Imagine being a member of Congress during a once in a lifetime national emergency and deciding you had nothing better to do with the day than try to get a line atty fired for posting an easily-verifiable fact about your office. The office was closed. Anyone could go & see. There was a sign!
Congressman Andy Biggs, or maybe someone on his staff, called my boss and tried to get me fired because I had the audacity to point out (to my 1k Twitter followers) his hypocrisy. He closed his offices during COVID, while demanding everything else remain open for the "economy."
Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.
At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.
Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”
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AND Buck v. Bell!!!???!!!??? What horror is this?
I smell smoke and hear the distinct sounds of a fiddle.
The best descriptor for this progress is miraculous, even though it's a purely scientific breakthrough. Decade after decade there was ZERO progress against this horrific, nearly uniformly fatal cancer. It's unspeakable that we are turning our back on the 1st real improvement in half a century.
Flyer with a light gray background. On the upper left is a purple silhouetted human head in profile. On the upper right is the neurodiversity rainbow infinity symbol. Text reads, "Research Participants Needed. "Non-autistic siblings required who have grown up with Autistic siblings. "I am a final year MSc student at University of Portsmouth. I am seeking to recruit non-autistic siblings who grew up with autistic siblings to take part in research for my final project. "This would be an excellent opportunity for non-autistic siblings to share their lived experience about growing up with non-autistic sibling(s). If you are interested and meet the criteria below please get in touch. "Criteria Required: "•18 years+ and be non-Autistic "•Sibling(s) must be diagnosed autistic and require some level of support "•Available to be interviewed through Zoom/Teams "Interested? If you would like to take part or are interested to find out more, then please message me or email Rebecca.Scully@myport.ac.uk"
Hey there non-autistic siblings of autistic people! Want to participate in research about your lived experience? Contact researcher Rebecca.Scully@myport.ac.uk. More info on flyer/in alt-text.
Everyone should read this story to understand what is happening at SCOTUS.
82% abandon the treatment suggested BY THEIR DOCTOR due to insurance co. interference. It's a feature (for them), not a bug.
Any form of communication is acceptable and must be supported.
People who think that non-speakers aren't communicating/are under the control of someone else aren't listening or paying attention. My LO used her AAC independently (& better than me) from the moment she got it at 3 yrs old.
Not enough people are talking about how hard it is to provide a nutritious, home-cooked dinner at a consistent, reasonable hour when you work a full-time job.
Not medically necessary? This man died because a company that makes BILLIONS of dollars wouldn't authorize $50k in treatment. They fought him straight into an earlier grave.
For profit medicine is literally killing us.
Why process the student loan forgiveness for people who served the public rather than enrich themselves, based on promises made by Congress two decades ago, when you can instead wage an unpopular & illegal war?
Source: Forbes
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"A house is so many things. A refuge, a sanctuary, an investment so important to me that I’m willing to destroy an entire generation’s chance at housing in order to lock in my own profits."
Your child could get cancer from a sexual assault. That is why you should get the HPV vaccine.
There are a lot of other reasons, but for those who think an anticancer vaccine leads to sex....
Listen, he probably DID really think this was a picture of him as a doctor.
Because that's how unfamiliar he is with Christian iconography. Which should be damning to his base.
If your hospital closes and the next closest is only 6 miles farther, your risk of dying just went up by 1% regardless of what conditions you do or don’t have & regardless of anything about you or choices you make. Now imagine how bad 33 miles is.
I want my taxes to lower everyone’s risk of dying.
Vote. Every. Election.
Autistic voices, in whatever form, are necessary for true world class research. It will make the world better for everyone. #Momvocate
It is quite astonishing to be at a park in 90 degree heat, after the hottest March in recorded history for all of the western half the US, to see a grown man w/a wife and kids writing "Climate change isn't real" in sidewalk chalk.
This is why the HPV vaccine is so important. Doesn't matter if you're married. Or a virgin. Or whatever. There is sexual assault or your partner can cheat on you. Protect yourselves and your kids.
Source: People.com
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When Jay Bhattacharya & RFK Jr canceled federal funding for mRNA vaccine R&D, they wrote 2 of the most putrid OpEds I’ve ever seen—full of vile, pathetic lies
I was interviewed about those OpEds here: www.bioxconomy.com/modalities/e...
One of the most damaging decisions in public health history
So essential that it's one of the few Congressional functions expressly spelled out in the Constitution.
The idea that doctors are getting rich off from administering childhood vaccines is risible. It's not true. Doesn't happen.
Pediatricians recommend vaccines either b/c they've seen the diseases they protect kids from, or hope they never do. #Momvocate
Just what we need. To pay for the privilege of having our stuff rifled through and our privacy invaded.
It won't be more efficient, either. It never is.
Trump pushes privatizing TSA share.google/Gy1oUQvnWNKD...
I'm from the generation where being a teen mom was a huge scarlet letter. Especially among the "party of family values."
The leadership at HHS has an agenda, and that is to deprive the United States of vaccines, most especially COVID19 vaccines.
These people have no problem making claims about their belief that COVID19 vaccines are harmful without any data at all.
Now they are hiding data showing the benefits.
Yeah, so as I had feared, RFK Jr. went and did it. New charter for ACIP is out today.
Quote from @drdemetre.bsky.social
“The new charter shifts ACIP into an organization focused more on risk and has provided a platform for organizations that have historically been opponents of vaccination”.
Local elections are incredibly important. And they're where your vote often has the most impact!