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What Happens When Midwives Lead Abortion Care: Lessons from Sweden | International Confederation of Midwives In Sweden, abortion is recognised as essential healthcare—built on decades of research and early innovation. More recently, reforms have enabled midwives to play a central role, making care safer, tim...

Sweden’s experience with midwives providing abortion care offers lessons for other countries. Swedism midwives have long led care for healthy women during pregnancy and birth, with doctors supporting when complications arise. Applying the same model to abortion care is both logical and effective.

How to Film ICE Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

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Know your rights even though they seem to mean nothing anymore
Please stay safe everyone...

The Art of Healing: Reflections from Kintsugi Artist Naoko Fukumaru – Portland Japanese Garden Kintsugi artist and conservator Naoko Fukumaru shares her thoughts on Portland Japanese Garden and her artform.

Good morning. We woke up today thinking of the Japanese art of kitsugi, repairing broken pottery with gold, not to hide the flaws, but to turn them into something beautiful.

Our country has broken in many ways. Let’s be the gold that mends the cracks.

Read "'I Don’t Want to Die for This': Exploring Black Women Administrators’ Workplace Wellbeing" — ahead of print in The Review of Higher Education, and it's #S20 #OpenAccess

muse.jhu.edu/article/9772...

🍽️Where can you find evidence based nutrition information now that RFKJ has hijacked federal nutrition guidance? 🥦

🍗Check out the professional societies for dieticians and nutritionists:

🥭Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics www.eatright.org
🍐American Society for Nutrition nutrition.org

U.S. Axes Number of Recommended Childhood Vaccines in Blow to Public Health The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reducing the recommended number of vaccines for children to those that protect against 11 diseases instead of the protections against 17 illnesse...

“Fewer children will be vaccinated, and children will be harmed because of this decision,” says @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social about today's vaccine schedule change.

Evaluation of standardized emotional intelligence modules in prelicensure nursing curricula Literature underscores the significance of emotional intelligence (EI) in healthcare settings for enhancing communication, mitigating stress and anxie…

Evaluation of standardized emotional intelligence modules in prelicensure nursing curricula - Vickie Hughes, Rita D'Aoust, Sandra Swoboda et al., including Cynda Rushton | Teaching and Learning in Nursing www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The US is not Denmark. Denmark is not the US. The Danish immunization schedule is not adapted for the realities of the American Healthcare system and population.
Let me explain.
This is a long thread so buckle up 🧵

📖We are often asked where you can find reliable vaccine information. It breaks our hearts to say it, but it’s no longer at CDC

The vaccine integrity project is a great source & has compiled recommendations from medical societies into 1 place for easier reference:

www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...

Interactive AIDS Quilt The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...

Sometimes the internet is amazing!
Did you explore any or all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt?
All pieces are available in an interactive application. Creators hope “people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”

👋Help! Last Call! 🔔
Public comments period closes today Nov 24, 2025 for RFK Jr’s next ACIP meeting.
There are 732 comments as of this post. Can you help us get to at least 800 comments?

🗣️Speak up and get loud. 📣 Add your comment NOW!

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Why All Vaccines Should Be Free | The Tyee COVID-19 normalized vaccination for adults, and we should go further to protect people from shingles and RSV.

I cannot agree more! The cost of making all vaccines free will be completely offset by lives saved and all the morbidity & hospical costs averted

Why All Vaccines Should Be Free

@crof.bsky.social

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A clear vision for university-community partnerships Mutual respect, actively listening to each other’s perspectives and clear mechanisms to evidence impact should be the foundation of a university-community collaboration. Here’s how a project to improv...

Mutual respect, active listening and clear ways to show impact are the foundations of strong university–community collaborations. Here’s how a children’s eye health project grew into a lasting partnership: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/clear... #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky

Respiratory virus season has arrived. What to know about getting this year’s vaccines | CNN It’s that time of year when the leaves are turning golden, there’s a chill in the air and the threat of respiratory viruses like Covid-19, influenza or RSV looms across the country.

