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https://juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affirming-care-for-trans-youth-is-neither-new-nor-experimental-a-timeline-and-compilation-b4bb8375d797 #trans #transgender #LGBTQ #lgbtqia #health #science
Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation of Studies
NOTE: this essay is a 15 minute read. If it’s listed as longer than that, it’s because it contains a list of over 100 references at the end. Trans and gender-diverse people are a pancultural and…Julia Serano (Medium)
Did you know that the first paramedics were Black Pittsburghers? The wildly successful program they were in became a model across the USA, but in Pittsburgh itself they were canned and replaced by all-white crews.
There's a whole book about it, American Sirens. https://time.com/6215072/first-paramedics-black-men-history/
#BlackHistoryMonth #medicine #paramedic #emergency #health #Pittsburgh
The Little-Known History of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics
In "American Sirens," author Kevin Hazzard spotlights the Black men in Pittsburgh who pioneered America's modern emergency medical service.Olivia B. Waxman (Time)
The vast majority of melatonin gummies sold in the US may contain up to 347% more melatonin than is listed on the label, new research shows
Investigators found that consuming some products as directed could expose consumers, including children, to doses that are 40 to 130 times greater than what's recommended
#usa #health #medicine #news #sleep #remedy #otc #fda
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/991215
Majority of Melatonin Gummies in the US Inaccurately Labeled
The vast majority of melatonin gummies sold in the US may contain up to 347% more melatonin than is listed on the label, new research shows.Megan Brooks (Medscape)
Credit: David Rogers
https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Movie_-_Neutrophil_chasing_bacteria
#health #biology #science #phagocytosis
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After a college student finally found a treatment for his ulcerative colitis that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs.
His fight to finally get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.
#Insurance #UnitedHealthcare #Health #Healthcare #DenialOfCare
https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Inside UnitedHealth’s Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient’s Care
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.ProPublica
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35035272
#NICHDImpact #Covid19 #Health #PublicHealth
Incorporating respondent-driven sampling into web-based discrete choice experiments: preferences for COVID-19 mitigation measures - PubMed
To slow the spread of COVID-19, most countries implemented stay-at-home orders, social distancing, and other nonpharmaceutical mitigation strategies.PubMed
I am a professor invested in public communication/informing the public/#scicomm: I post on topics related to #publichealth, #policy, & #community life. This includes stuff on #vaccinations, #pandemic preparedness, dis-/#misinformation, various things #COVID19, and disparities in all sorts of #health outcomes across different social groups (by #income, #race/#ethnicity, #gender, & sexual identity, geography).
"Legislation passed by parliament on Tuesday means that anyone born after 2008 will never be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products. The bill is also designed to limit the number of retailers able to sell smoked tobacco products to 600 nationwide - down from 6,000 currently - and reduce nicotine levels in products to make them less addictive."
We need this everywhere.
#health (1/2)
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#Google had a confidential plan to turn the collection—slivers of skin, #tumor biopsies & slices of organs from #veterans—into an immense archive that could help create tools to aid the diagnosis & treatment of #cancer & other #diseases. And it would seek first, exclusive dibs to do so.
“The chief concern,” Google’s liaison in the #military warned, “is keeping this out of the press.”
#privacy #ethics #DOD #Health
https://www.propublica.org/article/google-human-tissue-jpc-military?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Google’s Quest to Digitize Valuable Military Tissue Samples
Staff at the DOD’s Joint Pathology Center have thwarted Google’s efforts to digitize priceless data from veterans’ tissue samples. The tech giant might win anyway.ProPublica
What’s concerning though: Amazon’s “new favorite child” is its health tech business. The last thing we need is more privatization and tech companies distracting us from what matters in healthcare.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-alexa-job-layoffs-rise-and-fall-2022-11
#amazon #tech #health
Amazon is gutting its voice assistant Alexa
Mounting losses and massive job cuts for the former pet project of Jeff Bezos underscore a failure in the hardware business model Amazon pioneered.Eugene Kim (Insider)
📜 I will not participate in or organize events that do not have robust #Health and #Safety policies.
✍🏽 Voice your commitment too. Join and sign on to the Public Health Pledge #PHPledge.
:boost_requested: Please boost for visibility!
https://phpledge.com
The Public Health Pledge, committing to safer and more inclusive events
We are committing to safer and more inclusive events. You can too.phpledge.com
#cignewtons #fignewtons #cigarettes #health #vape
