"Government website https://reproductiverights.gov appeared to be offline on the evening of President Donald Trump's inauguration.
The site, launched in 2022 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of a public awareness campaign, contained information on access to abortion and reproductive health care and a Know-Your-Rights patient fact sheet."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-website-offering-reproductive-health-information-goes-offline/
[#]healthcare #ReproductiveJustice #ReproductiveHealth #contraception #pregnancy #abortion #ACA #USpol
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"The executive order goes beyond semantics, mandating changes with immediate and far-reaching consequences. It directs federal agencies to rewrite policies and remove references to gender identity. Passports, social security records, and other government-issued identification documents will now be required to reflect only an individual’s sex assigned at birth."
https://www.advocate.com/politics/donald-trump-invalidates-transgender-identities
[#]healthcare #lgbtq #transgender #identification #schools #incarceration #prisons #USpol
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"President Trump moved quickly on Monday to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, a move that public health experts say will undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic...Leaving the W.H.O. would mean, among other things, that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would have no access to the global data that the agency provides."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/trump-world-health-organization.html
[#]PublicHealth #WHO #GlobalHealth #USpol
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"President Donald Trump said he will begin to make changes this week to a handful of health measures.
In his inaugural speech in Washington on Monday, the 47th president promised to reverse actions taken against military members who declined to follow the Covid-19 vaccine mandate, which Congress repealed in 2023...He also said the federal government will recognize only two genders: male and female."
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/20/donald-trump-inauguration-day-news-updates-analysis/trump-promises-health-actions-00199397
[#]healthcare #covid #transgender #disaster #PublicHealth #USpol
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"...the appeal to nature fallacy deserves space as Congress evaluates RFK Jr.’s eligibility to run a $1.8 trillion agency and far-reaching public health policy. Wellness marketing has made this idea extremely popular, but as a public health policy, it is overly simplistic, biased against technological advances, and can potentially harm our health."
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/heres-what-were-getting-ourselves?r=g9qbz
En español: https://suepidemiologolocal.substack.com/p/esto-es-en-lo-que-nos-estamos-metiendo
[#]healthcare #PublicHealth #wellness #natural #HHS #NIH #FDA #USpol
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"Youngmi Mayer, Korean comedian and writer, rose to social media fame for mocking casual racism white people seem to get away with in everyday life. But she also dishes out brutal critiques of Korean culture, too – the perks of being biracial. In her new memoir, I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying, Mayer writes about humor as a tool of survival for the generations of Korean women in her family, from her grandmother to her present self."
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/1224776149/why-laughing-while-crying-is-so-korean
[#]aapi #aanhpi #podcast #korean
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“The supplement field is largely unregulated. These companies are not required to meet any standards of safety or efficacy before they go to market with a new product,” Harrison says. “As a result, there’s a lot of supplements that are simply ineffective or don’t actually contain what they claim to contain.”
https://www.eater.com/24032856/greens-powders-health-benefits-bloom-huel
[#]health #wellbeing #supplements #vitamins #diet #food #nutrition
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"Recently, readers have asked why I consistently highlight the enormous donations from Republicans and not Democrats.
Honestly, if Democrats ever managed to do something besides lose elections, I promise, dear reader, I’d report on their relationship to wealth with equal fervor."
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🎁: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/texas-campaign-donations-democrats-republicans-20036492.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaG91c3RvbmNocm9uaWNsZS5jb20vYnVzaW5lc3MvY29sdW1uaXN0cy90b21saW5zb24vYXJ0aWNsZS90ZXhhcy1jYW1wYWlnbi1kb25hdGlvbnMtZGVtb2NyYXRzLXJlcHVibGljYW5zLTIwMDM2NDkyLnBocA%3D%3D&time=MTczNzMwNTk1MDc0Nw%3D%3D&rid=MDcyMjg5MTAtNzRlYS00OGUyLTlmODQtNjI5ZTE0Zjg0MzRi&sharecount=MA%3D%3D
[#]texas #txlege #donors #donations #politics #ethics #corruption #billionaires #USpol
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"Four diseases, all connected, now threaten the nation’s social and moral health: racism, poverty, environmental devastation, and the war economy—sanctified by the heresy of Christian nationalism. Since the 2016 presidential election, when white rage propelled a candidate endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan into the White House, racism has been more prominent in public life."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/02/a-new-poor-peoples-campaign/552503/
[#]race #racism #poverty #class #labor #environment #economics #VotingRights #CivilRights #PublicHealth
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’
"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/02/letter-from-a-birmingham-jail/552461/
[#]DirectAction #nonviolence #CivilDisobedience #MLK
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"The people that we've worked with over years and years have told us this, and I can personally testify to it," says Thompson, "if you learn this skill with an object or a painting, you start to use it in your everyday life as well. You start to notice the beauty and the simplicity of things. And it makes you appreciate them on a whole other level."
