Liza
@lizahope.bsky.social
MFM by training. Diagnostics professional by second career. Advocate for social justice and equal rights by passion. Abortion is healthcare. Trans rights are human rights.
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Don’t know who needs to hear this, but it if you’ve got an account with 23&me it is likely time to delete it. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers
Californians have the right to direct the company to delete their genetic data OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert to customers of 23andMe, a genetic testing ...
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March 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Don’t know who needs to hear this, but it if you’ve got an account with 23&me it is likely time to delete it. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
Doctor and Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge’s Order www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...
Brown University Professor and Doctor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Doctor and Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge’s Order www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...
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Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.
James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died
Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.
www.npr.org
March 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.
Over 1300 CDC employees, including the entire Epidemic Intelligence Service were fired without cause on Friday.
At the same time, we are in the midst of an uncontrolled nationwide outbreak of H5N1.
There is currently a measles outbreak in Texas & NM (1/3)
#medsky #publichealthsky
#obgynsky
At the same time, we are in the midst of an uncontrolled nationwide outbreak of H5N1.
There is currently a measles outbreak in Texas & NM (1/3)
#medsky #publichealthsky
#obgynsky
February 18, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Over 1300 CDC employees, including the entire Epidemic Intelligence Service were fired without cause on Friday.
At the same time, we are in the midst of an uncontrolled nationwide outbreak of H5N1.
There is currently a measles outbreak in Texas & NM (1/3)
#medsky #publichealthsky
#obgynsky
At the same time, we are in the midst of an uncontrolled nationwide outbreak of H5N1.
There is currently a measles outbreak in Texas & NM (1/3)
#medsky #publichealthsky
#obgynsky
We can’t give up hope. We have to fight for what we believe in. 🏳️⚧️🚺🧬🥼🏞️
I wrote a thing about what Musk and Trump are doing to the country. Their strategy is to overwhelm us, to panic us, to cause us to give up. If we don't give them that, they're in a world of hurt, because they are breaking their own tools. Read here:
medium.com/@rmehlinger/...
medium.com/@rmehlinger/...
It’s not over yet
We are less than a month into the Trump administration, and let’s be honest: it sucks. It sucks considerably worse than even I was…
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February 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
We can’t give up hope. We have to fight for what we believe in. 🏳️⚧️🚺🧬🥼🏞️
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When I say gender-affirming care is life-saving, it is literal. It is not hyperbole.
My heart goes out to families and friends who have experienced such indescribable pain.
Protect trans kids.
Love trans kids.
Gender is a spectrum, like the colors of the rainbow.
🏳️⚧️💖🏳️⚧️💖🇺🇸💪🏻🇺🇸💪🏻
My heart goes out to families and friends who have experienced such indescribable pain.
Protect trans kids.
Love trans kids.
Gender is a spectrum, like the colors of the rainbow.
🏳️⚧️💖🏳️⚧️💖🇺🇸💪🏻🇺🇸💪🏻
In a new lawsuit filed against Trump by state AGs, a family with a trans kid shares she died by suicide last month citing fears Trump would deny her access to gender-affirming care. "Her parents have expressed fear...that what happened to their daughter does not happen to other children."
![The serious concerns over how the Order will detrimentally impact transgender
youth cannot be overstated. One Washingtonian, as her parents describe her, was a bright and
gentle soul who loved playing musical instruments, trying new things, and playing Magic the
Gathering. She was excited to learn Japanese and the impact of gender-affirming care was
immediately clear to her family. Her parents described that “her joy was clear with every new
milestone in her transition. She was so happy to get to the next step, to get closer to presenting
in a way that was true to herself.” But the day before the presidential election, she shared,
“[t]omorrow I get to find out if I’m illegal.” After the election, she asked her parents if they
could move to Canada because she was fearful of new restrictions on transgender youth and
worried about losing access to gender-affirming care. In January 2025, she took her life. After
the Order issued, her parents expressed that the outlook for transgender futures looks scary and
shared fears of what ending gender-affirming care would have meant for their daughter’s access
to therapy, puberty-delaying medication, hormones, and hope of surgery. Her parents have
expressed fear for the many lives who depend on gender-affirming care and that what happened
to their daughter does not happen to any other children.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mlmouohgzbjofidukcp4pxf2/bafkreich7jyv3lnkmd5r234itpdhtvavgblc46ai6d47tb4i7oxgfga2ym@jpeg)
February 13, 2025 at 5:49 AM
When I say gender-affirming care is life-saving, it is literal. It is not hyperbole.
