Getting more Democrats behind this should be a priority for progressives in the USA.
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AP Exclusive: #Trump admin admits it used faulty numbers in its #NewYork #Medicaid #health “fraud” accusations
Trump’s administration this week acknowledged it made a significant error in figures it used to help justify a fraud probe into New York’s Medicaid program, a glaring mistake that undercuts a federal campaign to tackle waste, mostly in #Democratic-led #states.
#idiocracy #kakistocracy #RevengePolitics #law #HealthInsurance
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-medicaid-fraud-dr-oz-trump-342285a3c5d5b71f36ce3f3c77ec72c5
A book I’m looking forward to, a burst of new music and Bob Mould on all things Sugar reunion and Hüsker Dü - here’s this week’s digest of punk rock, alt rock and indie music news and writing.
#music #punk #indie #IndieMusic #AltRock #AlternativeRock #SteveAlbini #BobMould #JohnnyMarr #HighVis #Health
Carers (like me) many of whom receive carers' allowance (but also many do not due to the tight eligibility criteria, most around the commitment of hours to caring) contribute around £184bn to the UK economy; a saving (or subsidy to the state) of around three quarters of the NHS overall budget.
Yet, we're marginalised, treated as cheats by the DWP & generally left partly or fully unsupported - if it looks like social exploitation, it is!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/11/carers-allowance-britain-unpaid-workforce
#Idaho Cut Services for People With Schizophrenia. Then the #Deaths Began.
Eliminating outreach to people with severe mental illness set off such a cascade of bad outcomes that Idaho has scrambled to reverse.
#law #policy #PublicHealth #health #government #SocialServices #MentalHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/health/idaho-mental-health-act-cuts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
We know that the NHS has a (partially hidden) culture of management bullying, so we might have expected that those staff criticising the use of Palantir in the NHS (on which I posted a couple of weeks ago) might be subject to managerial pressure... and sure enough they have been.
The FT reports analysts complaining about Palantir have been threatened with the sack if they do not buckled down & use the disputed technology.
Unsurprising but unwelcome & divisive!
"Even my mother … doesn’t want to accept that she might suffer Long COVID because she saw what happened to me with my sickness. … Everyone is so scared to be sick like me."
https://thesicktimes.org/2026/04/14/long-covid-is-significantly-underreported-across-the-globe/
#SCOTUS restores #access to #abortion pill #mifepristone through telehealth, mail & pharmacies
#law #health #medicine #AbortionIsHealthcare #WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #Republicans #ViolenceAgainstWomen
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-pills-mifepristone-supreme-court-louisiana-0533e83d67148fdfec53b1d0d30c1e8a
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
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The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Parenting #Health #PublicHealth #Science #Medicine #Children
ProPublica identified at least 79 children who’ve been left screaming, unable to breathe, or otherwise hurt by tear gas and pepper spray during Trump’s historic immigration crackdown.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kids-tear-gas-trump-immigration-crackdown?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Immigration #ICE #DHS #Trump #Children #Health #Minneapolis #Portland
🚨🚨🚨 RFKJr’s “health” officials explored US #ban of some widely-used #antidepressants🚨🚨🚨
#US #health dept ofcls last week explored whether they could ban certain drugs in a widely prescribed class of #antidepressants as #HHS Secy #RFKJr prepared to roll out a plan to reduce their use….
Their interest centered on…selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or #SSRIs, such as #Zoloft, #Prozac & #Lexapro, which have been available in the US for decades….
#MentalHealth
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/kennedys-health-officials-explored-us-ban-some-widely-used-antidepressants-2026-05-08/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
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#Trump admin shutting key #US researchers out of #global #virus response talks, documents & sources reveal
Key officials responsible for leading US #research on #InfectiousDisease threats have been #barred from speaking directly with the #WorldHealthOrganization [#WHO] — effectively shutting some of them out of the global discussions on virus #outbreaks, according to documents & multiple sources.
