bicmay

bicmay, 2 months ago to books

"Nguyen, who is an executive producer, and the creative team hope the series will force viewers to center the Vietnamese perspective of the conflict while rethinking fundamental American myths, including about how the country still wields its geopolitical power in a fractured world today. 'Everything that the United States was doing in 1975 are things that are still happening now,' Nguyen says."

https://time.com/6961770/the-sympathizer-adaptation-hbo/

#aapi #aanhpi #VietnamWar #vietnamese #books #Bookstodon #television

bicmay, 2 months ago to food

"Consumer Reports (CR), a consumer advocacy group, said it tested 12 store-bought versions of Lunchables — which are made by Kraft Heinz — along with similar lunch and snack kits and found “relatively high levels of lead and cadmium” in the Lunchables kits...There is not a safe level of lead for children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes."

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4584070-lunchables-found-to-contain-relatively-high-lead-levels/

#PublicHealth #lead #food #nutrition #pediatrics #PrimaryCare

bicmay, 2 months ago to random

"Trump’s positions on abortion have been a roller coaster for decades. At one point in 2015, during his run for president, he took “five positions on abortion in three days,” according to The Washington Post and as NBC News detailed at the time."

He supported SCOTUS nominees who would overturn Roe v. Wade, which paid off after he left office. Why would anyone trust him to protect abortion access?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trumps-many-abortion-positions-timeline-rcna146601

#abortion #pregnancy #ReproductiveJustice #elections #election2024 #USpol

bicmay, 2 months ago to transgender

" The Vatican has blasted the practices of gender-affirming surgery and maternal surrogacy in a new document, declaring both are inconsistent with God's plan for human life. The Catholic Church's document puts both practices on a par with abortion and euthanasia in terms of their perceived negative impact on human dignity."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/catholic-church-gender-affirming-surgery-surrogacy-human-dignity/

#transgender #surgery #pregnancy #surrogacy #catholic #religion

bicmay, 2 months ago to Medicine

“This is one of those studies at ACC that I think is potentially practice changing,” said Kim Eagle, director of the Frankel Cardiovascular Center at the University of Michigan who wasn’t involved in the trial. It’s “a very important landmark study that will change the way patients who are currently managed with [heart attacks] are cared for.”

https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/07/beta-blockers-heart-attack-trial/

#healthcare #medicine #HeartAttack #HeartFailure #BetaBlockers #cardiology #PrimaryCare #PrescriptionDrugs

bicmay, 2 months ago to food

"It’s raising concerns about their role in diet-related health outcomes such as heart disease, diabetes, and obesity, as our busy lifestyles may push us to reach for easy, quick, or low-cost, rather than cooking and eating more unprocessed or minimally processed foods like fruits, vegetables, eggs, nuts or seeds."

https://fortune.com/well/article/ultra-processed-foods-health-effects-how-to-recognize/

#PublicHealth #food #nutrition #health

bicmay, 2 months ago to EyeHealth

"With millions of people flocking to big cities and small towns to witness Monday's eclipse, hospitals are on high alert for increased traffic accidents, the potential for mass casualty events and, of course, eye damage.

Eclipse fervor will especially strain understaffed health care systems in rural towns that may not have dealt with an event of this scale."

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/05/total-solar-eclipse-hospitals

#healthcare #PublicHealth #SolarEclipse #hospitals #EyeHealth #Vision

bicmay, 2 months ago to workersrights

"The study found that those who had more erratic work schedules when they were younger—for example, those who worked evenings, nights and variable hours—slept less, had lower sleep quality and were more likely to report depressive symptoms at age 50, compared to people who worked traditional daytime hours."

https://www.newsweek.com/health-work-employment-patterns-sleep-mental-study-new-york-1886109

#work #labor #OccupationalHealth #PublicHealth #health

bicmay, 2 months ago to random

"An SSP in Indiana had a lifetime syringe return rate of 92%. One in Florida reduced public syringe litter by nearly half. Being uncomfortable with a solution, or frustrated with what seems like a lack of progress, is not a reason to stop using tactics proven to save lives and advance public safety."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2024/04/03/fentanyl-opioid-epidemic-syringe-services-harm-reduction/73169725007/

#SubstanceUse #NeedleExchange #opioids #PublicHealth

bicmay, 2 months ago to Arizona

"Arizona for Abortion Access — a coalition of organizations including the ACLU of Arizona, Reproductive Freedom for All Arizona and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona — announced they have so far collected more than 500,000 voter signatures, with more than three months left until the July 3 submission deadline.

