Notices by Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified: (bicmay@med-mastodon.com), page 2

"In an era where Trump is singlehandedly dismantling decades of diversity, equity, and inclusion that generations of women, people of color, and queer people have fought for, the Super Bowl felt like a microcosm of a larger problem. Not only does it feel like Trump and his ilk want Swift out of football, it’s like they want to return our entire country to a time when they were in control, had all the power, and could say whatever they wanted without repercussions.” https://www.glamour.com/story/why-taylor-swift-getting-booed-at-the-super-bowl-was-even-more-chilling-than-you-think #USpol

Christian couple adopts a Chinese child knowing she would one day need a heart transplant. They refuse to vaccinate her against COVID-19 or flu because "the vaccines conflict with their religious and medical beliefs" so she can't be put on the transplant list.

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/13/what-did-childrens-hospital-say-about-the-controversy-over-vaccines/78511635007/

#healthcare #vaccines #vaccinations #immunizations #flu #covid #OrganTransplants #transplantation #ethics

“If somebody says the sky is green, just because they say it, doesn’t make the sky green,” Birnbaum said. “I’m looking at the medical literature, research that’s been done. I’m looking at real people in front of me. I’m not looking at some right-wing, religious ideologue who is referring to this as ‘gender ideology.’ It’s no ideology. They have the ideology. I’m dealing with science and medicine.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/new-york-doctor-says-continue-providing-transition-care-trump-executiv-rcna191289

#healthcare #lgbtq #transgender #minors #GenderAffirming #USpol

"The stakes are high for hospitals because Trump's executive order directs the government to take actions to end transgender care for people under age 19 through 'regulatory and sub-regulatory actions.' At the top of the list of laws and programs that might be involved in such actions is 'Medicare or Medicaid conditions of participation or conditions for coverage.'"

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/10/nx-s1-5292390/trump-transgender-gender-affirming-care-hospital

#healthcare #hospitals #lgbtq #transgender #pediatrics #FamilyMedicine #AdolescentHealth #USpol

"As Trump’s policy decisions begin to impact restaurant workers who are immigrants, the price of food — especially eggs, had a measurable impact on street vendors in New York and wine imports in California, Texas diners seem ready to vote with their wallets. On January 31, a thread in the /houston subreddit appeared to source a list of non-Trump and MAGA restaurants.

https://houston.eater.com/2025/2/6/24359621/texas-diners-reddit-anti-maga-trump-restaurant-list

#USpol #restaurants #dining #boycott #donors #texas #houston #SanAntonio #denton

"A Wisconsin couple has filed a lawsuit against pharmacy benefit manager Optum Rx and Walgreens, alleging their son's death was linked to a sudden price increase in his asthma medication."

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/pharmacy/wisconsin-couple-sues-walgreens-optum-rx-over-sons-death.html

#healthcare #DrugPrices #PrescriptionDrugs #PBMs #optumrx #walgreens #lawsuit #courts #CostsOfCare

"Some 150,000 Koreans living in the United States are reportedly subject to deportations ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a local news report.

Of around 14 million migrants who were ordered to leave the United States, approximately 150,000 are presumed to be Korean nationals, reported Korea's Yonhap News.

The number includes 20,000 Korean adoptees who have not yet received U.S. citizenship."

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-01-31/national/diplomacy/150000-Koreans-in-US-subject-to-Trumps-deportation-order-Report/2232734

#aapi #aanhpi #immigrant #immigration #USpol

"President Trump says fentanyl smuggled into the U.S. is a key reason for imposing tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico. But NPR found that Trump and his team made false statements about the fentanyl crisis. Canada, in particular, plays no meaningful role in America's fentanyl-overdose epidemic."

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/02/nx-s1-5283957/fentanyl-trump-tariffs-china-canada-mexico

#PublicHealth #opioids #fentanyl #tariffs #economics #USpol #canada #mexico #china

"I was so confused. I thought it was written for somebody like Jason Statham, because I’ve been conditioned to think that when you have an action star, he needs to look like The Rock or Stallone or Schwarzenegger. I didn’t think anybody that looks like me could star in this role. Luckily, they didn’t give up on me."

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/ke-huy-quan-focus-interview/

#aapi #aanhpi #movies #films #entertainment #representation #action

"At least four cases of measles, including two involving school-aged children, have been reported in Texas in less than two weeks, putting state health agencies on alert.

For some communities, this is the first case of measles in more than 20 years."

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/30/texas-measles-vaccinations-schools/

#PublicHealth #measles #vaccines #immunizations #texas #txlege #houston #HarrisCounty #lubbock

"ICE agents almost never carry judicial warrants giving them the authority to enter private homes or businesses without permission, so they often wait to make an arrest when the person they’re looking for leaves their home or car. And in every case we worked on, when the agents realized they were being watched, they abandoned their stakeout."