#nationalism #BrainDrain #medicine #science #health #PublicHealth #NIAID
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/25/politics/global-virus-response-trump-administration
#RFKJr Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into #Vaccines Despite Recent Public Silence
“Health” Secy Robert F Kennedy Jr has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside the #HHS, a sprawling “research” effort is top priority.
#Trump #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics #disinformation #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #HealthInsurance #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #PublicHealth #Health #science #medicine #policy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/health/kennedy-vaccine-safety.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
The head of the #FDA, Dr. #MartyMakary, is resigning after a rocky tenure that drew months of complaints from “#health” industry” executives, anti-abortion activists, vaping lobbyists & other allies of #Trump.
He steps down after just over a year leading the powerful health regulatory agency….
Kyle Diamantas, FDA’s chief for foods, will take over as acting commissioner…. Diamantas is an attorney with personal ties to Donald Trump Jr. 🙄 [not a scientist or doctor]
#law
https://apnews.com/article/fda-trump-makary-kennedy-vaccines-drugs-ef151784342c48cca3b91a829d615b5e
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#JasonCollins, the first openly #gay #NBA player who has served as a global ambassador for the sport for the past decade, died from brain #cancer, family said Tuesday. He was 47.
Collins told ESPN in November that he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 #glioblastoma, one of the deadliest forms of #BrainCancer.
#health #medicine #LGBTQ #advocates #RepresentationMatters
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/48753479/jason-collins-dies-47
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Art is good for you! Go make some, go enjoy some!
"These results demonstrate the health impact of the arts at a biological level."
This week's net.wars, "First, do no harm", visits the UK's latest attempt to centralize the nation's patient data into a single database: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/05/22/first-do-no-harm/ #NetWars #health #privacy
Please share this and help us get out of here. The situation is getting worse by the day—there is a shortage of water, food, medicine, and basic necessities. Help us escape this slow death!
#gaza
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@Mohamadsohiel
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“I combined my passion for enabling others and creating societal impact with my experience in healthcare decision-making, moving into governmental affairs and patient advocacy. Today, I work at the interface of science, policy and society, bringing together companies, patient organisations and institutions. My mathematical background helps me translate between perspectives (...).” - Johanna Grames
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[view on social.lol]On Taking Care of The Self
It is with a slow dawning that I have come to notice, day after day, the multitude of unspoken assumptions that haunt me like ghosts, ever present yet scarcely acknowledged. They're the soft, invisible mandates that require me to approve of particular narratives, to the quiet adoption of certain scripts that have become, in our present age, almost cultural orthodoxy. Among these scripts, perhaps the most ubiquitous is the well‑intentioned, if not occasionally perfunctory, messaging of […]
https://untilted.weblog.lol/2026/06/on-taking-care-of-the-self
#PersonalBlog #Blog #Weblog #MentalHealth #SelfCare #SelfCompassion #SocialMedia #Gratitude #Pressure #Expectations #Mental #Physical #Health #Psychology #Technology #Tech #Adjacent #ThisIsNotAWordPressBlog
Emily Waldorf faced a life-threatening miscarriage.
Even after she met the hospital’s CEO, called the governor and hired a lawyer, she couldn’t get care in the country’s “most pro-life state.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/arkansas-abortion-ban-miscarriage-care?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Arkansas #Women #Health #Law #Abortion #Medicine #USPolitics
Three U.S. senators have called for an overhaul of federal agents’ use of tear gas and pepper spray, citing a ProPublica investigation that found at least 79 children were hurt by these chemicals during Trump’s immigration crackdown.
#News #Congress #Law #Senate #ICE #Immigration #Protest #Children #Health
No doomscrolling past your bedtime!
"There are possible causes from the physiology that arises from poor sleep, but also the fact that when sleep-deprived it’s difficult to live a healthy life."
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/30/poor-sleep-linked-rising-cancer-risk-under-50s