bicmay

bicmay, 2 months ago to random

"With a stroke of a pen Tuesday morning, Gov. Kathy Hochul guaranteed birth control access for women in New York...As of Tuesday, all pharmacies across the state are allowed to dispense three types of contraception: The pill, ring or patch. Women in New York, or even those just visiting New York, can purchase up to a year's supply without visiting a doctor."

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/kathy-hochul-reproductive-health-announcement/

#healthcare #pharmacies #ReproductiveJustice #contraception #NewYork

bicmay, 2 months ago to random

"Critics fear that if the final guidelines don’t clearly state a need for N95 masks, hospitals won’t adequately stockpile them, paving the way for shortages in a future health emergency. And if the document isn’t revised to emphasize ventilation and air filtration, health facilities won’t invest in upgrades."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/health-workers-cdc-guidance-infection-control-airborne-transmission/

#publichealth #air #masks #hospitals #labor

bicmay, 2 months ago to Economics

"Women live almost six years longer than men, on average, to age 79 versus 73½ years old, respectively...This means women must spread their income over a longer time in retirement, raising the odds they’ll run out of money...Women also often put aside less savings relative to men, both because their average earnings at work are lower and they may have taken time off to care for kids or an aging parent..."

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/15/why-longevity-makes-social-security-so-important-for-women.html

#economics #personalfinance #women

bicmay, 2 months ago to Health

"Misinformation commonly includes 'fake experts,' according to Sander van der Linden, a professor of social psychology in society at Cambridge who researches misinformation...'You wouldn’t want to go to an ear and nose doctor to do a heart operation,' he said. 'Is this a vaccine expert, or is this a doctor who actually does no research and has no expertise on vaccinations?'"

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/16/well/health-misinformation.html?_hsmi=298657719&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-93jseQP5MnHoTw3cly7hOPYAFde6w9uAxkx6xqpi0_4bgaIjDMqZ14V9H9Xtd3qon0il6SaxrMW0N1z5dQBmK2AQnhow

#publichealth #misinformation #disinformation #health

bicmay, 2 months ago to privacy

"Hackers stole district data, including files where children were identifiable, and then demanded the district pay a ransom for it. When district officials refused, the hackers released the data online. It included Social Security numbers, school security details and information about sexual assaults and psychiatric holds."

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/12/1237497833/students-schools-cybersecurity-hackers-credit

#schools #privacy #infosec

bicmay, 2 months ago to Texas

"If you ever wonder why state laws and policies are more radical than most Texans would prefer, the answer has a lot to do with Dunn and his checkbook. If you question why Texas’s elected officials no longer represent the majority of Texans’ views, the reason can be traced to the tactics employed by Dunn and the many organizations and politicians he funds and influences."

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/billionaire-tim-dunn-runs-texas/

#texas #txlege #TaxTheRich #christian #theocracy #schools #vouchers #abortion #lgbtq #longread

bicmay, 2 months ago to climate

"As Vox’s Anna North has explained, such changes are jarring emotionally, deeply consequential for the environment, and economically taxing for places that rely on cold-weather activities such as skiing and snowboarding. Shorter, warmer winters are poised to have a host of impacts including throwing off animals’ schedules for hibernation and reducing the size of snowpacks in different places, curbing their water supply."

https://www.vox.com/policy/24098936/climate-change-snowpack-el-nino-spring-winter

#climate #environment #publichealth #winter

bicmay, 2 months ago to random

"Thirty-four states have laws that criminalize people living with HIV in some capacity —policies that largely arose in the 1980s and ‘90s, driven by fear, homophobia and a lack of medical answers. But significant advancements in HIV treatment have drastically changed a person’s health outlook. Over the years, critics say, these laws have become another tool to criminalize Black people, LGBTQ+ people and sex workers..."
https://19thnews.org/2024/03/hiv-criminalization-states-laws/

#healthcare #publichealth #criminaljustice #hiv

bicmay, 2 months ago to Texas

"Federally funded family planning centers in Texas must receive parental consent before prescribing birth control to teenagers, an appeals court ruled Tuesday, partially upholding a decision from a lower court...It’s the highest profile legal challenge to birth control access since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, and could be appealed to the Supreme Court."

