Notices by Bich Nguyen :verified: (bicmay@med-mastodon.com)

"The friend’s Guatemalan tenant, who didn’t know she was pregnant, had just delivered a premature baby in the New Orleans house. The parents lacked legal residency, and the mother refused to go to a hospital for fear of being detained by federal immigration officers."

https://veritenews.org/2025/12/16/immigrants-health-care-catahoula-crunch/

#healthcare #hospitals #clinics #medicaid #ReproHealth #PublicHealth #immigrant #immigration #ICE

"Access to subsidies for childcare and healthcare, which are more common in Europe, can impact an American woman's decision to move abroad.

'People don't realise how far behind the US is on maternal care, parental leave, and healthcare,' Alyssa says, 'until they leave the country.'"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgqz19ede19o

#healthcare #PaidLeave #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #WomensHealth #USpol

“'We estimate that over a seven-year follow-up period, the shingles vaccine averts one in five new dementia diagnoses,' says Dr. Pascal Geldsetzer, an assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University and senior author of the study.

The findings were replicated in a similar study in JAMA this year, looking at seniors in Australia when the government rolled out a similar shingles-vaccine program."

🎁🔗: https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/the-unexpected-ways-vaccines-could-boost-your-health-00eb3158?st=NYXDc3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

#research #science #vaccines #immunizations #dementia #cancer

"Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the 'biggest waves of censorship' on its platforms in years."

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/11/meta-shuts-down-global-accounts-linked-to-abortion-advice-and-queer-content

#PublicHealth #SocialMedia #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #pregnancy #abortion #lgbtq #queer #censorship #shadowban

"...if it’s OK to comply with a directive to remove information about gender, what if the next demand is that we don’t report about people who emigrated from other countries, or on people who are experiencing homelessness? What if there’s a directive to suppress data about a particular racial or ethnic group that’s unpopular? How far would we go?"

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/hiv-expert-john-weiser-refused-to-censor-data-quit-cdc-transgender-interview/

#PublicHealth #HIV #lgbtq #transgender #immigrants #CDC #USpol #autocracy #ethics

"Young and middle-age adults who had at least one dose of a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine were less likely to die of any cause in the following 4 years compared with those who weren't vaccinated, a nationwide French cohort study found."

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/118840

#PublicHealth #covid #vaccines #immunizations #vaccinations #mRNA #mortality

"Trump’s budget includes nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, which funds a wide swath of services to disabled children, including speech, occupational and physical therapy, wheelchairs, in-home aides and medical care. All children with physical, developmental or cognitive disabilities – in California, nearly 1 million – receive at least some services through Medicaid."

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-donald-trump-es-california-government-programs-schools-895342972a486c782d9243a1f8a31448

#healthcare #disabilities #medicaid #schools #education #PublicHealth #CivilRights #california

"The Trump administration indicated Tuesday that it will begin withholding SNAP benefits from recipients in most Democratic-led states starting next week after those states refused to provide the Agriculture Department with data including recipients’ names and immigration statuses."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-administration-threatens-withhold-snap-benefits-blue-states-immi-rcna247060

#PublicHealth #hunger #SNAP #food #FoodAid #FoodAssistance #IRS #HHS #ICE #immigrant #immigration #USpol

"The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles is implementing more stringent photo identification requirements for all vehicle registrations and renewals in an abrupt shift that could shut out undocumented residents from legally owning vehicles.

Current photo identification, such as a state driver’s license or passport, must be presented when new vehicle registrations or renewals are made, according to the new policy."

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/25/texas-dmv-id-restriction-registration-renewal-immigration/

#vehicle #DMV #license #registration #texas #immigrant

"As South Carolina tries to contain its measles outbreak, public health officials across the nation are concerned that the highly contagious virus is making a major comeback. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tallied more than 1,700 measles cases and 45 outbreaks in 2025. The largest started in Texas, where hundreds of people were infected and two children died."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/measles-outbreak-south-carolina-vaccine-misinformation-kennedy-rfk/

#PublicHealth #measles #vaccines #immunizations #misinformation #disinformation

"Cases of norovirus are rising across the United States, doubling over the last few months, according to updated data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Nearly 14% of tests came back positive for norovirus during the most recent week ending Nov. 15, compared to roughly 7% about three months ago."

