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The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces insurers’ equal treatment of mental and physical health.
#News #MentalHealth #Insurance #Health #Trump #Biden #Government
The vaccine laws of many states are tied to ACIP’s recommendations…incl. for school entry, guidelines for health care workers, whether pharmacists can provide #COVID vaccinations…
Without those recommendations, states are creating their own rules, seeking information elsewhere & banding together to ensure coverage for their citizens (excluding Florida, which has gone in the opposite direction & seeks to end all vaccine mandates).
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#USA #healthcare #health #vaccines
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https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/09/06/nx-s1-5532121/states-vaccine-guidance-washington-oregon-new-mexico
🧼🔬 14-year-old Heman Bekele developed a revolutionary soap that reactivates immune cells to fight skin #cancer, inspired by memories of people working under the harsh Ethiopian #sun.
His #invention costs just $0.50 to produce compared to $40,000 cancer treatments, and he's now working at Johns Hopkins to bring it to underserved communities worldwide.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/teenager-soap-cancer-rep/
#science #innovation #teenager #medicine #Africa #prevention #research #health #Ethiopia
Wow, the #Viu #HallyuDash is expensive. It's like buying tickets to a huge #Kpop #Kdrama concert/fanmeet. 😅viuhallyudash.myruntime.com/register#ViuPH #Running #ViuHallyuDash #FunRun #Fitness #Health
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Wow, the #Viu #HallyuDash is expensive. It's like buying tickets to a huge #Kpop #Kdrama concert/fanmeet. 😅
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.
That didn’t take long…
‘It Feels Like the #CDC Is Over’
The CDC’s departing leaders discuss the agency’s future—or lack thereof.
By Tom Bartlett
#Trump #RFKJr #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics #disinformation #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #PublicHealth #Health #vaccines #science #medicine #policy #USpol
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/08/cdc-resignations-tipping-point/684038/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxb3iptRElGDyBA80yCQGKb4
We Ran the #CDC: #RFKJr Is Endangering Every American’s #Health
By William Foege, William Roper, David Satcher, Jeffrey Koplan, Richard Besser, Tom Frieden, Anne Schuchat, Rochelle P. Walensky & Mandy K. Cohen
The authors previously led in the CDC, as directors or acting directors under Republican & Democratic admins.
#Trump #policy #medicine #science #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #idiocracy #kakistocracy #RecklessEndangerment #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/opinion/cdc-leaders-kennedy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ik8.gf0g.skHNQEL7UbKw&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#RFKJr grilled on #AntiVax policy in
combative #Senate hearing
In a contentious hearing, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his tenure as *#health* secretary, as #Republicans joined #Democrats in questioning his moves to discredit & limit access to #vaccines.
#Trump #PublicHealth #science #medicine #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #BrainWorm
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-9-4-2025?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-04-Live+updates
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.
Senators Demand Names of Foreign Drugmakers Skirting FDA Import Bans
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Citing a recent ProPublica investigation, Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said they had “urgent concerns” about the agency’s oversight of foreign drugmakers and whether medications coming into the U.S. are safe.
https://www.propublica.org/article/senators-letter-fda-drug-import-bans?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
《An estimated 92% of the world’s population lives in areas where air pollution exceeds safety limits, according to the World Health Organization》
#Pollution #AirPollution #Safety #Health #WHO #Capitalism #Hypocrisy #Corruption #CorporateGreed
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
Kennedy’s vaccine committee voted to change the children’s recommended vaccine schedule today—
voting 8-3 to no longer recommend children under four years old get the MMRV (measles, mumps, rubella, varicella) vaccine (😳)
The committee will vote tomorrow on its hepatitis B vaccine recommendation changes. It will also recommend who should be eligible for the latest #COVID vaccine.
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#ICYMI #USA #US #rfkjr #PublicHealth #health #children #vaccines #COVID19
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https://www.npr.org/2025/09/18/nx-s1-5542082/cdc-acip-vaccine-hepatitis-b-mmrv
Today I checked off an item on my bucket list: release an app on the Apple App Store. 🎉
I started this app to help me manage my as-needed medication, with three core values:
1. 🔒 Privacy First (no tracking or data harvesting)
2. 🎁 Always Free (no ads or subscriptions)
3. 📂 Open Source (transparent & inspectable)
Download on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/as-needed/id6714469235
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#Apple #iosdev #indiedev #buildinpublic #FOSS #opensource #privacy #TGIF #ios #watchos26 #ios26 #health #shipaton
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
Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.
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Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.
https://www.propublica.org/article/psychiatric-hospitals-emtala-violations-mental-health?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Health #Law #Hospital #MentalHealth #Psychiatry #Medicine