This week's comic: "Protecting the children"
#uspol #comic #cartoon #children #education #lgbtq #climate #health #healthcare #transgender
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Three Months After Missouri Voted to Make Abortion Legal, Access Is Still Being Blocked
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Reproductive rights are now enshrined in the state constitution, but Missouri’s main abortion provider is fighting legal hurdles to resume offering the procedure. Meanwhile, anti-abortion lawmakers strategize to prevent a return of abortion services.
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#Health Information
Is *Your* #National Health #Information Sites down or "normalised"?
Needing some alternatives during the USA's #Gleichschaltung ?
*Try some of these.*
As @EdCates posted:
"The Most Stereotypical Canadian thing ever."
** Canada
(paraphrased)
For their American Friends who may be struggling to find sound health advice.
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health.html
** WHO
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets
** Ireland
https://www.gov.ie/en/organisation/department-of-health/
** Germany
https://www.bzga.de/home/key-topics/
(language button at top)
** Papua New Guinea
https://www.health.gov.pg/
** Singapore
https://www.moh.gov.sg/
** New Zealand
https://www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/
https://info.health.nz/keeping-healthy
@Edelruth @EdCates
@kaffando @MxVerda
ToBeContinued ...
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#Cancer, #Covid, & #Alzheimers #Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before #RFKJr announced that 10,000 #HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on #NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
#Trump #health #science #medicine #AntiIntellectualism #idiocracy #USpol
https://www.404media.co/nih-archives-repositories-marked-for-review-for-potential-modification/
Memes associated to the judgement element "Does it save lives ?" :
Useful meme :
Put a mask when there's a massive epidemic (saves lives).
Neutral meme :
Use a tool to eat (no big deal if you have clean hands).
Harmful meme :
It is impossible to put Elon Musk in prison immediately for the rest of his life, and it is impossible to seize his whole wealth and redistribute it to each US citizen through public services (costs lives).
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
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By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
#News #Trump #DOGE #Data #Climate #Health #Environment #Immigration #Science #Education
Democratic Lawmakers Blast Trump Administration’s VA Cuts After ProPublica Investigation
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The lawmakers also accused Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins of stonewalling their efforts to learn more about agency cuts and their effects. “There are real-life dangerous impacts for veterans,” Rep. Chris Deluzio said.
#News #Veterans #Healthcare #Health #Democrats #Congress #Government #USPolitics
Drug companies in the U.S. face few restraints on what to charge for their products. A bipartisan bill would penalize those companies that sell their drugs at higher prices than the average of the prices in other wealthy nations.
https://www.propublica.org/article/why-americans-pay-more-for-prescription-drugs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Drugs #Pharma #Health #Healthcare #Cancer #Business #Congress
The #GOP’s New #Medicaid Denialism
Unable to defend their #healthcare #cuts on the merits, congressional #Republicans have pivoted to magical thinking.
Republicans in #Congress claim to have achieved something truly miraculous. Their One Big Beautiful Bill Act, they argue, would cut nearly $800B from Medicaid spending over 10yrs without causing any Americans to lose #health care—or, at least, without making anyone who loses health care worse off.
#law #Trump
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/medicaid-cuts-tax-bill/683018/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxehuZomZV-OE0U-cMvwG0vA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Who wants fresh lemonade?🍋
Fresh and juicy - handmade acrylic painting
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#drink #art #AYearForArt #painting #artist #arte #TraditionalArt #kunst #contemporaryArt #fruits #fresh #health #vegan #smile #happy #food #foodie #happiness #goodvibes #handmade #MastoArt #FediArt #FediGiftShop #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #creativeToots #BuyIntoArt
Wildfire smoke kills more than the flames.
Stay safe: check air quality, stay indoors, use HEPA filters, wear an N95 if outside.
https://buff.ly/byCQJys
"There’s no opting out of being tracked: if you drive, you should simply assume that these cameras are logging your movements.
A Texas police officer used Flock to perform a nationwide search of more than 83,000 ALPR cameras while looking for a woman who had had an abortion."
But who cares?
The only danger to women are trans women in bathroom and sports! /s
#feminism #texas #abortion #civilright #womensrights #health #science #tech #privacy #news #media #women
#Trump’s #EPA rollbacks would weaken rules projected to save billions of dollars—& thousands of lives.
When the head of the EPA announced a wide-ranging rollback of #environmental #regulations, he said it would put a “dagger through the heart of #ClimateChange *religion*” [whatever that is] & introduce a “Golden Age”for the American economy.
