This is terrible.
Community Psychiatrist for 20 years. Looking for partners who are motivated to reverse the end-stage collapse of the community mental health system. #PWDP #Medsky
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This is terrible.
Next up is an #SGEMHOP looking at ED utilization by youth before and after firearm injury. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... @meganranney.bsky.social @mdaware.org @kirstychallen.bsky.social #MedSky
Microplastics are linked to inflammation, fertility issues & more. Top Researcher's Tips to Cut Microplastic Exposure: ✅ Avoid processed foods ✅ Don’t microwave plastic ✅ HEPA vacuums ✅ Go fragrance-free 🔗 archive.is/Ni8Pt Systemic changes are needed too. #medsky #toxosky 🛟🧪
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“physicians and researchers who treat and study PPD note that a combination of genetics, a history of anxiety and depression, and psychosocial factors can play a role in the development of the disorder…it can be effectively treated through a combination of therapy, medication, and support groups.”
From the article: “Wendy N. Davis, a psychotherapist and the president and CEO of Postpartum Support International, to get her take on the panelists’ characterization of perinatal depression. “That kind of thinking is not evidence-based,” she said, “and not even anecdotally true.”
As someone who has treated women with all kinds of depression: lifelong, perinatal, postpartum…any true expert understands the difference between “natural emotions” and depression. Not getting out of bed for over a week and self-deprecating AH are not natural. Suicide is real. Meds can save lives.
“Hungarians with little power or privilege to lose would occasionally protest. But those with power remained reliably, pliably silent.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
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GoFundMe has set up a page for the Texan flood victims. Each campaign has been verified by the company's Trust & Safety experts, which means you know your money is going directly to families. Please consider donating if you can. Their stories are heartbreaking. www.gofundme.com/c/act/flood-...
Would be nice if he spends the next year fighting for NC now that he isn’t having to worry about a primary challenger. Tillis Announces He Won’t Run Again as Trump Threatens Him With a Primary www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
😂 🤣 😂
A judge ruled EPA termination of environmental justice grants was unlawful. EPA cannot “thumb its nose at Congress” by refusing to spend appropriated funds, the judge wrote.
This ad needs a trigger warning.
"In these situations, one expects to hear that the shooter was in the midst of a psychotic episode." Instead, he was a seemingly functional, deeply religious family man. That is terrifying.
Caveat emptor and due diligence applies to consumption of any internet service or information. AI is wildly unregulated.
Imagine using CBT to improve your daily experience and prevent cognitive decline.
How LITTLE an effort went into the #MAHA report? Seems worse than a 4th grader’s use of CHAT GPT…but Oh So Consequential. What goodness it might contain is far outweighed by the damage it does. Sloppy, irresponsible, tragic. #medsky #graphicmedicine
We Need to Talk About Maternal Mental Health—Before It’s Too Late www.self.com/story/big-li... #Life #Health #Wellness #Medical #MentalHealth #Maternal #MaternalMentalHealth #Moms #Mothers #Kids #Children #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthAwareness #MedSky
Curcumin, found in turmeric shows promise in brain-related diseases. While it has a shown anti-inflammatory & brain-protective effects, its clinical use is limited by challenges like poor absorption, specificity, and delivery to the right tissues. #Medsky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A wise person once said… It is far better to die from cancer beneath a big beautiful dome, breathing polluted air, than to live in health under a clear sky. Or maybe they didn’t. No matter. If people repeat it enough, eventually manipulated AI will declare it’s real.
Not “criminals” and not “illegals” but the hardest working, brightest people. All of whom enrich our campuses, our economy and our country.
Remember when the GOP argument against the ACA was “they are killing grandma with death panels?” Now the GOP are really all about killing “grandma” and many other Americans with disabilities who rely on Medicaid and Medicare for their lives.
Americans can only be alarmed about these cuts if they hear about them. And therein lies the task for the Democrats. The Navigator poll shows that just 27 percent of Americans have heard “a lot” about Congress proposing cuts to Medicaid.
MAHA actions.
There are at least 50 people we sent to CECOT with no due process who were in the U.S. legally and no criminal record.
Video of DHS Secretary Noem testifying where she shows that she doesn’t understand what habeas corpus is. How can the person in charge of immigration law enforcement be expected to ensure no one was denied habeas corpus if the person leading that department doesn’t know what habeas corpus is?
