I’m in active treatment still, and I sometimes feel like I spend so much time managing side effects.

Opinion | RFK Jr.‘s ignorance about autism is bad enough. Republicans’ Medicaid cuts are worse. Proposed reductions will have terrible consequences for autistic people and their families.

The secretary of health and human services finished Autism Awareness Month as he began it: spreading conspiracy theories, misinformation and lies about autism, vaccines, basic medical theories and more. Maybe that's enough awareness for now. Let's talk Medicaid. From @msnbc.com

The next time you hear RFK Jr talk about how he wants to “make America healthy” and end the chronic illness epidemic … remember that he just chose to cut the entire NIOSH department.

A group of people whose sole purpose is to help prevent sickness, death and disability.

Disability, Eugenics, and the Value of Human Life The eugenicists Your worth is not tied to what you can do. Your worth is not tied to your health. Your worth is not tied to all the things you can do...

if you're in the mood to read a strong affirmation about the worth of disabled lives in the face of a eugenicist administration.... so was i, so i wrote one: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Yikes.

Sounds just like what they said about SARS 2.

My son is autistic, has Down syndrome, and qualifies for SSI. Our financial planning in the wake of my wife's own disability and unemployment counted on those funds as he turned 18. I do not think we will get them for years. (We will be ok, but less so!).

IIRC from my time adjacent to these circles, they think saturated fats are better than unsaturated. And something about omega 3/6/9 ratios.

Medicaid and Medicare are not the same things and I’m begging you to learn the difference and use the right one.

You don’t need to have photos of people doing the seig heil and you don’t need to show Musk’s face when you write about the coup. My feed is often suffused with both and they start to overwhelm the words of opposition accompanying them.

Most people have never heard of cholangiocarcinoma, yet it’s the 2nd most common liver cancer. Awareness isn’t just important—it’s life-changing. Knowledge leads to early detection, research, and hope. Let’s make CCA known. #WorldCCADay 🌍

"We need to see people resisting more" is at odds with keeping resistance fighters safe from the government identification who are looking for excuses to escalate.

To a point, you have to believe A LOT of Americans are Doing The Work without insisting on endangering themselves to satisfy you.

More like hourly.

New initiatives are restoring farmlands to peatlands while creating markets for the native grasses, reeds and sedges they support. ow.ly/nkKK50UWHc8

That’s a truly superb owl.

Here’s a great guide on how to photograph owls carefully and in a way that doesn’t stress or harm them. Our human fascination with owls can unfortunately make us a danger to them.

#EthicalPhotography #birds #SuperbOwl

I got a plan to start a radiation with enhancer trial. I guess that’s a present?

Or…you could not disparage people based on perceived intelligence. Idiot, moron, and the like are basically older forms of the r slur.

This was the plot of a novel: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim. Really horrifying.

Reminder: #RFKJr is not a medically trained professional. His opinions about how to treat depression, ADHD, substance use disorder, prevent infections in children, manage miscarriage/abortion or any other health issue should be roundly dismissed. He does not know what he is talking about.

I think I'm going to have to log off of the internet for a bit before the news cycle breaks my brain entirely. Hundreds of millennia of human evolution have not provided us the cognitive tools required to process this level of administrative chaos.

This image is a screenshot from the subscribe page of the recalls newsletter, sign up form from Health Canada

Given that there’s a pause on FDA comms right now, it may be useful for Americans to sign up for Canadian recalls, since many products are sold in both countries. Eg fellow celiacs, this may clue you into products to watch out for on the US side too: recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/subscribe

Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

It helps avoid cold induced asthma too.

Mapping the effectiveness and risks of GLP-1 receptor agonists Nature Medicine - An atlas of the associations between the use of GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) and 175 health outcomes reports the effectiveness and risks of GLP-1RAs compared with other...

📄 Free access to the full study: rdcu.be/d6VYU

New from my team: In a study of over 2 million people, we comprehensively mapped the benefits and risks of GLP-1 (e.g. Ozempic and similar weight loss drugs) across 175 health conditions.

Please share and download before it goes back behind paywall.

What if there’s a public health emergency? Or a drug recall? We won’t hear from agencies we pay for, which Congress created to protect the public, because the Trump White House needs time to conduct a political purge.

Everyone excusing Elon Musk’s behavior due to his alleged autism should be chased into the sea with pitchforks

it’s both profoundly insulting to autistic people and also obviously not true

Gerson duckbills are very breathable also.

What varieties do you like? I think I need to grow beets this year.

America is in the middle of an egg shortage

1. Two very important points in this article. First, regardless of whether H5N1 mutates to allow for efficient human - human transmission, the extremely high prevalence of the virus in poultry and dairy cattle is having significant economic impact.

www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...