What Lee Zeldin didn’t mention: how ending the rules could have devastating consequences to human #health.
#Trump #PublicHealth #law
https://apnews.com/article/epa-zeldin-pollution-rules-analysis-savings-health-0a289aec2507ed38d386680afdd0ea45
Listen to Your Sleeping Dreams! - Tuning In
#psychology #health #art #MentalHealth
So the lesson from my story is, listen to your dreams! What parts of you might you have left behind, things that make your heart sing and that help you connect to yourself and others? If you don’t know, but you nevertheless feel a kind of nagging emptiness in living that you can’t quite define, the clues you need may already be in your own dreams, if you can learn to listen.
http://www.ajschuler.com/blog/listen-to-you-dreams
There were two approaches to dealing with the outbreak of measles that spread through the rural community of Gaines County, Texas earlier this year. Dr. Ben Edwards — himself sick with the virus — handed out cod liver oil and prescribed inhalers, neither of which can prevent or cure measles. Meanwhile the waiting room at the only hospital in Seminole, the county's largest town, was virtually empty. On one recent weekday, just four people had come by Gaines County's free vaccine clinic. NBC's Brandy Zadrozny reports on the spread of misinformation, a child's death that brought anti-vaccine activists to town, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s involvement, and the situation now that the outbreak has run its course.
#Science #Health #News #Texas #USPolitics #RFK #RobertFKennedy #Measles #Misinformation #AntiVax #Vaccines
Judge deems #Trump's #NIH grant cuts illegal
A federal judge in Boston on Monday said the termination of National Institutes of #Health #grants for #research on #diversity-related topics by Trump's admin's was "void & illegal," & accused the government of discriminating against minorities & #LGBT people.
#law #science #medicine
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/federal-judge-says-trump-cuts-nih-grants-are-illegal-politico-reports-2025-06-16/
Trump administration must restore health articles scrubbed for transgender mentions, judge rules
#Trump #trans #health #LGBTQ #erasure #discrimination #censorship #press
Turns out, boredom may have some advantages. @ScienceAlert explains in more detail, including how we all need to “embrace the pause.”
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Over 100 years ago, El Paso became the first city in the USA to ban marijuana. Now, #Texas is renewing its commitment to tradition with a bill that will destroy 10,000s of jobs if it goes into effect, fully banning all products with THC despite years of normalization of their usage in our state.
My latest for the @TexasObserver: https://www.texasobserver.org/dan-patrick-texas-devastating-thc-ban/
#drugs #health #cannabis #news #politics #USpol #TXlege #law #police
finished watching Novocaine 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
Are #CIPA movies a thing? I learned it existed thanks to an episode of House (I owe that show most of my medical "knowledge") Years later I watched that little movie where the protagonist is an assassin insensitive to pain, The Midnight Man (2016) https://neodb.social/movie/0VkEK52ooUYWCGksk08HyL Now there's Novocaine too, that I know of. CIPA keeps coming up on my screen without me having ever looked for it.
I'm wondering if these shows help by raising awareness of a rare disorder, I did read a couple of articles after I watched House, so it kind of worked for me, I'm aware. Maybe some public interest could even get studies funded... or maybe this kind of thing (not talking about Novocaine in particular) is just a bit exploitative and doesn't help any patients at all.
Opinions welcome.
#HSANIV #films #tv #spoonies #polyneuropathy #awareness #health #media
We obtained records showing how a DOGE staffer with no medical experience used AI to identify which VA contracts to kill.
His tool concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-veterans-affairs-ai-contracts-health-care?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said prepackaged foods have “mass poisoned” tribal communities.
But the Trump administration ended a program that tribal food banks relied on for fresh, locally produced food important to their traditions and cultures.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tribal-food-grant-cuts-trump-rfk-jr?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #RFKJr #Trump #Health #Food #Native #Indigenous #Nutrition #Culture
If books could kill: The poison legacy lurking in libraries
The Poison Book Project tested books and drew up a list of titles which are potentially harmful to humans.
By Pauline McLean
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2y9xq58no
Poison Book Project:
https://sites.udel.edu/poisonbookproject/
RFK Jr. says the CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy pregnant women.
Yet doctors have found that stillbirths can result from COVID directly infiltrating the placenta — even for people whose COVID symptoms were mild or nonexistent.
#News #Covid #Vaccines #RFKJr #PublicHealth #Health #Pregnancy #Women