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Gay Black men are more likely to test themselves for #HIV and engage in less risky sexual behaviors than gay men of other races, when appropriate care is available, several studies have shown
https://theconversation.com/lack-of-access-to-health-care-is-partly-to-blame-for-skyrocketing-hiv-rates-among-gay-black-men-206375
#LGBTQ @blakmastodon #BlackMastodon #health
American physician Alice Hamilton was born #OTD in 1869.
She focused her explorations on occupational toxic disorders, examining the effects of substances such as aniline dyes, carbon monoxide, mercury, tetraethyl lead, radium, benzene, carbon disulfide & hydrogen sulfide gases. In 1925, at a Public Health Service conference on the use of lead in gasoline, she testified against the use of lead & warned of the danger it posed to people & the environment. via @wikipedia
#Syphilis Is Killing #Babies. The U.S. Government Is Failing to Stop the Disease From Spreading.
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The only drug that treats syphilis during #pregnancy is in short supply.
Untreated, the #disease can pass to newborns, killing them or leaving them with disabilities. As cases rise sharply, the #government isn’t doing much to prevent shortages.
A hospital says a patient died… and it takes him years to correct the record; A new data tool promises to lighten workloads, but even more doctors & nurses burn out. What's going on here?
I reviewed Klaus Hoeyer's DATA PARADOXES for @hnet_reviews. It's a good book for STSers, but an even better book for anyone who's deciding whether and how to deploy data-collecting infrastructure, whether in medicine (Hoeyer's case) or any other domain
https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=60009
#STS #Health #Medicine #Data
Ugh. Most Americans (and citizens of many other countries) lose an hour of sleep tonight thanks to daylight saving time.
CBS News has tips on how to prepare your body for the change: https://flip.it/QbjcbB
Many clinics that provide #abortion are closing, even where it’s still #legal
#PlannedParenthood of #Michigan is giving up on 4 of its #health centers, citing #financial challenges.
Including the one in #Marquette, the only clinic that provided abortion in the vast… #UpperPeninsula. For the ~1,100 patients who visited the clinic each year for anything from #cancer screenings to #contraception implants, the next-closest Planned Parenthood will now be a ~5-hr drive south.
“This is really its own illness, lots of times affecting young, healthy people.”
Millions of Texans have already come down with long #COVID symptoms, and many more could be at risk in the future if we don't make changes. For this @TexasObserver magazine feature, I interviewed both sufferers and medical experts about solutions we can take: https://www.texasobserver.org/long-covid-texas-clearing-the-air/
#news #politics #USpol #healthcare #health #disability #HumanRights #Texas #Austin #pandemic #science
American physician and endocrinologist Rebecca Lee Dorsey died #OTD in 1954. She is known as the world's first female endocrinologist and the first woman physician to practice in Los Angeles.
Dorsey was said to have been the attending physician at over 4,000 births during her lifetime, to have founded a nursing school and organized the city's first maternity ward, and to have administered the first diphtheria inoculation in Los Angeles in about 1893.
Without a Democratic sweep in November, Biden’s attempt to explicitly codify Roe v Wade will fail.
But Biden can recommend that Congress undertake many other legal reforms, removing some obstacles to getting an abortion
https://theconversation.com/biden-cannot-easily-make-roe-v-wade-federal-law-but-he-could-still-make-it-easier-to-get-an-abortion-225619
#health #uspolitics #abortionrights
The price of asthma medication has soared in the U.S. over the past decade and a half.
The pharmaceutical company Teva sells QVAR RediHaler, a corticosteroid inhaler, for $286 in the U.S.
In Germany, Teva sells that same inhaler for $9.
https://theconversation.com/asthma-meds-have-become-shockingly-unaffordable-but-relief-may-be-on-the-way-222858
#health
How much stress is too much?
A psychiatrist explains the links between toxic stress and poor health − and how to get help:
https://theconversation.com/how-much-stress-is-too-much-a-psychiatrist-explains-the-links-between-toxic-stress-and-poor-health-and-how-to-get-help-222245
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel says AI will help scientists understand "most diseases" in three to five years.