Called my legislators today as per usual. Today, for the first time, the aide pushed back and said the House budget proposal didn’t mention Medicare or Medicaid at all! Thanks to @5calls.org, I was able to respond with facts in the moment and still insist that my comments be passed on. #PWDP
A comprehensive nonpartisan overview of Medicaid and the proposed cuts. publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-pot...
For those who have a subscription and would like to read past the headline. (I do not subscribe to Wapo). www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Love thy mother and thy father. www.scientificamerican.com/article/medi...
TAC published this in February but it applies now. Call your Senators, please. www.tac.org/statement-on...
All of this. The oath of all federal cabinet members and elected officials is to the constitution. Noem should resign. substack.com/@smallbite/n...
The choice we all face: to speak out or lay low?
Demolishing solid scientific infrastructure: shameful, harmful and dangerous.
🧪Some statistics regarding abortion bans and mortality: 🧵1. Mothers living in states that banned abortion nearly 2x as likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth, or soon after giving birth, compared to mothers living in states where abortion was legal and accessible. thegepi.org/maternal-mor...
Considering that the rate of sepsis increased in Texas women as a result of draconian abortion laws, this cartoon is very relevant. Women still have to fight for their right to bodily autonomy and the right to make private medical decisions that impact their health and their family. This resonates.♀️
Congress just released their initial plan to cut #Medicaid for an estimated 9 million+ Americans, primarily through "community engagement requirements" aka work requirements. We've seen these before. They DON'T work. See why then call your congressperson! #MedSky #BlackSky
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#resist
Haha, well played.
Denying an amputee proper prosthetics is cruel. “The current administration closed the office for civil rights and civil liberties (CRCL) and the office of the immigration detention ombudsman (Oido) last month….at a time when nearly 48,000 detainees are locked up nationwide.”
“Eat your veggies.” —grandma “Eat your veggies, whole grains and legumes.” —JAMA
RIP public health.
My first apartment in 1994 was $350/month. Adjusting for inflation, that apartment should now rent for $744/month. It actually rents for $1500. Greed and inflation are hurting the kids, not their Starbucks lattes.
Just spoke with my CDC sources. RFK Jr. has reportedly instructed officials to stay silent on bird flu transmission and avoid testing farm workers with symptoms. This is a direct attempt to suppress vital information. Pandemics begin with secrecy and cover-ups.
“If you deny the constitutional rights of one man, you threaten the constitutional right to due process for everyone else,” Van Hollen said.
Yes but be careful about this call for control because this is part of the project 2025 plan to declare martial law.
Institutional segregation begins.
“Nothing about us without us”
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Louisiana ranks 2nd in Medicaid enrollment: 32% Of the 8 GOP-held House districts with the most Medicaid enrollees, 4 are in LA. Johnson is pushing for $880B in cuts from a pool of funding that includes Medicaid. In his district, where he won with 86% of the vote, 22% of residents live in poverty.
It’s a sheepdog? It’s a dog wrapped in a wool blanket? It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing? I can’t tell!! 😊
The assertion of the current administration is that all government spending is wasteful and fraudulent. Sadly we won’t see the negative impact of public health and safety until years after these cuts are made, and it will cost much more to repair the damage. Some damage can never be reversed.
It’s a scary time. So feel the fear, metabolize the fear and transcend the fear by working with other people to act with courage and stand tall for democracy and freedom.
The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
This is even more concerning than the tariffs.
This pattern isn’t all that uncommon. It frightens me that in a justice system that routinely violates constitutional protections, we are now superimposing complete disregard for due process at the federal level. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/u...
On days like this I remember there was time people when people applauded frontline responders of the pandemic every night. Public health workers, doctors, nurses etc.. How quickly we went from that to "public health bad, science bad, researchers bad and must be erased" is true mind blowing.
RT if you will be able to look your kids and grandkids in the face and tell them you did everything you could to keep Americans free.
“They said explicitly they were not going after scientists,” said an NIH researcher...“[These] scientists work on membrane proteins...Why is this a target?" Same energy as the people who voted for the current administation b/c they were OK w/ other groups being targeted, just not themselves.
Not understanding how gutting worker safety oversight will make people healthier or address chronic illness.
This cannot be ignored.
