Sarah Bernstein, MD

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

AARP Urges Outreach to Congress to Protect Social Security Older Americans continue to raise concerns about payments, customer service

AARP has created an easy way to contact your lawmakers and tell them Social Security must be protected. Learn more.👇

'Omg, did Pubmed go dark?' Blackout stokes fears about database’s future A brief outage has focused attention on scientists’ reliance on the US-government-funded website.

🧪 PubMed’s brief outage sent researchers into panic, underscoring global reliance on the free biomedical database. While restored, the incident raises concerns about access, resilience, and the need for backups. 🩺💻

James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

Joining 400 pediatricians at #AAPAdvocacy to advocate for Congress to reject funding cuts to Medicaid/CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program)

In IL, Medicaid covers 35% of children, 40% of births, and 43% of children with special needs

#KeepKidsCovered
@quigley.house.gov @duckworth.senate.gov

Know Your Rights | Protesters’ Rights | ACLU The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. However, police and other government officials are allowed to place certain narrow restrictions on the exerc...

We knew this would happen. Keep doing it anyway: www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

Representation matters. This meant the world to people. It’s just as important as putting up a menorah or a Christmas tree

#RamadanMubarak

Tuxedo cat laying down on a puzzle

He’s so helpful.

🦟 Did you know the CDC was originally created in 1946 to help eradicate malaria in the U.S.?
A quick 🧵 on how they accomplished this mission & eliminated malaria by 1951

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

What to know about vitamin A and the measles In the CDC’s first public statement on the measles outbreak, it suggested vitamin A as a type of supportive care.

Why aren’t we talking about the true preventive treatment which is vaccination 🤦‍♀️

PubMed is essential for scientists and doctors to access the latest medical research.

With PubMed down, we can’t search for the latest research and newest treatments for diabetes, cancer, infectious diseases, and more.

This directly impacts patient care—everyone should be concerned.

All About the Recommended Immunization Schedules The American Academy of Pediatrics, in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, released the latest immunization schedule for children and adolescents, outlining all the...

Great, evidence-based resource for parents/community re: vaccine schedule, catch up doses, immune response etc. 👇🏽 www.healthychildren.org/English/safe...

✅Measles was declared eliminated in U.S. in 2000 due to the measles vaccine.

📍Today, Mexico has issued a warning to avoid traveling to the U.S. because of measles outbreaks in Texas and 7 other U.S. states.

Opinion | Will They Come for PubMed Next? Here's what we lose if the administration takes away this invaluable resource

PubMed has been down for at least 11 hours and we are EXTREMELY concerned. We hope it’s mere incompetence and not an official action. If any of our followers have media events today, please mention it.

Missouri bill would offer $1,000 to help turn in undocumented immigrants | CNN Opponents say the proposed bill is already spreading fear and changing the lives of immigrants with and without permission to be in the US but its sponsor said the intent was ensuring safety.

A bill before the Missouri state Senate would introduce $1,000 rewards for people identifying undocumented immigrants who are then taken into custody. Opponents say it’s already spreading fear and changing the lives of both legally residing and undocumented immigrants: cnn.it/3QEaswU

Bracketed by a torn flag and the cracked Liberty bell, the following warning to the creators of, to the standard bearers of, America's intellectual rigor: NOW NOW is the time for ALL American SCIENCE, medical, EDUCATIONAL, environmental, HUMAN RIGHTS, arts, LEGAL and JOURNALISTIC entities, big & small, to SHIFT AS MUCH OF YOUR DATA OVERSEAS & air-gap it! In Jan '25, NO President will be inducted, the US will be ANOINTING it's first King - a venal, anti-intelligence ludite as King.

I posted the following repeatedly following Nov 7th, 2024.

I didn't do it to show what a 'clever boy' I was, nor someone who recognised the patterns of history but, principally, because

I could see the bleeding obvious.
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Opinion | Will They Come for PubMed Next? Here's what we lose if the administration takes away this invaluable resource

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

PubMed PubMed® comprises more than 37 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central a...

Please give it a go advance mode . Here the 🔗 and it’s still working in safari & google chrome 🇬🇧

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Back up for me!! 😅🥳

It’s still not working for me. Really hoping this is just a prolonged, very scary glitch… hopefully others will continue posting status updates.

Wheels up! 🛫 Headed to DC with #AAP and 400+ of my closest friends to advocate for kids ❤️

Who else is going?
@deannamarie208.bsky.social @annieandrewsmd.bsky.social @drdrmaya.bsky.social @neodrswenson.bsky.social @sheilarazdan.bsky.social @stephenwpatrick.bsky.social ?

Damn. If only there were a way to prevent measles AND rubella at the same time

Hot take: Social security is good actually

Texas school confirms case of rubella as measles outbreak in state reaches 146 The outbreak led to the death of an unvaccinated school-aged child this week.

Texas school confirms case of rubella as measles outbreak in state reaches 146 cbsaustin.com/news/nation-...

CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles.

The measles had turned into measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do. That was in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do.