My heart goes out to families and friends who have experienced such indescribable pain.
Protect trans kids.
Love trans kids.
Gender is a spectrum, like the colors of the rainbow.
🏳️⚧️💖🏳️⚧️💖🇺🇸💪🏻🇺🇸💪🏻
My heart goes out to families and friends who have experienced such indescribable pain.
Protect trans kids.
Love trans kids.
Gender is a spectrum, like the colors of the rainbow.
🏳️⚧️💖🏳️⚧️💖🇺🇸💪🏻🇺🇸💪🏻
C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
Nothing to see here 🤦🏻♀️
#medsky #publichealth #avianflu
Nothing to see here 🤦🏻♀️
#medsky #publichealth #avianflu
CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Transmission Between Cats and People
The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
Nothing to see here 🤦🏻♀️
#medsky #publichealth #avianflu
Nothing to see here 🤦🏻♀️
#medsky #publichealth #avianflu
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Trump & Musk are making massive cuts to the National Institutes of Health.
I know there is a lot going on right now, but this is one of worst things they have done so far, will affect cancer research and trials, the search for cures, innovation and competitiveness, our universities. Your lives.
I know there is a lot going on right now, but this is one of worst things they have done so far, will affect cancer research and trials, the search for cures, innovation and competitiveness, our universities. Your lives.
February 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Trump & Musk are making massive cuts to the National Institutes of Health.
I know there is a lot going on right now, but this is one of worst things they have done so far, will affect cancer research and trials, the search for cures, innovation and competitiveness, our universities. Your lives.
I know there is a lot going on right now, but this is one of worst things they have done so far, will affect cancer research and trials, the search for cures, innovation and competitiveness, our universities. Your lives.
Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher” than “white women around the time of childbirth in 2023.
This is why research into disparities matters. Don’t censor the CDC
www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/he...
#blacklivesmatter #obgynsky #medsky
This is why research into disparities matters. Don’t censor the CDC
www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/he...
#blacklivesmatter #obgynsky #medsky
www.cdc.gov
February 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher” than “white women around the time of childbirth in 2023.
This is why research into disparities matters. Don’t censor the CDC
www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/he...
#blacklivesmatter #obgynsky #medsky
This is why research into disparities matters. Don’t censor the CDC
www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/he...
#blacklivesmatter #obgynsky #medsky
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These actions by Trump and his administration are reckless and dangerous.
Abortion patients and providers deserve better.
Abortion patients and providers deserve better.
February 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
These actions by Trump and his administration are reckless and dangerous.
Abortion patients and providers deserve better.
Abortion patients and providers deserve better.
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Obstetrics & Gynecology journals have existing language guidelines, including with regards to gender.
These should not change to accommodate the CDC, NIH, federal government etc
If papers are then not published then papers are not published, but this is not the time for accommodation
#MedHub
These should not change to accommodate the CDC, NIH, federal government etc
If papers are then not published then papers are not published, but this is not the time for accommodation
#MedHub
February 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Obstetrics & Gynecology journals have existing language guidelines, including with regards to gender.
These should not change to accommodate the CDC, NIH, federal government etc
If papers are then not published then papers are not published, but this is not the time for accommodation
#MedHub
These should not change to accommodate the CDC, NIH, federal government etc
If papers are then not published then papers are not published, but this is not the time for accommodation
#MedHub
“Scientific data is not political and must not be treated as such. Cloaking of information damages health care decisions and stifles future innovations and medical developments, leading to long-term consequences for our patients” @acog-org.bsky.social #obgynsky #medsky
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www.acog.org/news/news-re...
ACOG Urges Uncensored Access to Scientific Research and Clinical Data
ACOG highlights the need to protect access to scientific research and evidence-based data. This statement urges policymakers to support medical research, promote the free flow of information, and keep...
www.acog.org
February 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“Scientific data is not political and must not be treated as such. Cloaking of information damages health care decisions and stifles future innovations and medical developments, leading to long-term consequences for our patients” @acog-org.bsky.social #obgynsky #medsky
www.acog.org/news/news-re...
www.acog.org/news/news-re...