@Semafor quotes the executive: “The reason we still have people dying of cancer, people suffering from Alzheimer's, is we do not understand the fundamental biology of those diseases.”
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Disease #Cancer #Health #Science #Biology #Tech
Drugs like Ozempic are very effective at helping people lose weight. But will the weight come back after they stop taking them? Yes, for most people, it will. Science Alert looks into whether these medications are just another (expensive) form of yo-yo dieting. https://flip.it/.7L1q2
#Science #Health #Dieting #WeightLoss #Ozempic
A #Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly.
#Cigna Threatened to Fire Her.
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Cigna tracks every minute that its staff #doctors spend deciding whether to pay for #HealthCare.
Dr. Debby Day said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers,” Day said.
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i was told i was gonna hit a wall of fatigue sometime after the 2nd or 3rd week after finishing treatment. am glad to be alive and on my way to recovery but this sucks ass.
we need #UBI as part of health care. nobody should have to be precariously unemployed during a situation like this.
anybody having to go to a job during or after #cancer treatment is lying if they say they can handle it.
this is not bullshit. to be forced to work thru a #health crisis is eugenics.
“Of all people, you have a #disability so you can relate, I hope.”
Out today from Austin Free Press: Disability rights activists protested outside the Governor's Mansion, for the "liberation" of more people from institutions, marking the anniversary of a key #SCOTUS decision:
https://austinfreepress.org/wheres-abbott-austin-disability-activists-picket-one-of-their-own-at-governors-mansion/
#news #politics #activism #health #HumanRights #disabled #protest #GregAbbott #USpol #politics #law #CivilRights
Whatever gripes we may have about publicly funded health care, privatization sure as hell isn’t the answer.
#health #healthcare
American nurse Clara Maass was born #OTD in 1876.
In 1900, the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission, led by Dr. Walter Reed, was established to investigate the transmission of yellow fever. Maass volunteered to participate in the commission’s experiments, which involved being deliberately bitten by mosquitoes that had previously fed on yellow fever patients. She did this in the hope of advancing medical knowledge and finding a way to prevent the disease.
Hey my A1C test just came back, whatever that is, and it looks normal.
Sweetness in the blood? I celebrated with 2 popsicles.
Several other tests I guess are happening.
Pretty cool how they ding on your phone when the results are in.
As someone who carries an EpiPen (but has never had to use it) due to an anaphylactic reaction to some unidentified food, I was super interested to read this news of a nasal spray alternative which just got approved.
https://www.statnews.com/2024/08/09/allergic-reaction-epipen-alternative-nasal-spray-fda-approval/
The Government Spends Millions to Open Grocery Stores in #Food Deserts. The Real Test Is Their Survival.
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The community of Cairo, #Illinois, once a food desert, welcomed its new market last year with balloons and cheers.
But the store is struggling — exposing problems with the programs set up to help.
#News #Midwest #Government #Retail #Health #Business
https://www.propublica.org/article/food-desert-grocery-store-cairo-illinois
Why It’s So Hard to Find a Therapist Who Takes #Insurance
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Those who need #therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have #health insurance.
Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible and their lives miserable.
#News #HealthCare #MentalHealth #Government #Business #Law #Doctors #Hospital #Patients
New #Biden Administration Rules Aim to Hold Insurers Accountable for #MentalHealth Care Coverage
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The regulations will force health insurance plans to collect and report more data on how they limit and deny mental health claims. ProPublica’s reporting has found that insurers regularly shortchange patients seeking treatment.
#News #Health #Insurance #Regulation #Government #Therapy
https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-administration-strengthens-mental-health-care-protections
Last year, AI boosters couldn’t shut up about how chatbots would improve healthcare, education, and become an assistant for any task imaginable.
But as more research is done on AI tools, the benefits seem illusive and the drawbacks are impossible to deny.
https://disconnect.blog/roundup-will-generative-ai-have-many-long-term-benefits/