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Per The New York Times, the #TrumpRegime fired everyone responsible for the program that detects, tracks, treats drug drug-resistant Gonorrhea, also known as "the clap," is a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
What could possibly go wrong?
#Culture #Science #Medicine #Healthcare #Politics #Trump #DOGE #Project2025
#OracleHealth breach compromises patient data at US hospitals
From the @texastribune: Two people have been arrested and charged with performing illegal abortions at a Houston-area health clinic, the first criminal charges brought under the state’s near-total #abortion ban. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-first-abortion-arrests-attorney-general-investigation/
#politics #USpol #KenPaxton #healthcare #CriminalJustice #HumanRights #news #Texas #Houston #GulfCoast
The HHS rule banning trans care from many ACA plans is open for public comment now. Only about 100 comments so far.
Please comment if you're in the US, and boost
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/19/2025-04083/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-marketplace-integrity-and-affordability
More hypocrisy from Streeting, who is using yet another Reform Party dogwhistle. There are thousands of UK medical graduates on the scrap heap because they can't find jobs in the UK.
#NHS #WesStreeting #Healthcare #UKPolitics
Post-Brexit reliance on NHS staff from ‘red list’ countries is unethical, Streeting says | NHS | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/21/post-brexit-reliance-on-nhs-staff-from-red-list-countries-is-unethical-streeting-says
I can’t get over the cognitive dissonance of spending 12 hours of intense work in clinic, using every minute of my 25 years of training and experience to formulate treatment plans for my patients with #cancer, and then to come home and check the news and to read about every part of the infrastructure needed to attain the knowledge for these treatment plans bring intentionally dismantled
Just spent 6 hours in an ER (I'm fine) and witnessed, in no particular order:
A nurse bit by a patient
A patient screaming MURDERERS from an exam room
Two nurses patiently dressing and re-dessing an elderly man who kept stripping
Someone yelling at a student doctor about wait times
Urine being spilled on the floor
Someone yelling "the patient made a run for it!"
A patient trying to call the cops on doctors
Whatever we think hospital workers should be paid, it's not enough.
Wes Streeting is all over the media pushing his health 'reforms' this weekend.
A reminder..
"Good Law Project research shows that more than 60% of the money invested in the new health secretary since he entered parliament in 2015 has come from companies and individuals with links to private health"
#WesStreeting #UKPolitics #PrivateHealthcare #Healthcare #NHS
How private health has invested in Wes Streeting | Good Law Project
https://goodlawproject.org/how-private-health-has-invested-in-wes-streeting/
Content warning Women’s health nightmare, American
Content warning Politics & healthcare
Yesterday’s politically-motivated & gleeful media headlines about the huge increase in people waiting more than 12 hours in A&E were intended to chock. As ever, Prof Robertson provides some context.
#Politics #Healthcare
On average, only 9 A&E patients each, wait more than 12 hours, safely thanks to the triage system, in Scotland’s 32% better-staffed hospital departments https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/02/15/on-average-only-9-ae-patients-each-wait-more-than-12-hours-safely-thanks-to-the-triage-system-in-scotlands-32-better-staffed-hospital-departments/
Content warning Politics & corruption
Why is the UK Labour Government so intent on privatising the NHS? As always, follow the money. These bribes … sorry, donations, may provide a clue.
#Politics #Healthcare
Labour MPs rake in over £300,000 from donors linked to private healthcare firms https://www.thenational.scot/news/24937265.labour-mps-rake-300k-donors-linked-private-healthcare/?ref=rss
Seattle Children's Hospital has begun halting some gender affirming care and caved far earlier than most expected in the face of Trump's illegal executive orders.
There's a call to action below and protests are planned today and tomorrow.
https://monogr.ph/67a3f86c0b0ee042476f706c
#Seattle #ProtectTransYouth #lgbtq #USPol #Healthcare #calltoaction
"Poor medical care that preceded the 2023 death of an 8-year-old girl at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility in Harlingen 'was not aberrant but consistent' with other incidents of inadequate medical care received by vulnerable migrants in federal custody, a U.S. Senate panel concluded in a report released Friday."
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/24/texas-migrant-child-death-investigation-senate-committee/
What the Hell Is Going on at #NIH?
#Scientists sound the alarm about #Trump unprecedented “Big Brother” research #crackdown. “pause” goes beyond grant reviews - part of larger #blackout on #research at #NIH, across federal govt. Trump admin paused all external comms—”health advisories, weekly #scientific reports, updates to websites, social media posts” at #HHS, which includes the NIH, #FDA, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (#CDC). https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/donald-trump-hhs-nih-cancer-research-pause-crackdown-grant-funding-delays-cancellations-communications/ #medicine #healthcare
From @cbarbermd , now with a gift link:
YIKES. Don’t expect any bird flu updates, even late on Friday night!⏰
The Trump administration has instructed the FDA, CDC and NIH to pause all external communications, such as weekly scientific reports, MMWRs, social media posts, health updates, etc.
https://wapo.st/4aqfN44
#CDC #press #healthcare
