Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD FRCSC (she/her)

Why the US is burning $10m worth of birth control | Moira Donegan With action after action, the Trump administration has made clear it does not value women’s health, their dignity, their aspirations

Why the US is burning $10m worth of birth control
By @moiradonegan.bsky.social

Me too.
I’m so excited that I get to visit LM Montgomery’s birthplace and former home this coming week 🥹

‘Violating Nature’s Health Laws’: How an eccentric early 20th century influencer set the stage for the COVID infodemic - Healthy Debate We can start to tackle the social underpinnings of the infodemic by understanding its historical influences.

Not a formal historical analysis, but I talk about this a bit here. I'm diving in much more on this history in the book I'm currently working on about women's health and wellness culture.
healthydebate.ca/2022/10/topi...

Autism is a spectrum.

Blue secreting cell sends off bubbles (extracellular vesicles) holding RNA and proteins that are absorbed into a second blue recipient cell.

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🦀SARS-CoV-2 triggers rapid metastatic cancer growth
🩸SARS-2 Mpro activates clotting factors VII & XII
💊Larazotide treats MIS-C. Trial planned for Long COVID.
🫧Exosomes as biomarker for Long COVID

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The community health workers protecting pregnant women from dangerous heat in Delhi In one of the world's hottest capital cities, a specialist team is working to help pregnant women survive the scorching temperatures.

The community health workers protecting pregnant women from dangerous heat in Delhi

“India is expected to be among the 1st countries where temps exceed safe limits for healthy people by 2050, even while resting in the shade, which could impact labour productivity, economic growth & quality of life”

The Daily Tism is one of my favourite satirical websites, especially since it confounds so many people 🤣

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I'll add a general reminder for the public about autism - most autistic people are victims of crime, not instigators of it. Most autistic people are victims of bullying and inappropriate comments, not people who do this to others.
Many of our very best Police, Judges etc are autistic.
Thank you.

Large Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or 49 other health conditions A new Danish study finds no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma, and autoimmune diseases. The findings reaffirm the safety o...

Yet another study (Danish) has found no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines & 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma & autoimmune diseases. In this study, they tracked 1 million kids over 21 years.

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Autoimmunity in Children Post-COVID: A Silent Risk New research reveals links between SARS-CoV-2 infections and autoimmune responses in children.

"The autoantibodies identified are linked to a range of autoimmune conditions, including type 1 diabetes, thyroid disorders, and connective tissue diseases. Notably, the presence of autoantibodies was observed regardless of the severity of the initial infection..."

The “Doctor” commented:
“He became convinced the peptides weren’t the cause of the severe reactions after plugging everything he knows about the incident into an artificial intelligence app, which he said gave him a 57-page report that “basically says that it is impossible it was the peptides.””
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OH HEY ITS THE EUGENICS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WE ALL TOLD YOU WAS COMING

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It’s still not too late to start wearing a mask again.

The political climate is making it increasingly hard to survive as a disabled person.

A well fitted mask like an N95 can help keep you and your community healthy.

It’s also a great way to show solidarity with vulnerable people.

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published

“Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention”

Gaza has reached IPC Phase 5, which is the worst level of food insecurity & is associated with high amounts of death & permanent disability. For people experiencing this level of malnutrition, even if it ended today, many of the consequences (eg personal outcomes like disabilities) are irreversible.

-Normalizing non-attendance at after-hours events and eliminating informal penalties for declining invitations.

-Collecting and analyzing data on meeting times, participation rates, and perceived inclusion to inform policy.

Recommendations:
-Limit nonessential meetings to core hours (eg. 9-4) recognizing that time outside this window is not equitably accessible
-Offer asynchronous or hybrid options for professional development & decision-making forums, reducing reliance on physical presence as a proxy for engagement

How early meetings and after-hours events penalize physician-mothers Structural scheduling norms in academic medicine disproportionately exclude women, especially physician-mothers, and must be redesigned for true professional equity.

How early meetings and after-hours events penalize physician-mothers*

*important to note that this should not just include mothers of young children: teens/young adults & disabled family members also require caregiving

Research-integrity sleuths say their work is being ‘twisted’ to undermine science Some sleuths fear that the business of cleaning up flawed studies is being weaponized against science itself.

Research-integrity sleuths say their work is being ‘twisted’ to undermine science

“I am very worried about how the work we do in pointing out bad papers is currently being misused, or even weaponized, to convince the general public that all science is bad” @elisabethbik.bsky.social

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

I was so moved by this episode and genuinely hope that this Jane Doe is finally identified using genetic genealogy

Maternal deaths rising in UK despite fewer births, official figures show Increase in number of women dying during pregnancy or soon after giving birth is ‘appalling’, say Lib Dems

Maternal deaths rising in UK despite fewer births, official figures show

“Women aged 35 or over are three times more likely to die than those aged 20-24 & Black women are at more than double the risk of white women of dying in pregnancy or soon after, MBRRACE-UK has found”

to all of you in the comments bringing up 1930s Germany, look first to American history. At the Ugly Laws, for instance, which allowed the state to criminalize unhoused people. Look at the histories of forcible incarceration in insane asylums, workhouses, epileptic colonies and more across the US

Yeah gotta say as someone with a congenital heart defect - it’s fine to not care that Trump has an illness, it’s not fine to conflate getting ill with immorality.

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

London Health Sciences Research Institute poster featuring a photo of Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, a 40-something year-old white woman with dark blonde hair and blue eyes, smiling with her mouth closed. In the background there are pictures of a placenta and a fetus in profile

Now that I know it’s out in the wild, I can show off my @lhscri poster!
Two fun facts:
1. The ultrasound picture in the background is actually my youngest son
2. The white lab coat is a loaner, since I haven’t worn one of those in over a decade!

Good riddance to bad science.

Israel is Starving Palestinians to Death - Email PM Carney & your MP with an appeal for them to take immediate action