The impact of parity on uterine rupture in patients with and without a previous cesarean delivery: a retrospective analysis of risk variation in women with and without a previous cesarean delivery
04.12.2025 05:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@placentadoc.bsky.social
Associate Professor of OBGYN. MFM Clinician-Researcher (placenta & cardiometabolic health) at Western University, London (the one in Ontario) “Overburdened with mitochondrial challenges” Placentavangelist. Opinions are my own.
The impact of parity on uterine rupture in patients with and without a previous cesarean delivery: a retrospective analysis of risk variation in women with and without a previous cesarean delivery
04.12.2025 05:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Vaccinating newborns against hepatitis B saves lives. Why might a CDC panel stop recommending it?
04.12.2025 05:16 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1Ontario forced to slow new medical school plans after ignoring warnings: AG
“a lack of planning in the Ford government’s expansion of Ontario’s medical schools meant the province has created family medicine spaces more slowly than it had planned, the auditor general has found”
New evidence questions the benefit of calcium supplements in pregnancy for preventing pre-eclampsia
04.12.2025 03:20 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Nurse: can you please tell that previa to try not to bleed overnight?
Me: gentle parenting does not work for the placenta.
"[N]umber of sex workers using the Kingsway drop-in space [has doubled], which is likely due to the overall reduction in services for sex workers in Vancouver."
"For the funding to be at risk in this moment in time feels particularly dangerous to me."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #SexWork #Nonprofit
Unfortunately, rates of iGAS have actually increased rather than decreased in the last several years.
24.11.2025 17:43 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Gourd Time is coming close to an end. Embrace these final days, fuckheads.
24.11.2025 03:00 — 👍 147 🔁 16 💬 5 📌 2There needs to be a drastic cultural shift in the construction industry in order to prevent further deaths from opioid poisoning. Most people’s perception of an “opioid addict” isn’t a gainfully employed young man in the prime of his life, but these are the people over-represented in the death stats
24.11.2025 02:39 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Widower breaks down at Brampton, Ont., city hall amid cries for hospital reform
“He launched an online petition demanding sepsis screening and early prevention reform, which has amassed more than 15,000 signatures”
Claire Danes talks about her unplanned pregnancy at 44
"I was so old when that happened. I was 44," Danes said, and admitted she "didn't think it was possible" for her to still get pregnant at that age.”
First in Canada program lets mothers undergo addiction treatment without leaving children
More of this, please!!!
Preconception and first-trimester metformin on pregnancy outcomes in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis
“Continuing metformin treatment throughout the 1st trimester…may reduce the risk of miscarriage & increase live birth rates in women with PCOS”
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Acolytes of this “death cult” are manipulating vulnerable women. Several of these “traditional birth attendants” spoke at the recent Reclaiming Birth conference held in London ON
There is no such thing as an intelligent report on increasing school absences due to chronic illness and mental health issues that does not lead with a discussion of the out-of-control virus that causes chronic illness and mental health issues.
@cbcnews.ca has seriously weird biases about COVID. 🙄
Just enrolled 2 patients in 2 weeks for a study which closes recruitment at the end of December, after only recruiting 1 patient since enrolment began. The research nurse & I cheered, then sent our apologies to our regional PI for being such last-minute chaos goblins 😬
20.11.2025 19:22 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Canada was on track to eliminate cervical cancer. Now doctors are alarmed by what they are seeing - Toronto Star
18.11.2025 12:12 — 👍 16 🔁 9 💬 5 📌 1Did you know Makary is using 45 year old, 34 year old, and 29 year old observational studies to spread disinformation about MHT? Ignoring newer, far better quality data is misogyny open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
14.11.2025 18:25 — 👍 340 🔁 118 💬 10 📌 5The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. n.pr/47WGe0m
16.11.2025 04:41 — 👍 1208 🔁 286 💬 26 📌 24Obit from @thesicktimes.org by Alice’s friend @mileswgriffis.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
16.11.2025 06:01 — 👍 176 🔁 51 💬 1 📌 0“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:
15.11.2025 10:36 — 👍 618 🔁 244 💬 3 📌 14If you have or have had Tri-Council funding you, too, may be concerned about this Parliamentary Committee request for confidential data.
Also, these clowns asked for 5 years of data on applications from everyone from MA students to Canada Research Chairs in... an excel spreadsheet. 15 days notice.
Last week an indigenous student at my local high school was suspended for an Insta post strongly criticizing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Read & sign if you think the school has no business policing students’ political views (or language on social media…)
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"The risk of long COVID was 36% lower in adolescents vaccinated within 6 months before their first infection than in their unvaccinated peers..." www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...
12.11.2025 03:53 — 👍 27 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 1I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao
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Answering your questions about the Ostrich story your uncle won’t stop posting about
The depressing part: this isn’t satire. It is simply a fact-based Q&A.
As young women turn to social media for birth control advice, doctors try to counter misinformation
11.11.2025 18:29 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Photo of chart demonstrating that the risks to inflammatory conditions, low platelets and blood clots are all higher in kids who had COVID19.
A study with data from ~14 million children shows that COVID19 infection is significantly more harmful to kids’ hearts than the vaccine.
Marty Makary falsely alleged that “children died” because from COVID19 vaccine. Whomever told him that failed to account for SARS-CoV-2 infections.
Link below.