Another thing to call your Reps about today. Keep the fight up, the pressure on. Join post card writing campaigns for special elections. Every little bit makes a difference. Hope is resistance.
Just went to a live panel discussion from experts on pandemic preparedness. The prediction is that we will have these more frequently. Great time to dismantle the CDC. Let’s not prevent nor respond to our modern realities. Great plan.
Several colleagues at the CDC are waking up this morning to emails notifying them they are no longer employed. A cruel purge that will cripple the agency and its mission of protecting public health. I stand with public health. www.wsbtv.com/news/local/l...
4) Adding a fourth: problems in our justice system are rampant. County run jails and courts have similar problems but there is a process to hold them accountable. Sadly, many do not have access to this. The work of the Innocence Project is a good reference point to better understand this.
3) she attributes this to privatizing prisons. That’s not the reason this is happening. We’ve had private prisons for decades and these illegal detentions are a means to a different end. They are about terrorizing an expanding group of people and normalizing unconstitutional practices.
“Not one of these women had a criminal record. These women acknowledged that they shouldn’t have overstayed and took responsibility for their actions. But their frustration wasn’t about being held accountable; it was about the endless, bureaucratic limbo they had been trapped in.” No due process.
Important to understand her experience but please note 3 points: 1) She was released after two weeks of being held without charges because of pressure from a free press. What happens when you are detained and there is no free press? Also: memorize phone #. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
People really, really need to pay more attention to these “mistakes.”
Please let him know you support his efforts (202) 224-3224 @booker.senate.gov
"It’s awfully hard to imagine such thoughtful, deliberate reforms coming from leaders who wave around chainsaws while discussing their designs on government, or who say their ultimate goal is turning career civil servants into 'villains.'"
So the question is: are we going to allow 31% of Americans remove our constitutional protections?
Attended this last night while visiting London. Grateful for the opportunity to hear from a very informed panel. 1 Message: There will be another pandemic. They are more likely to occur more frequently bc of global travel, climate change and agricultural practices that ⬆️ risk of zoonotic disease.
Each day is a new horror for America’s public health from this administration.
Idaho could be the first state in the nation to lose their school immunization requirements. Not only will that put Idahoans at risk, but as we see with the current measles outbreak, diseases don't recognize state boundaries.
It’s sad it came to this just as things were moving more positively for #ovariancancer, as well as other cancers. Contact your representative Via @ocra tinyurl.com/OCRA-voter-v... #womenshealth #cancer #MedSky #cancertreatment #survivorship #eugenics #clinicaltrials #science #DEI #CR #NIH
This is a good time to remember the famous and wise words of Audre Lorde, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
Current estimates are that 1 in every 110 individuals are actively infectious with Covid . Weekly, we have an est’d 3 million new Covid infections. This translates to ~100K-600K cases of long Covid. Thank you for the data @michael_hoerger! x.com/michael_hoer... #BlueSky #MedSky #SciSky #IDSky
Some updates #medSky #IDsky
Making mifepristone and misoprostol controlled substances not only limits access to these safe medications - it subjects patients to tracking via PDMPs and essentially skirts HIPAA protections. This can be used to criminalize patients AND prescribers. #medsky #pharmsky
What we heard this week 🧵 #Medsky "Vitamin A is absolutely not a substitute nor an equivalent for #MMR [measles, mumps, and rubella] vaccination." -- Ericka Hayes, MD, of @childrensphila.bsky.social, discussing #measles prevention. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Trump hugged the flag, then stabbed veterans in the back. Cutting 80,000 VA jobs won’t improve services-it’s a betrayal of those who served. Veterans kept their promise, why won’t he? Read more: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/betrayed-a...
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
“…grief, exhaustion, isolation, and a lack of mental health and social support services create cracks that people fall through. And when they do, the consequences can be catastrophic…the reality is this: the system is failing all of us. Healthcare is broken.”
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This is a valid question: where is the accountability and oversight of this presidentially appointed advisory committee?
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Welp. He can’t go back. People tasting regret need to own it and help the ones who told them to vote for Kamala in the first place.
Super annoying.
“Justice Amy Coney Barrett explained in dissent, the court “offers nothing to substantiate” its “puzzling” conclusion—nothing, that is, besides evident sympathy for polluters and callous apathy toward those who will suffer from its decision.”
