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House bill would make telehealth changes permanent For patients in rural South Dakota, telehealth saves two-plus hours of travel on average. Companion Senate measure already has 63 co-sponsors.

As a reminder, please contact your reps to get telemed permanently covered (current exp 9/30!!). It's a critical way to access care for homebound, far from specialists, or unable to arrange caregiving/time off to get the healthcare they need! #medsky #endosky www.ama-assn.org/practice-man...

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Amazing and hilarious summary of the actual evidence (no,
seriously, studies are real, I've read most of them, including reasons for detransition). Pls share widely to both amuse and educate (mildly #nsfw due to language)! #endosky #medsky #transcareishealthcare

Great plenary by Fatima Stanford at #endo2025 : success in weight management of clinical obesity should be based on s/sx remission rather than measures of weight loss. @endocrinesociety.bsky.social

ALSO Nancy Cox @endocrinesociety.bsky.social during plenary at #endo2025

(Truncated) We have more sig + reproducible associations to common dz than ever imagined but never would have believed we would have so much discovery with so little understanding the driving biology

#truth #endosky #medsky

Nancy Cox @endocrinesociety.bsky.social during plenary at #endo2025
Early (genetics) diagnosis is transformative - short circuiting diagnostic odyssey is so important, potential therapeutics #endosky #medsky

Inspiring plenary by Mark Caulfield at #endo2025 @endocrinesociety.bsky.social on how successes of 100k genome project-> Generation Study already saving 35 babies with rare dz dx! Reminder to contact your US reps re: funding (and reversing defunding!) of research saves lives! #endosky #medsky

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

House passes tax bill that would ban Medicaid from covering transition-related care The bill would also prohibit marketplace plans available under the Affordable Care Act from covering transgender care as an essential health benefit.

We had a hint this would happen from the proposed rule a month ago. Please call your senators to fight back. Not having Medicaid and medicare covering GAC in *adults* would devastate patients most at risk #medsky #endosky

www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

Opinion | Test Scores Never Defined My Competence as an Effective Clinician Accreditation must remain independent to protect equity in medicine

Beautifully written on why DEI matters in medicine (I am personally a good test-taker, one who is so aware of how much I benefited from learning from diverse colleagues in #medsky, beyond the textbooks!)

www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Act Now to Protect Our Healthcare | A4TE The Trump administration is trying to deprive trans people of the healthcare that we need. Tell this administration to get their hands off our healthcare!

Some tips on how to comment from @transequality.bsky.social : transequality.org/news/act-now...

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability This proposed rule would revise standards relating to past-due premium payments; exclude Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients from the definition of "lawfully present"; the evidentiary st...

#medsky and everyone, pls comment on proposed policy change for #ACA, that reads in part:

"prohibit issuers of coverage subject to EHB requirements from providing coverage for sex-trait modification as an EHB."

targeting our #trans and #intersex patients

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana Transgender Reps Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell delivered powerful speeches on the Montana House floor on Thursday. Republicans defected en masse to join them in voting against anti-trans bills.

1. Today, powerful speeches from trans representatives in Montana SJ Howell and Zooey Zephyr flipped 29 Republicans, killing anti-trans bills.

While some Dems like Newsom abandon trans people, these reps show the power of representation.

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Sadly that seems to be true :( no thought, just cruelty

Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article) Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

(if ok) ((virtual hug))

Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.

This is the cruelest and most deadly decision of the administration so far. I don't know how people who supported these decisions and the people who made them can sleep at night.

Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

I do think healthcare is slow, and since this just started, they probably didn't come up with a plan and won't until they get more calls this week/month as people finish refills from last year. I really hope you don't have to ration! Worst case scenario, write to state insurance commissioner?

What’s the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan?

So sorry to hear, might be worth trying to call your specific insurance provider and ask for a manager? It sounds like it's required option for all services. Good luck!
www.medicare.gov/prescription...

Got me tearing up first thing in the morning.

As Endo, no one even wants to read the tag line from my book, they just refer to its title...

This is awful. I do want to check --are you doing the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan to spread the $2k cap over 12 months since it sounds like you are definitely going to hit cap this year?

remember we *shouldn't* have a RCT vs placebo because it would be unethical to let unsupported kids suffer... There *are* sadly several pragmatic trials running due to limited access to care even before this EO. This EO means we will NEVER get evidence as it defunded the science

Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Policy and

Tonight's EO against youth GAHT is so much worse than we had feared. I go to USPATH and WPATH meetings, engage with the science and the symposia, and read the literature. GAHT is good science and medicine. This EO is going to hurt, even kill, kids #medsky #endosky
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Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

Ooh that acute pancreatitis risk reduction is impressive!

Reminder to not get distracted by theatre and keep doing the good things! Today's task: comment on proposed CMS change to get insulin down to $35/month or cheaper starting each new year (without deductible!!) and full GLP1a coverage for obesity #medsky #endosky

www.regulations.gov/document/CMS...

Opinion | How Doctors and Nurses Can Protect Undocumented Immigrants (Gift Article) Doctors have a responsibility to reassure their patients, regardless of immigration status, that they are welcome and protected.

Remember fellow #medsky to not be an unwilling accomplice! Gift article courtesy of another physician www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...

Fracture Prevention with Infrequent Zoledronate in Women 50 to 60 Years of Age | NEJM Zoledronate prevents fractures in older women when administered every 12 to 18 months, but its effects on bone density and bone turnover persist beyond 5 years. Whether infrequent zoledronate admin...

Yet ammo in my fight to rehabilitate the undeserved bad reputation of bisphosphonates! zoledronic acid 5 mg q5 years decreased risk of fractures and reduced bone density loss in essentially normal BMD 50-60 yo women! #endosky
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

As of 12/18/2024, the House passed a short term bill to keep COVID-era #telemed expansions (which covers video visits with all your doctors etc) until 3/31/2025 (initially set to expire 12/31/2024!!!), please keep talking to your reps as we still need action to keep it after March! #medsky #endosky