The required number of valid voter signatures for constitutional amendments is 383,923."

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4570793-backers-arizona-abortion-amendment-say-have-signatures-for-ballot/

#elections #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #arizona

bicmay, 2 months ago to random

"The loss of a trusted doctor is never easy, and it’s an experience that is increasingly common.

The stress of the pandemic drove a lot of health care workers to retire or quit. Now, a nationwide shortage of doctors and others who provide primary care is making it hard to find replacements. And as patients are shuffled from one provider to the next, it’s eroding their trust in the health system."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/primary-care-patients-lose-doctors-trust-rhode-island/

#healthcare #doctors #physicians #PrimaryCare #clinics #FQHC

bicmay, 2 months ago to random

"'Nationally, the primary physician works hard and has a lot of responsibilities but not well compensated compared to other specialties, so if you and me are in the same class and we have the same amount of debt, but you chose a specialty, I'm choosing to be a family physician, my pay is about half of yours,' Xu said."

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/michigan-health-experts-fear-primary-doctor-shortage-will-worsen-if-not-addressed/

#healthcare #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine #MedEd #StudentDebt

bicmay, 2 months ago to Travel

"Her experience illustrates the layers of anxiety pumping parents endure as they travel, backed up by stories of dumped milk, carry-on pump pushback, alleged “breast milk discrimination” and in-flight crackdowns. Lactating travelers who are not able to pump can face more than embarrassment and discomfort: It could result in infection and reduced milk supply."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/03/21/breast-pump-airlines-carryon-rule-dot/

#breastfeeding #PublicHealth #travel #flying #pediatrics

bicmay, 2 months ago to Texas

"U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s office has repeatedly dismissed ethical questions about his three-times-a-week podcasting gig, saying he makes no money from the venture with a company that lobbies Congress.

But over the last year, iHeartMedia, the massive radio network that picked up the “Verdict with Ted Cruz” podcast in 2022, has made regular, and growing, payments to a super PAC supporting the Texas Republican’s reelection effort."

🎁: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/ted-cruz-podcast-iheartmedia-19373225.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaG91c3RvbmNocm9uaWNsZS5jb20vcG9saXRpY3MvdGV4YXMvYXJ0aWNsZS90ZWQtY3J1ei1wb2RjYXN0LWloZWFydG1lZGlhLTE5MzczMjI1LnBocA%3D%3D&time=MTcxMTkxMjY5MDM0OQ%3D%3D&rid=MDcyMjg5MTAtNzRlYS00OGUyLTlmODQtNjI5ZTE0Zjg0MzRi&sharecount=Mg%3D%3D

#elections #election2024 #texas

bicmay, 2 months ago to music

"And though some may forget because of her proximity to the glitz and glamor of Hollywood, Beyoncé is a Black Texan.

In that context, her critics are misunderstanding Cowboy Carter’s lush symbolism. She’s striving to communicate many things, of course, while also simply reminding all of us that Black cowboys and rodeo performers have been part of the social fabric of Texas, the South and the US for a very long time."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-03-26/beyonce-s-cowboy-carter-album-cover-makes-complete-sense-to-black-texans

#music #CountryMusic #UShistory #texas #CowboyCarter

bicmay, 2 months ago to random

"Although women have been talking about IUD pain for years, the complaint has become more prominent as younger IUD users make the case on social media that women are not given adequate options to manage their pain."

🎁: https://wapo.st/3VzgjaB

#contraception #FamilyPlanning #IUD #ReproductiveJustice #pain #PainManagement

bicmay, 2 months ago to random

"My field reporting began in summer 2022, when I traveled to India and Bangladesh — which had been the site of a grueling battle in the war on the disease. I tracked down aging smallpox workers, some now in their 80s and 90s, who had done the painstaking work of hunting down every last case of smallpox in the region and vaccinating everyone who had been exposed...How did they defeat smallpox? And what lessons does that victory hold for us today?"

