Notices by Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified: (bicmay@med-mastodon.com)

"More than 75,000 adults and children are now estimated to have died because of the effective shutdown of PEPFAR that began less than six months ago. Another adult life is being lost every three minutes; a child dies every 31 minutes. Ending PEPFAR could result in as many as 11 million additional new HIV infections and nearly 3 million additional AIDS-related deaths by the end of the decade."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/pepfar-evangelical/683418/

#PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #PEPFAR #HIV #USAID #evangelicals #ForeignAid

"Japan is the only country in the world that legally requires married couples to share the same family name — and that creates considerable problems for scientists, according to a survey of more than 7,500 researchers in the country.

The survey found that the naming law created confusion for researchers when obtaining patents, academic qualifications and applying for research grants..."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02081-0

#science #research #academia #grants #funding #travel #families #names

“Employer-sponsored coverage remains the bedrock of how people get health insurance in the United States,” Rae said. “I would say that getting a job is not a guarantee you’re going to have health insurance. It just increases your chances of getting it.”

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/fact-check-thune-health-insurance-workplace-job-employers/

#healthcare #insurance #ACA #HealthPolicy #medicaid #work #labor #benefits

"A leading contender is a new group led by Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert and the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota.

Osterholm is launching the Vaccine Integrity Project at CIDRAP as a potential alternative to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices."

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/groups-organize-form-unbiased-independent-vaccine-panel-rcna212468

#PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #vaccinations #ACIP #CDC #HHS

"'A supercharged HIV vaccine could offer strong protection with just one injection, a study in mice has indicated...And, the researchers said, the same approach could be used to create one-shot-only vaccines against other diseases, including COVID-19 and influenza."

https://www.newsweek.com/hiv-vaccine-supercharged-dual-adjuvant-immune-2088030

Journal article cited, behind paywall: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adw7499

#PublicHealth #vaccines #vaccinations #immunizations #HIV #biomedical #research #immunology

"The purpose of Juneteenth was always a celebration of emancipation, of the Black community’s emergence out of our gloomy past. But it was also an implicit warning that what had been done could be done again. Now millions of schoolchildren will enjoy a holiday commemorating parts of our history that the federal government believes might be illegal to teach them about."

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/06/the-hollowness-of-this-juneteenth/683232/

#juneteenth #BlackMastodon #UShistory #diversity #equity #inclusion #DEI #CivilRights #PublicHealth

"President Donald Trump’s administration this week provided deportation officials with personal data -- including the immigration status -- on millions of Medicaid enrollees, a move that could make it easier to locate people as part of his sweeping immigration crackdown."

https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-deportation-immigrants-trump-4e0f979e4290a4d10a067da0acca8e22

#healthcare #medicaid #DataPrivacy #HHS #CMS #DHS #immigrant #immigration #deportation #ICE #california #illinois #washington #washingtonDC

"But this ecological controversy is an example of how the demand for the metals needed to power battery technology - for electric cars and other low carbon energy sources - can damage the environment.

Indonesia now accounts for more than half of the world's nickel mine production...And while the beauty and biodiversity of the Raja Ampat has drawn attention to mining activity there, mining has been linked to ecological damage elsewhere too."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k36v50zvro

#PublicHealth #environment

"Tuesday’s scheduled all-hands meeting at the CDC would have been the first during the new Trump administration. Instead, after it was canceled at the last minute, dozens of current and former employees at the country’s leading public health agency rallied outside CDC headquarters in Atlanta to protest what they described as a wave of unlawful firings, the dismantling of lifesaving programs and the censorship of science."

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-workers-call-kennedy-resignation-protest-rcna212104

#PublicHealth #CDC #HHS #ACIP #protests #USpol

"The history of American popular music shows that the degree of agency an unsigned artist has to negotiate terms with industry representation can be profoundly affected by their class, race, and gender. Very few artists will ever reach the level of popularity and profitability that Swift enjoys, but by raising public discourse about music copyright she has helped to reinvigorate conversations about the value of music."

https://time.com/7290761/music-copyright-taylors-version/

#entertainment #music #copyright #USlaw

"A Texas hospital that repeatedly sent a woman who was bleeding and in pain home without ending her nonviable, life-threatening pregnancy violated the law, according to a newly released federal investigation...[she] ultimately lost part of her reproductive system after being discharged without any help from her hometown emergency room for her dangerous ectopic pregnancy."