https://19thnews.org/2024/03/texas-teens-birth-control-clinics-title-x/

#healthcare #reproductivejustice #contraception #texas

bicmay, 2 months ago to business

"Worried about hospitals closing and higher costs for patients, state lawmakers are increasingly tangling with hospitals over potential health care mergers, in some cases derailing deals they think don’t serve the public interest...some proposed hospital deals in Connecticut, Louisiana, Minnesota and elsewhere have fizzled amid heavy pushback from lawmakers, organized labor and grassroots organizations."

https://stateline.org/2024/03/11/facing-public-backlash-some-health-care-companies-are-abandoning-hospital-deals/

#healthcare #hospitals #business #mergers

bicmay, 2 months ago to random

"The rash of measles outbreaks around the country has sparked concerns that the U.S. risks losing its status as a country where the disease has been eliminated, a distinction held since 2000.

As of last week, 41 measles cases have been confirmed across 15 states and New York City, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That puts the nation already on track to surpassing the 58 total cases that were detected in 2023."

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4517298-measles-outbreak-us-status-elimination/

#publichealth #measles

bicmay, 3 months ago to movies

"The 17-minute documentary takes an intimate look at the unique sisterhood between Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó, Wang’s paternal and maternal grandmothers. The pair initially met because of Wang’s parents and took a particular liking to each other. They became close after the deaths of their husbands, and eventually they chose to live together."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oscar-nominated-nai-nai-wai-po-asian-elders-rcna142130

#aapi #aanhpi #movies #films #documentaries #oscars #entertainment

bicmay, 3 months ago to food

"The newspaper Willamette Week reports that Pho Gabo, a Portland Vietnamese restaurant, closed one of its locations because of complaints from an anonymous neighbor about the restaurant's smell.

'Due to the city’s and the neighborhood’s complaints about the smell of the food that we grill and the foods that we serve customers we are temporarily closing this location,' read a sign taped to Pho Gabo's door."

https://www.delish.com/food-news/a60045101/portland-restaurant-pho-gabo-closed-smell/

#aapi #aanhpi #food #restaurants #portland #oregon

bicmay, 3 months ago to random

"More than half of Asian New Yorkers were on the receiving end of race-related hate in 2023, and fewer than half of those people reported the incidents to anyone, according to a new survey published Thursday.

Fifty-four percent of respondents to the survey by The Asian American Foundation said they 'experienced either insults, harassments, threats, or physical attacks in the past 12 months,'...”

https://gothamist.com/news/more-than-half-of-asian-new-yorkers-experienced-hateful-acts-in-2023-report-says

#aapi #aanhpi #stopasianhate

bicmay, 3 months ago to random

CW: violence

"That culture of self-sufficiency makes immigrant Chinese women resilient, but it can also make them resistant to help, said Sarah Wan, executive director of Community Youth Center, a nonprofit serving monolingual Asian victims of crime. When an Asian person is attacked in San Francisco, CYC advocates are usually among the first people to visit them at the hospital to translate, explain medical procedures and help navigate life after being discharged." https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/aa-bakery-stabbing-chinatown-18652361.php #aapi

bicmay, 3 months ago to business

"When Cerberus Capital Management bought an unprofitable Massachusetts hospital chain in 2010, many viewed the deal as a financial lifeline. Now some believe it was actually a noose.

Why it matters: The company, which Cerberus sold four years ago, is in severe distress and may close facilities, threatening care for thousands of patients, most of whom live in lower-income areas."

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/06/hospital-debacle-private-equity-cerberus-steward

#healthcare #business #privateequity #hospitals #massachusetts

bicmay, 3 months ago to environment

"People with microplastics and nanoplastics in plaque lining a major blood vessel in their neck may have a higher risk of heart attack, stroke or death, new research suggests.

The findings, published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, are the first time scientists have linked these tiny plastic particles, the result of degraded plastic pollution, to cardiovascular disease."

