lorenzo, Ibarra raps in English alongside the Filipino languages of Tagalog and Bisaya. Her Tiny Desk Contest-winning track, 'Bakunawa,' was inspired by the dragon-like serpent of Philippine mythology."
https://www.kqed.org/arts/13976039/ruby-ibarra-npr-tiny-desk-contest-winner-bay-area
#music #entertainment #art #TinyDesk #concert #aapi #aanhpi #filipino #filipina

2025-05-11 15:03:10 UTC

"If the upshot of all this were merely the shattered career dreams of a bunch of Gen X and millennial movie executives, this story probably wouldn’t have been written. But the implications for the film business — and for the wider cinematic culture — are actually pretty profound, at least according to many of the Gen X and millennial movie executives with whom THR spoke."
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/hollywood-workers-stuck-battle-opportunity-1236047705/
#movies #films #entertainment #workers #labor #business #industry #aging #succession

2025-05-10 21:57:06 UTC

"An asbestos screening clinic in a small Montana town where thousands have been sickened by toxic dust from a nearby mine has been abruptly shuttered by authorities following a court order to seize the clinic’s assets to pay off a judgment to the railroad BNSF."
https://apnews.com/article/libby-montana-asbestos-clinic-shuttered-bnsf-87e2e20926916a97da6821d8afe50be4
#PublicHealth #asbestos #air #AirQuality #railroad #railway #mining #montana