Random Ramblings

Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It. Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.

As numerous women recounted losing dangerous amounts of blood during miscarriage, our reporters searched for a way to gain a broader understanding of how abortion restrictions have impacted care.

Here's how we conducted our analysis.

By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

America's Rural Hospitals Are in Crisis. That's Nothing New Rural hospital closures have major public health consequences, and the number shutting their doors continues to increase.

Cuts to Medicaid will increase the rate of uninsured dramatically. They will also accelerate the crisis of access to care in rural areas already facing a hospital crisis. “This year, nearly one-third of the remaining rural hospitals could shutter… And there is no sign that closures will slow down”

If you’ve ever considered it or think an IUD might be right for you, now would be a great time to make an appointment and have one placed.

I love vaccines. They are truly one of the best things humanity has ever done. I’m grateful to everyone who keeps fighting to promote and protect them 💉

It is one of my favorites! I just rewatched it! 💕

But also, I’m so glad you were there to deliver appropriate care!

I feel this

The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.

"A growing number of residents who trained in the state were leaving, Brown told me, and many established doctors were contemplating it, too. “We’re just not going to have enough people to take care of women in this state,”
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It is actually amazing we found any safe mushrooms to eat when it seems like so many are out there trying to kill us

Hospital staff “patient refused to answer” is the only appropriate option here

Here’s How We Know RFK Jr. Is Wrong About Vaccines Children used to die of diseases far more gruesome and deadly than we remember.

Gift article. "For most of human history, half of all children died before reaching age 15; that number is down to just 4 percent worldwide, and far lower in developed countries, with vaccines one of the major drivers of improved life expectancy." Medsky www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

For the first time, the elimination of a cancer is within our reach Cervical cancer can be avoided through vaccines, diagnostics, and treatment - but only if we can get them to the people who need it

If you're in the #cancerspace & trying to 'pick your battles' in light of a changing administration, please participate in the #VaccinesSaveLives battle too.

"We have the tools and the opportunity to eliminate cervical cancer."

#oncsky #oncosky #gyncsm
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Thank you for doing this! So nice to be in such good company!

Woohoo! Congratulations! It’s an amazing career!

Woohoo!!

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky

Submitted my grant. Submitted my manuscript. Officially in my do not bother me till 2025 era

The Antisemitism Post (tm) Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.

As the white Christian nationalist admin gears up, it may be useful to see how the antisemitic tropes used today began & took shape.

Especially since they usually, more than other oppressions, rely on a certain invisibility, unspeakability.

Getting clarity what you’re seeing can be illuminating.

Good day to remind everyone

Around the globe the measles vaccine has saved nearly 94 million lives over the past 50 years

www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

US preterm birth rate was 10.4% in 2023 w significant racial disparities, receiving a D+ from @marchofdimes.bsky.social for the 3rd straight yr.

Many challenges are secondary to maternal care deserts which will only worsen as ob/gyns leave states without reproductive freedom.

The word for this is "eugenics"

Opinion | How to Talk About Fluoride, Vaccines and Raw Milk How to build trust and make America healthy again.

In today's edition of Obeying in Advance, Emily Oster says that restoring trust in public health means respectfully equivocating with people who want to dismantle it.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/o...

I’m An OB-GYN. I Was Forced To Travel Out Of State To End My Wanted Pregnancy. "My world turned upside down at my 24-week anatomy scan when I saw my baby on the ultrasound monitor."

My friend’s account of later term abortion for a wanted pregnancy

www.huffpost.com/entry/obgyn-...

Yes please 🩺