"Obstetrics care could be hit especially hard. It’s one of the most expensive categories of service provided by hospitals. And Medicaid funds nearly 40 percent of all births in the U.S." wamu.org/story/26/04/...
Does everyone not have an old Warby Parker box full of baby teeth in a kitchen cabinet then?
This is the correct approach to Passover. Chag sameyach!
To be honest I have posted this exact gif to MANY pesach recipes. It applies.
Add this to the infamous Amy Klobuchar eating salad with a comb story for the Democratic presidential hopefuls being weird about salad files….
My Pittsburgh public high school had a “Great American” speech competition every year with a $1000 college scholarship as the prize.
Eventually they had to ban Jonas Salk as a subject because so many of us gave our all in soaring oration about polio vaccines. Also banned grandparents.
Who better to unpack the history of blood transfusion than Prof. Susan Lederer? She joined Helen Osborne for The Blood Project's Talking about Blood podcast — a deep dive into the cultural and ethical dimensions of one of medicine's most charged histories. #MedicalHistory
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Heinz ketchup factory of course, complete with free pickle pin souvenir at the end. Riding the Duquesne incline. Touring the Cathedral of Learning’s nationality rooms.
Somehow just seeing this now. A quick thread on some (maybe) historical parallels. Breakfast cereal first starting being embraced in the US around the same time (and often via the same proponents of) that vegetarianism takes on a particular hypermasculine form at the end of the 19th century. (1/x)
Cover art for The Long Winter, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
2026
For all the breathless talk about the supposedly useless liberal arts majors out there, I'm hard pressed (bench-pressed, even...) to think of a more relevant major than Women's and Gender Studies for understanding what is going on in the United States right now.
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Postage stamp with smiling child, text reading “dental health.”
Sheet of 4 stamps depicting man in wheelchair working in a factory.
I’ll leave you with this celebration of dental health on the centennial of the American Dental Association, and an exhortation to “employ the handicapped,” both from mid-20th century. Have a good night.
But sometimes I think about my bright dad as a kid pasting a stamp of Harvey Wiley into his collection, and then I think about today’s overlapping news stories about the FDA and vaccine reviews/schedules and man…
Today, this stamp celebrating 50years of the Pure Food and Drug Act was on my mind. I know better than to romanticize an era of what I know were deeply imperfect policies and even less perfect implementation,
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1957 postage stamp celebrating the fight against polio.
Look at this sweet 1957 stamp from his collection celebrating those who “helped fight polio.” Read more about it here: www.si.edu/object/3c-po...
1931 Red Cross commemorative stamp. And timely Winter Olympics one to boot!
A few years ago, my dad gave us his boyhood stamp collection. I’m always struck by how many of the stamps are celebrating scientific and medical milestones and institutions.
Your son might find it a bit too juvenile encountering for the first time at 15, but my basketball-obsessed 15 year old rereads The Crossover by Kwame Alexander at least every year, we have both the regular and graphic novel versions.
I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)"
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
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The 40-something year old impulse to yell out all the voices and actors you recognize and everything they’ve been in during family movie night…
One of my all time favorites:
Very cool research blending history, climate, engineering, culture, religion, check it out:
If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...
Real talk though… this slaw is so good it may be the answer to *some* problems dianerehm.org/shows/2012-1...
Huzzah! Congratulations friend!
This is also a debate in my family. I am A and only A. Close family is B and they call this option “a shmix.”
As in, “ooh I love a shmix for breakfast tomorrow”
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