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

“It was the place where I went for stories and entertainment and fantasies and escape because I couldn’t afford to buy any books myself,” he said. “These books were free and they connected me to the world — a world beyond my parents’ grocery store, beyond San Jose — a world of books that were not written for me … but those books did connect with me and gave me the idea I could be a writer.”

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/09/viet-thanh-nguyen-finding-a-voice-in-america/

#aapi #aanhpi #books #Bookstodon #libraries

"Montana’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that minors don’t need their parents’ permission to get an abortion in the state – agreeing with a lower court ruling that found the parental consent law violates the privacy clause in the state constitution."

https://apnews.com/article/montana-abortion-parental-consent-980e974b46721f6fcdefd9ac85a2a996

#healthcare #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #minors #adolescents #YoungAdults #privacy #montana

"A team of researchers from the University of Houston have developed a new vaccine to treat and prevent the spread of flu and multiple coronavirus strains.

Through two nasal sprays — an immune activating therapeutic treatment and a new vaccine — the team of UH researchers have not only broken ground on vaccinating against SARS-CoV-2 and the flu virus, but also on creating a universal coronavirus vaccine."

🎁: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/health/article/university-of-houston-covid-nasal-vaccine-19628489.php?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8jHdTGPTA0ZDGpBBkXD4alMro0k1mfkC_RPKTjlb-Jn97O9IIaK3HECl4naYvE2qefQ3iLomtILJFGIVzBBXMjKfTPMw&_hsmi=319679493&utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaG91c3RvbmNocm9uaWNsZS5jb20vbmV3cy9ob3VzdG9uLXRleGFzL2hlYWx0aC9hcnRpY2xlL3VuaXZlcnNpdHktb2YtaG91c3Rvbi1jb3ZpZC1uYXNhbC12YWNjaW5lLTE5NjI4NDg5LnBocA%3D%3D&time=MTcyMzQ2Nzg3ODY0NA%3D%3D&rid=MDcyMjg5MTAtNzRlYS00OGUyLTlmODQtNjI5ZTE0Zjg0MzRi&sharecount=MQ%3D%3D

#PublicHealth #covid #flu #vaccines #immunizations

"Nguyen said after moving to New York for college, talking politics with her parents became easier. She still sometimes struggles to express the topic in Vietnamese, taking some moments to look up translations for political terms, she said.

But with each conversation, Nguyen said they have become more patient, learning more about their parents’ lives and preferences in the process."

https://voices.aaja.org/stories/austin-2024/asian-americans-voting-personal/

#aapi #aanhpi #elections #elections2024 #USpol

"Agenda47 is Trump's official campaign platform for the 2024 election. It is separate from the oft-mentioned Project 2025, but proposes his plans for crime, immigration and other issues.

While Trump's proposals on healthcare are slim, he has put forward a few policies focused on drug shortages, prices and addiction."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/05/trump-agenda47-drug-shortage-prices-addiction/74587818007/

#healthcare #DrugShortages #DrugPrices #PrescriptionDrugs #PhRMA #SubstanceUse #elections2024 #elections #USpol

"A 2023 KFF survey found that, among Black and Hispanic adults, those with self-described darker skin tones reported more experiences with discrimination in daily life compared with those who have lighter skin tones. People who feel they experience daily discrimination can be at higher risk for depression, loneliness, increased alcohol and drug use, and anxiety, data shows.

And colorism can also lead to physical health concerns."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/colorism-mental-health-anxiety-discrimination-race-skin/

#healthcare #MentalHealth #colorism

"...they instead are...prompted to enter their address, cellphone number and age.

If they agree to submit all that, the system still does not steer them to a voter registration page. Instead, it shows them a “thank you” page.

So that person who wanted help registering to vote? In the end, they got no help at all registering. But they did hand over priceless personal data to a political operation."

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/elon-musk-pac-voter-data-trump-harris.html

#elections #election2024 #USpol #data #misinformation #disinformation

"After team trials in June, Lee admitted that, a year ago, she did not think she would be back at another Olympics, battling two kidney diseases while training and competing at Auburn University. Both Lee and Biles have been outspoken about the key role that therapy played in their journeys to Paris, and their journeys back to the top of the podium."

https://www.startribune.com/2024-paris-olympics-usa-gymnastics-gold-medal-simone-biles-suni-less/600387668

#aapi #aanhpi #Olympics #TeamUSA #ParisOlympics #Paris2024 #Olympics2024 #gymnastics

"...10 states have not expanded Medicaid, the federal-state program that provides health care for low-income people. They are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

The Affordable Care Act allowed states to expand Medicaid to cover people up to 138% of the federal poverty line. The costs of insuring more people would be paid for primarily with federal funds..."

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/07/25/in-the-10-states-that-didnt-expand-medicaid-1-6m-cant-afford-health-insurance/

#HealthPolicy #Medicaid #insurance #ACA

"The Biden administration has quietly pushed more than a half-dozen countries to weaken, delay or rethink baby formula regulations aimed at protecting the public’s health — sometimes after manufacturers complained, a ProPublica investigation has found."

https://www.propublica.org/article/baby-formula-regulation-biden-administration-europe-taiwan

#PublicHealth #breastfeeding #BabyFriendly #formula #marketing #advertising #business #trade

"A Kamala Harris presidency could have far-reaching consequences for the U.S. health care system, from abortion rights to insurance coverage to drug pricing, according to policy experts and former advisers to the vice president.