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-watch-programs-immigrants-how-to-start

#neighborhoods #NeighborhoodWatch #immigrant #immigration #ICE #ICEraids #surveillance #deportation #racism #USpol #resist

"Americans’ health has long been unequal, but a new study shows that the disparity between the life expectancies of different populations has nearly doubled since 2000. 'This is like comparing very different countries,' said Tom Bollyky, director of the global health program at the Council on Foreign Relations and an author of the study."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/growing-disparity-life-expectancy-racial-ethnic-groups-study/

#PublicHealth #disparities #inequality #race #Indigenous #NativeAmerican #BlackMastodon #latinos #aapi #aanhpi

A few years ago, some Texas Doctors for America colleagues and I were critical about a physician who was spreading misinformation about hydroxychloroquine's effectiveness against COVID: https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2020/12/06/letters-to-the-editor-doctors-for-america-offers-advice-the-us-election-system-klyde-warren-park-fountain-supreme-court-decision-on-church-attendance/

He struck back: https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2020/12/12/letters-to-the-editor-doctors-defend-the-use-of-hcq-oak-cliff-log-cabin-male-aggression-freedom-to-worship-ut-coach-fred-akers/

Fast forward to present day. Guess who lost his board certification? https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/113624

#healthcare #covid #hydroxychloroquine #PrescriptionDrugs #misinformation #disinformation #texas #physicians #boards #BoardCertification

"It’s another industry undermining my people, targeting them with predation. Why do I think that? Because we arrived at this era by way of a law that’s been used to harm Black people and marginalized groups. Because Big Gambling resembles Big Tobacco in troubling ways. Because the industry must know that its efforts intersect with a culture, maybe the most influential culture in the Black community..."

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a63162380/how-legal-sports-betting-targets-black-individuals/

#PopCulture #sports #gambling #betting #marketing #race

"It’s the first time in recorded history that the planet was above a hoped-for limit to warming for an entire year, according to measurements from four of the six teams. Scientists say if Earth stays above the threshold long-term, it will mean increased deaths, destruction, species loss and sea level rise from the extreme weather that accompanies warming."

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-warming-hot-record-2024-disasters-12f899f071fcdbd051ad49a872611e92

#PublicHealth #climate #ClimateChange #environment #weather #disasters

"More than 900 incarcerated people are among the more than 7,500 personnel helping fight the historic, and destructive, Southern California wildfires...This is not a new practice. California has relied on incarcerated firefighters since 1915. And prison labor has been used to respond to emergencies and disasters nationwide for centuries, said Bianca Tylek, executive director of Worth Rises, a criminal justice advocacy organization."

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/10/nx-s1-5254122/inmate-firefighters-california-wildfires

#PublicHealth #labor #CriminalJustice

"At the University of Pennsylvania Health System, doctors are nudged to talk about a patient’s treatment and end-of-life preferences by an artificially intelligent algorithm that predicts the chances of death.

But it’s far from being a set-it-and-forget-it tool. A routine tech checkup revealed the algorithm decayed during the covid-19 pandemic, getting 7 percentage points worse at predicting who would die, according to a 2022 study."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/artificial-intelligence-algorithms-software-health-care/ #healthcare #hospitals #AI #healthIT

"A new paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit economic research organization,...found that since the 2022 fall of Roe v. Wade, the states with near-total abortion bans — 13 at the time of the analysis — appear to have lost 36,000 people per quarter. Single-person households, which typically skew younger, were more likely to move out of states with bans."

https://19thnews.org/2025/01/abortion-bans-young-people-moving-analysis/

#healthcare #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #business #economics

"Medical students at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston are developing artificial intelligence tools to help them learn how to provide all-options pregnancy counseling without putting themselves or their patients at risk of prosecution under the state’s abortion ban."

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/future-pulse/2025/01/07/texas-turns-to-ai-abortion-training-00196787

#healthcare #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #MedEd #MedSchools #MedStudents #OptionsCounseling

"I had to scrub out mid-surgery to call United, only to find that the person on the line didn't even have access to the patient's full medical information, despite the procedure already being pre-approved. It's beyond frustrating and, frankly, unacceptable. Patients and providers deserve better than this. We should be focused on care, not bureaucracy."

https://www.newsweek.com/doctor-says-unitedhealthcare-stopped-cancer-surgery-ask-if-necessary-2012069

#healthcare #insurance #UnitedHealthcare #PriorAuth #PriorAuthorization #surgery #cancer