“Vaccines are not just for disease prevention, but it’s also to prevent you from getting a severe form of the disease (if you get infected) that sends you to the hospital or worse. Flu every year and Covid every year still cause significant mortality in the country.”
www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/h...

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance * Guam is also a member of the alliance Updated October 15, 2025 Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

US governors launch alliance to bolster coordination on public health A coalition of 15 U.S. governors representing more than a third of the country's population has launched a new bipartisan alliance on Wednesday, aimed at improving public health coordination and emergency preparedness.

A coalition of 15 U.S. state governors representing more than a third of the country's population has launched a new bipartisan alliance on Wednesday, aimed at improving public health coordination, emergency preparedness and best practices.
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Study Author on Acetaminophen Use in Pregnancy This Medical News article is an interview with epidemiologist Brian Lee, PhD, about his study on acetaminophen use during pregnancy and children’s risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders...

A large, rigorous study published in JAMA last year found no association between autism and #acetaminophen use in pregnancy after accounting for heritability.

Read this new interview with the study’s senior author about the findings. #paracetamol

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Correlation vs causation. Think ice cream sales and crime. Both increase during summer but buying ice cream does not make you commit crime. Re: Tylenol - A 2024 Swedish study of siblings compared outcomes of siblings who were either exposed or not exposed to Tylenol. No causal link was found.

RFK THE LESSER’S FINANCE HEARING Gold-standard science “My kids are fully vaccinated” Autism “Mitochondrial issues” Transparency “Vaccine-skeptic” Conflicts-of-Interest Measles Clean up “Deeply embedded malaise” Politicized science “Trusting the experts is not science” Fire RFK Tylenol Vitamin A “Cesspool of Corruption” RFK mentions his uncle “Hiding the data” RFK claims he never said what he said on camera Vaccine injury CDC shooting Dr. Monarez RFK claims he is unaware of cuts he made “I am not a doctor” Anti-depressants

It’s a new day on the skies! 🌄

In an hour we will be live posting reactions to RFK’s hearing before the Senate Finance Committee.

Which of the 2 GOP docs present will debase themselves first?

Will Kennedy cite Dianetics as a mental health study?

Find out first with us!

Today BINGO card:

Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer:

-Australia by 2028
-Sweden by 2027
-Rwanda by 2030
-UK by 2040
-Indonesia by 2030
-Bhutan 2030
-El Salvador by 2030
-Canada by 2040

How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban.

You will note USA is not on this list.

PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SECRETARY GINA DEBLASSIE AUGUST 29, 2025 Ensuring Availability of COVID-19 Vaccine for the 2025-2026 Season

THIS ORDER supersedes any previous order, proclamation, or directives to the extent they are in conflict. This Public Order shall take effect immediately and remain in effect until such time as it automatically expires one year from the date of issuance, or until such time as the New Mexico Department of Health Cabinet Secretary rescinds it.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

Event: Addressing Disparities in Pediatric Eye Care: Employing an Ethics Framework in a National Call to Action - Sept 11, 8a - 12:30p. Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Open to all, link for info and free registration. | Robert H Levi Leadership Symposium mailchi.mp/jhu/registra...

Accelerating research to end tuberculosis in pregnant and lactating women: a call to action This call to action accompanies the consensus statement on the optimal and early inclusion of pregnant and lactating women in tuberculosis research and specifies the actions that need to be taken to e...

The @who.int issues a call to action:

Prioritize pregnant and lactating women in TB research

www.who.int/publications...

American Academy of Pediatrics has released our annual update to our immunization recommendations to best help children and adolescents build immunity and stay healthy.
Read our full policy statement to learn about AAP's updated immunization schedule.
www.aap.org/en/news-room...

Read the BANNED BOOKS first....

They’ve tried to erase us for centuries. Didn’t work then, won’t work now. Black history IS American history.