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-texas-hospital-doomed-pregnancy-discharge-308ea695a17f72500cbf31622fdb521a

#healthcare #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #ectopic #hospitals #EMTALA #CMS

"That same day, the Trump administration paused implementation of a rule that would help protect coal miners from an aggressive form of black lung disease. Enforcement of the new protections is officially halted until at least mid-August, according to a federal announcement that came a few days after a federal court agreed to put enforcement on hold to hear an industry challenge."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/black-lung-coal-miners-silica-dust-federal-rule-rollback-enforcement-trump-staff-cuts-niosh-msha/

#PublicHealth #NIOSH #coal #mining #labor #OccHealth #OccSafety

"Privacy and hunger relief groups and a handful of people receiving food assistance benefits are suing the federal government over the Trump administration’s attempts to collect the personal information of millions of U.S. residents who use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program."

https://apnews.com/article/doge-data-collection-lawsuit-trump-food-stamps-100f6be4c03a6f2b726684e1768fb5b4

#PublicHealth #food #FoodInsecurity #hunger #SNAP #data #privacy #InfoSec

"A San Francisco boy with a rare bone marrow disease has been on the waitlist for more than a year.

One of his biggest challenges is finding a donor that matches his specific ethnicity: Chinese and Vietnamese.

NBC Bay Area's Gia Vang has more on this emerging problem. Watch her report in the video above."

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/rare-bone-marrow-disease-donor/3873134/

#healthcare #aapi #aanhpi #BoneMarrow #OrganDonation #OrganDonor #video #diversity #equity #inclusion #HealthEquity

"One hundred and twenty-seven years after Wong Kim Ark’s landmark Supreme Court victory enshrined birthright citizenship, Norman Wong arrived at the University of California at Berkeley in late April on a quest to protect his great-grandfather’s legacy."

🎁: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/13/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-wong-kim-ark/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQ3NzEzNjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQ5MDk1OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDc3MTM2MDAsImp0aSI6IjkzMTJjYjMyLWIxZTUtNDc4OS05Njk5LTkwOGQwN2VjMTExOCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9pbW1pZ3JhdGlvbi8yMDI1LzA1LzEzL3N1cHJlbWUtY291cnQtYmlydGhyaWdodC1jaXRpemVuc2hpcC13b25nLWtpbS1hcmsvIn0.dK5twIzkNKWYEbPFOJk2Zif7WuUnYYWoqOuSFpQVtvw

#aapi #aanhpi #citizenship #immigrant #immigration #SCOTUS #courts #USpol

“Those of us who served in the military couldn’t accept a cup of coffee and a doughnut at a contractor site because of the appearance of impropriety,” retired Air Force Colonel Moe Davis, who also worked as a military prosecutor at Guantánamo Bay, wrote on X. “Now Trump is taking a 747 airplane from the government of Qatar for his personal use … grift and corruption run amuck.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/trump-qatar-plane-reaction/682811/

#corruption #grift #gifts #ethics #emoluments #qatar #planes #hotels #crypto #USpol

"The head of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and a handful of teams at the agency had their layoff notices rescinded Tuesday, multiple officials say, and several worker safety programs that had been eliminated by layoffs last month are being restored."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-howard-niosh-restored-ahead-of-rfk-jr-hearing/

#PublicHealth #OccHealth #OccSafety #NIOSH #HHS #CDC

"The winner of NPR’s 2025 Tiny Desk Contest is the Bay Area’s own Ruby Ibarra.

A research scientist and fiercely poetic lyricist raised in San Lorenzo, Ibarra raps in English alongside the Filipino languages of Tagalog and Bisaya. Her Tiny Desk Contest-winning track, 'Bakunawa,' was inspired by the dragon-like serpent of Philippine mythology."

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13976039/ruby-ibarra-npr-tiny-desk-contest-winner-bay-area

#music #entertainment #art #TinyDesk #concert #aapi #aanhpi #filipino #filipina

"The bill as approved by the Senate contains many provisions that legal experts say might spark a lawsuit challenging it on constitutional grounds. But the bill also says it cannot be challenged in state court, an 'outlandish, shocking' proposition, said Dallas attorney Charles Siegel."

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/12/texas-abortion-pill-bill-state-court/

#healthcare #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #PrescriptionDrugs #mifepristone #texas #txlege

"Several U.S. regional climate centers shut down Thursday — including those in the Midwest, Great Plains and South.

Those three centers are responsible for collecting weather data across 21 states, as well as sharing drought conditions and other online tools. But their operations ceased at midnight on Thursday due to a lapse in federal funding..."

https://www.stlpr.org/2025-04-18/regional-climate-centers-shut-down-abruptly

#PublicHealth #weather #climate #drought #temperatures #agriculture #farming #healthcare #transportation #NOAA #USpol