For starters, Harris is expected to focus heavily on protecting abortion access, an issue she has been fluent in using against Donald Trump and the Republican Party."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/kamala-harris-presidency-mean-us-health-care-abortion-rcna163124

#healthcare #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #DrugPrices #election2024 #USpol

"Women in the U.S. are...less likely to be employed than many of their peers abroad. That’s due in part to the fact that caregiving for young children is considered a private responsibility in the U.S., unlike in many other high-income countries, said University of Miami economist Stefania Albanesi. Her work has shown that the U.S. devoted substantially less public spending, as a share of gross domestic product, to families than other developed countries."

🎁: https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/more-women-are-working-than-ever-but-theyre-doing-two-jobs-bf93b9bf?st=s6sw0plufz898ln&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

#labor

"The poorest performers were spread across the southern half of the country. Mississippi had the lowest score overall, followed by Texas, Nevada, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

'This is the very first time we at the Fund have created a scorecard exclusively focused on states’ performance in reproductive care and women’s health,' said Dr. Joseph Betancourt, president of the Commonwealth Fund."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/18/health/womens-health-state-rankings-commonwealth-fund/index.html

#healthcare #WomensHealth #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #Medicaid #HealthPolicy

"Olympic track star Allyson Felix is headed to Paris this week—but not to compete on the track as she did for the last two decades. Felix, the most decorated Olympian in track and field with 11 medals, will instead be traveling with her family of four to launch the Olympic Village’s inaugural nursery to support parent athletes in partnership with Pampers."

https://fortune.com/well/2024/07/16/allyson-felix-olympic-village-nursery-mothers/

#sports #Olympics #parenting #LactationSupport #breastfeeding

"He was nearly ready to give up on filmmaking when, in a burst of personal inspiration, he wrote and directed “Minari,” an intimate family drama rooted in his history as a son of Korean immigrants, growing up in rural Arkansas. The movie became a critical sensation; it won the top prize at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, and the Korean actress Yuh-jung Youn...won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress."

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/lee-isaac-chungs-upward-spiral

#aapi #aanhpi #films #movies #entertainment

“We are effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too,” Vance said in a 2021 interview with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

https://19thnews.org/2024/07/jd-vance-trump-vice-president-pick-views-abortion-lgbtq/

#elections #elections2024 #USpol #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #lgbtq

"Texas Republicans have bragged about the state’s low taxes, low regulations and pro-business environment since 1999, when they took control of every elected statewide office. They promised a deregulated electricity grid would produce inexpensive and reliable power, and it did for a while.

However, decades of underinvestment and a refusal to prepare for a harsher climate have left Texans vulnerable."

🎁: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/centerpoint-texas-hurricane-power-outage-19565095.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaG91c3RvbmNocm9uaWNsZS5jb20vYnVzaW5lc3MvY29sdW1uaXN0cy90b21saW5zb24vYXJ0aWNsZS9jZW50ZXJwb2ludC10ZXhhcy1odXJyaWNhbmUtcG93ZXItb3V0YWdlLTE5NTY1MDk1LnBocA%3D%3D&time=MTcyMDk3MDI1NzcwOQ%3D%3D&rid=MDcyMjg5MTAtNzRlYS00OGUyLTlmODQtNjI5ZTE0Zjg0MzRi&sharecount=MQ%3D%3D

#energy #electricity #power #Beryl #climate #Houston #Texas

This is a cool project where the original stars of "The Avengers" reunited to dub their characters' dialogue in Lakota. It's inspiring to see how relationships developed through activism IRL can lead to good work preserving language and culture, particularly of a community that has been historically marginalized.

https://www.laineygossip.com/marvel-video-showing-process-to-create-lakota-language-dub-avengers-huge-step-for-indigenous-language-preservation/78512

#movies #films #entertainment #NativeAmerican #FirstNations #languages #culture

"Electricity outages caused by Hurricane Beryl in Houston and southeast Texas forced health care providers there into a sharp pivot on Wednesday as they were forced to hold onto discharged patients longer instead of having them return to powerless homes baking in the summer heat."

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/10/texas-hospitals-beryl-power-outages/

#healthcare #PublicHealth #hospitals #Houston #Texas #Beryl #heat #electricity #power #disaster #PowerOutages #ElectricityOutages #climate #environment

"Women are less likely than men to get early diagnoses for conditions from heart disease to cancer, studies have found, and they are more likely to have their medical concerns dismissed or misdiagnosed. Because disorders specifically affecting women have long been understudied, much remains unknown about causes and treatments.

That’s especially true when it comes to the effects of menstruation on mental health."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/premenstrual-dysphoric-disorder-pmdd-beyond-pms/

#healthcare #science #research #medicine #WomensHealth