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/smallpox-eradication-lessons-insecurity-public-health-gounder/

#PublicHealth #smallpox

bicmay, 2 months ago to Idaho

"That statute makes it a crime to perform or attempt to perform an abortion or for health care professionals to assist in an abortion and contains only narrow exceptions. Labrador's letter last year interpreted the criminal statute's "assisting" language as meaning a doctor's license could be suspended for referring a patient for an out-of-state legal abortion."

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/idaho-faces-skeptical-court-fight-over-out-of-state-abortion-referrals-2024-03-27/

#healthcare #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #idaho

bicmay, 2 months ago to science

"The Biden administration and a manufacturer of mifepristone, Danco Laboratories, have argued in legal filings to the Supreme Court that federal judges do not have the scientific and health expertise to evaluate drug safety and that allowing them to do so undermines the FDA’s regulatory authority."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/supreme-court-mifepristone-case-medication-abortion-fda-authority-1873-obscenity-law/

#healthcare #PrescriptionDrugs #FDA #SCOTUS #mifepristone #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #science #research #USpol

bicmay, 2 months ago to LGBTQ

"Three main tendencies compose the anti-trans bloc in America today. The first, and most obvious, is the religious right...The second tendency is also obvious, if smaller: gender-critical feminists, better known as TERFs...But the most insidious source of the anti-trans movement in this country is, quite simply, liberals."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trans-rights-biological-sex-gender-judith-butler.html?ueid=3cfa8f4f50a9553973aca45ad19ebbc7

#healthcare #USpol #lgbtq #transgender #longread

bicmay, 2 months ago to Texas

“I heard you say you don't make the law, but I'm here today because I tried to get the Legislature to act when I lobbied last session and couldn't even get an amendment on fetal anomaly out of committee. I tried to get the courts to help us...and they said we needed to wait for you. And now you're saying it's not your responsibility either. So where else am I supposed to go?”

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/22/texas-medical-exception-board-abortion-guidance/

#ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #texas

bicmay, 2 months ago to random

"In May 2021, Thorpe had issued a formal apology for Antioch’s mistreatment of early Chinese immigrants, including the torching of Chinatown and driving out its residents, which has been documented by local newspapers and historians. Thorpe’s actions led to major cities like San Jose, Los Angeles and San Francisco passing similar resolutions."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/california-city-wrestles-history-discrimination-early-chinese-immigran-rcna144501

#aapi #aanhpi #USHistory #immigrants

bicmay, 2 months ago to teenagers

"Today, the teen babysitter as we knew her, in pop culture and in reality, has all but disappeared. People seem to worry less about adolescents and more for them, and for their future prospects. As Fass put it, 'Teenagers don’t seem very grown-up these days.' There’s not much reason to fear or exalt babysitters anymore—because our society no longer trusts teens to babysit much at all."

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/03/teen-babysitters-intensive-parenting/677793/?utm_source=pocket_mylist

#babysitting #teenagers #adolescents #labor #jobs

bicmay, 2 months ago to climate

"Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration unexpectedly yanked its support from a sweeping proposal that would have protected millions of California’s indoor workers from dangerous heat...But the board that oversees worker safety immediately defied the administration...by unanimously approving new standards intended to protect people who work in poorly ventilated warehouses, steamy restaurant kitchens, and other indoor job sites."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/california-indoor-heat-labor-regulation-newsom-withdraws-support/

#PublicHealth #Labor #Climate #California

bicmay, 2 months ago to food

"The lawmakers — Nguyen and Reps. Hoa Nguyen, Hai Pham, Khanh Pham and Thuy Tran — who are all Democrats, wrote that the code, as it stands, is discriminatory and unfair, particularly to more vulnerable communities.

'We believe that, as currently written and enforced, the city’s odor code is discriminatory and not objective by any known standards, leaving out certain, minority-owned small businesses,' the lawmakers wrote."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/pho-gabo-odor-complaints-portland-rcna143921

#aapi #aanhpi #food #restaurants #portland