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/microplastics-nanoplastics-plaque-carotid-artery-heart-disease-rcna142067

#publichealth #plastics #environment #microplastics #heartdisease

bicmay, 3 months ago to random

"The first over-the-counter birth control pill will be available in U.S. stores later this month, allowing American women and teens to purchase contraceptive medication as easily as they buy aspirin...A one-month supply will cost about $20 and a three-month supply will cost around $50, according to the company’s suggested retail price. It will also be sold online."

https://apnews.com/article/birth-control-pill-pharmacy-contraceptive-add40fec7589dae8ba26eb29bee36b8b

#healthcare #reproductivejustice #pharmacies #otcdrugs #contraception

bicmay, 3 months ago to privacy

"on Friday, Judge Maria Cantú Hexsel of Travis County District Court issued an injunction against Mr. Paxton, just days after PFLAG sued to block the request, saying turning over the documents would cause 'irreparable injury, loss or damage' to the group. The judge added that such an ask would infringe on the group’s constitutional rights and that its members would be subject to 'gross invasions' of privacy."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/us/texas-paxton-transgender-records.html

#healthcare #privacy #lgbtq #transgender

bicmay, 3 months ago to random

"Guidelines that adhere to the highest standards of infection control might please purists in public health who don’t have to make policies for the real world. However, guidelines that seem to acknowledge that workers often don’t have paid sick leave and emergency child care, and that social interactions are important to folks, are more likely not only to be followed but to engender trust in public health authorities."

https://www.vox.com/2024/2/14/24073306/isolation-covid-guidelines-cdc-change

#publichealth #covid #isolation #ventilation #masks

bicmay, 3 months ago to Hair

"Matter of Trust, an ecologically focused group in San Francisco, has been using hair for more than two decades to clean up oil spills and other pollution from bodies of water. Its latest project is encouraging the growth of vegetation in the Presidio in San Francisco, a national park site."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-26/place-your-hair-mat-outdoors-the-bay-area-is-using-them-to-encourage-plant-growth-and-restore-beaches

#publichealth #hair #environment #oil #water #parks #compost

bicmay, 3 months ago to Hair

"Seeing any kind of body hair on a woman in film or TV has become a rarity, like seeing a unicorn or an actor with their original teeth. I’ve lost count of the number of stories set in dystopian landscapes where the heroines are without armpit hair or even an aura of peach fuzz on their legs. The same goes for historical stories. The problem extends to eyebrows."

https://www.pajiba.com/film_reviews/why-is-pop-culture-still-so-terrified-of-womens-body-hair.php

#beauty #hair #entertainment #gender #women

bicmay, 3 months ago to Texas

"A series of wildfires in the Panhandle, which first broke out Monday afternoon, have engulfed more than 1 million acres of land — an area larger than the state of Rhode Island – making it the largest fire in Texas history...Here’s more about what alerts have been issued, wildfire safety, what we know about damages, and how you may be able to help affected Texans."

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/29/texas-panhandle-wildfire-safety-how-to-help/

#texas #climate #environment #wildfires #publichealth

bicmay, 3 months ago to climate

"In the first few days after the hurricane, patients showed up with bad bruises from escaping floodwaters or trying to fix their houses. People came to the hospital who had lost their medications when power went out, or they couldn't refill prescriptions. Weeks later, people started showing up with breathing issues because mold had started to grow in their flooded homes."

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/29/1234671424/the-human-cost-of-climate-related-disasters-is-acutely-undercounted-new-study-sa

#naturaldisasters #disasterplanning #climate #environment #publichealth #medicare

bicmay, 3 months ago to Texas

"A Texas prosecutor has been disciplined for allowing murder charges to be filed against a woman who self-managed an abortion in a case that sparked national outrage.

Starr County District Attorney Gocha Ramirez agreed to pay a $1,250 fine and have his license held in a probated suspension for 12 months in a settlement reached with the State Bar of Texas..."

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-murder-charges-texas-prosecutor-fined-c7203d75f922663f38321b8a8d27bdde

#healthcare #reproductivejustice #pregnancy #abortion #texas