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250108-museum-manchester-trend-attention-span
[#]PublicHealth #wellness #wellbeing #mindfulness #meditation #art #observation #museum #gallery
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This interview of Renee Zellwegger by Hugh Grant is the funniest thing I've read all weekend.
https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/renee-zellweger-british-vogue-interview-2025
[#]entertainment #interview #movies #films
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"It’s funny and entertaining — and Palmer is naturally both of those things — but you also get the sense that she is a person who spends a lot of time on the sidelines, observing other people and taking notes. 'I don’t think there’s anything more tragic than being a person,' she says. 'And exploring all the ways that people deal with the chaos is, I think, coping for me.'"
https://www.thecut.com/article/keke-palmer-one-of-them-days-interview.html
[#]entertainment #movies #films
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A few years ago, some Texas Doctors for America colleagues and I were critical about a physician who was spreading misinformation about hydroxychloroquine's effectiveness against COVID: https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2020/12/06/letters-to-the-editor-doctors-for-america-offers-advice-the-us-election-system-klyde-warren-park-fountain-supreme-court-decision-on-church-attendance/
He struck back: https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2020/12/12/letters-to-the-editor-doctors-defend-the-use-of-hcq-oak-cliff-log-cabin-male-aggression-freedom-to-worship-ut-coach-fred-akers/
Fast forward to present day. Guess who lost his board certification? https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/113624
[#]healthcare #covid #hydroxychloroquine #PrescriptionDrugs #misinformation #disinformation #texas #physicians #boards #BoardCertification
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"...patient advocacy is integral to health care. Medical professionals constantly battle insurance companies and pharmacy benefit managers to get our patients’ medical treatments covered. We tussle with our own institutions to expedite CT scans and medical appointments...But in this upcoming era we may have to face off against our own federal government."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/opinion/mass-deportations-undocumented-immigrants-health.html
[#]healthcare #physicians #nurses #advocacy #immigrants #immigration #USpol #ethics #CivilRights #HumanRights
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"I now think the Oscars should completely overhaul their formula in 2025. They should do something more radical: sideline the whole awards part.
On Sunday, Rosanna Arquette suggested on Instagram that the Oscars should be converted into 'the greatest telethon in the world.' Not since Roberta hit Nolan over the head with a wine bottle in Desperately Seeking Susan has Arquette landed a blow as forceful."
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/2025-oscars-ceremony-los-angeles-fires-suggestions-1236107760/
[#]LAfires #disaster #DisasterRelief #aid #oscars #entertainment
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"The price hikes at the clinic happened for a reason that is symptomatic of the tangled web of federal policies that regulate drug pricing. In 2024, drug makers lowered the sticker price of dozens of common medications, which allowed them to avoid massive penalties imposed by the American Rescue Plan, the Covid relief package passed three years earlier. But that change backfired for low-income people."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/health/insulin-prices-federal-clinics-340b.html
[#]healthcare #PrescriptionDrugs #340B #HealthPolicy
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"Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday she wants to impose work requirements on some Medicaid recipients, hoping to revive and expand a restriction that was blocked by the courts but could get a new life under the Trump administration...More than 18,000 people lost coverage when Arkansas previously enacted work requirements under Sanders’ predecessor, Asa Hutchinson, in 2018."
https://apnews.com/article/arkansas-work-requirements-medicaid-trump-a62460a816216faae450155fcd18317e
[#]healthcare #insurance #ACA #Medicaid #arkansas
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"On the company’s first earnings call since the fatal shooting of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson, CEO Andrew Witty said that while the U.S. provides world-leading care in many respects, there are systemic flaws that are working to drive up health costs for people in the country."
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/unitedhealth-ceo-says-us-health-system-needs-function-better-rcna187980
[#]healthcare #insurance #PrescriptionDrugs #PBM #CostsOfCare
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"Still, once in office, Trump and his administration would have substantial power to further restrict abortion. And with Roe overturned, the avenues to do so are larger than they were last time."
https://19thnews.org/2025/01/how-trump-could-impact-abortion-policy/
[#]healthcare #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #USpol
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