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-cases-norovirus-rise-double-rate-positive-tests/story?id=127872876

#PublicHealth #norovirus #illness #IDmastodon #handwashing #FoodSafety #prevention

"The White House expects to soon unveil a health policy framework that includes a two-year extension of Obamacare subsidies due to expire at the end of next month and new limits on eligibility, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss the unannounced plans."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/23/white-house-to-propose-new-health-care-framework-00666701

#healthcare #ACA #obamacare #insurance #TaxCredits #HealthPolicy #USpol

"Two Black women said they were denied immediate medical attention despite being minutes away from giving birth.

The incidents, which happened days apart in different states, highlight long-standing disparities in health outcomes for Black women, health experts say."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-mothers-texas-indiana-say-hospital-staff-ignored-cries-care-labo-rcna245068

#healthcare #hospitals #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #pregnancy #obstetrics #WomensHealth #disparities #EMTALA #SocialMedia #texas #indiana #BlackMastodon

"The NIH has posted a dozen job openings for institute directors with very tight turnaround timelines and without convening search committees -- a departure from the past that's raising red flags among scientists."

https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/118567

#healthcare #biomedical #science #research #NIH #HHS #grants #funding

"An umbrella review of nine systematic reviews published today in BMJ shows no link between maternal acetaminophen (Tylenol) use during pregnancy and autism or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children."

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-health/tylenol-use-pregnancy-not-tied-autism-adhd-review-shows

#PublicHealth #acetaminophen #paracetamol #Tylenol #autism #ReproHealth #pregnancy #ChildrensHealth

Happy election day to all!

#voter #voting #CivicEngagement #CivilRights #elections #elections2025 #USpol

"Historians and advocates say that’s an example of what’s known as systemic racism. There may be no formally racist policy at play but America’s long history of racism — from slavery to unfair zoning rules — has left Black communities with a series of structural disadvantages, and far less wealth accumulated over generations."

https://apnews.com/article/shutdown-snap-benefits-food-assistance-stigma-race-4bf5074c920e601e80e931cb5a22a784

#PublicHealth #food #FoodInsecurity #FoodBanks #FoodPantries #nutrition #SNAP #poverty #disaprities #BlackMastodon

"When he completed his surgical training in 1973 at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Callender says he became the third Black transplant surgeon in the world. Over the next six decades, he dedicated his entire career to saving lives and to ensuring Black people had equal access to organ transplants."

https://wordinblack.com/2025/10/hes-a-legendary-transplant-surgeon-at-88-his-work-isnt-done/

#healthcare #OrganTransplant #OrganDonation #transplantation #physicians #surgeons #disparities #advocacy #BlackMastodon

"But the government shutdown has now put the WIC program at risk. Unlike Social Security, WIC isn’t an entitlement program, so it relies on Congress to appropriate money every year, but Congress wasn’t able to pass bills funding the government before the fiscal year lapsed on September 30. The program is currently very low on funds..."

https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2025/10/25/parents-worry-as-wic-funding-dwindles-during-the-government-shutdown/

#PublicHealth #food #FoodInsecurity #nutrition #WIC #SNAP #hunger #ChildrensHealth #disabilities #NorthCarolina #UScongress #USpol

Physician friends are sharing lists of medical influencers sharing facts and science who should be followed and uplifted. Who else should be included? Mastodon accounts preferred!

MEDICAL INFLUENCERS - on Threads or Instagram or BlueSky:
Dr Jen Gunter
Dr Karen Tang
Dr Megan Ranney
Dr Harpreet Tsui
Dr Uche Blackstock
Dr Jennifer Lincoln
@erictopol
@gorskon
@luckytran
#medicine #doctors #physicians #PublicHealth #ReproductiveHealth

Edit: Added suggestions from comments