✨PLEASE SHARE! CDC GUIDELINE ARCHIVES✨
▶️STI GUIDELINES
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▶️Medical Eligibility Criteria (MEC) for Contraceptives buff.ly/3PZzQNf
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▶️VACCINE VIS buff.ly/4jJ1603
▶️Others from @jessicavalenti.bsky.social
LGBTQ CDCGuidelines.com
#medsky #pedsky #IDsky 🛟🧪
▶️STI GUIDELINES
buff.ly/4jReLT4
buff.ly/3EmjR9B
▶️Medical Eligibility Criteria (MEC) for Contraceptives buff.ly/3PZzQNf
buff.ly/4aKMEko
▶️VACCINE VIS buff.ly/4jJ1603
▶️Others from @jessicavalenti.bsky.social
LGBTQ CDCGuidelines.com
#medsky #pedsky #IDsky 🛟🧪
February 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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This week was chock full of democracy jump scares, so we’re making sure no abortion news slips through the cracks. ICYMI!
🔺 100 CHILDREN had to leave Texas to get abortion care- a stat so appalling even Fox had to clutch its pearls https://bit.ly/3EjVHwk
🔺 100 CHILDREN had to leave Texas to get abortion care- a stat so appalling even Fox had to clutch its pearls https://bit.ly/3EjVHwk
Dozens of minors – including children under 11 – left Texas for abortions in 2023
Texas’ abortion ban does not include exceptions for rape or incest.
bit.ly
February 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This week was chock full of democracy jump scares, so we’re making sure no abortion news slips through the cracks. ICYMI!
🔺 100 CHILDREN had to leave Texas to get abortion care- a stat so appalling even Fox had to clutch its pearls https://bit.ly/3EjVHwk
🔺 100 CHILDREN had to leave Texas to get abortion care- a stat so appalling even Fox had to clutch its pearls https://bit.ly/3EjVHwk
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They stripped the CDC’s website of info pages for contraception 👀
January 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
They stripped the CDC’s website of info pages for contraception 👀
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PLEASE SHARE WIDELY #medsky #IDsky #obgynsky #pedsky
CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇
web.archive.org/web/20250131...
CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇
web.archive.org/web/20250131...
Site Index
STIs are common. Many are curable - all are preventable.
web.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY #medsky #IDsky #obgynsky #pedsky
CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇
web.archive.org/web/20250131...
CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇
web.archive.org/web/20250131...
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SOS researchers: download what you can from publicly available health datasets now.
January 31, 2025 at 9:39 PM
SOS researchers: download what you can from publicly available health datasets now.
Multi-organization letter, including AAP & the American College of OB/GYN, opposing withdrawal from the World Health Organization
#MedSky
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#MedSky
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Statement from Leading Physician Groups on Announcement to Withdraw U.S. from the World Health Organization
The recent announcement to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO) will limit our ability to collaborate and coordinate on public health issues that impact individuals and ...
www.aap.org
January 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Louder for the repro rights peeps in the back: These assaults on trans healthcare and abortion care are the same fight! The Venn diagram of attacks on trans rights and abortion is a full-ass circle. They’re always after a 2-for-1 when it comes to eviscerating bodily autonomy. https://buff.ly/3PYLA2F
GLAAD says Trump’s ‘obsession’ with anti-trans executive orders ‘comes at a cost for every American’
GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) has warned that President Donald Trump’s “obsession” with implementing anti-trans executive orders will “come at a cost for every American”. In just…
www.msn.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Louder for the repro rights peeps in the back: These assaults on trans healthcare and abortion care are the same fight! The Venn diagram of attacks on trans rights and abortion is a full-ass circle. They’re always after a 2-for-1 when it comes to eviscerating bodily autonomy. https://buff.ly/3PYLA2F
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Get your IUD or permanent contraception now. If you’re worried about pain from IUD insertion find a physician who offers moderate sedation or at least nitrous oxide
"A ruling for the plaintiffs could mean employers and insurers reimposing copays and deductibles, or denying birth control coverage entirely, with patients on the hook for the full price." -- @susanrinkunas.com
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The Supreme Court Could Gut Access to Birth Control This Year
Opinion | With Trump back in the Oval Office, access to contraception is, sadly, not something that people can bank on anymore.
www.democracydocket.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Get your IUD or permanent contraception now. If you’re worried about pain from IUD insertion find a physician who offers moderate sedation or at least nitrous oxide
I certainly don’t want or need to know the immigration status of my patients. The most fundamental tenet of medicine: First do no harm. #resist #medsky
It’s started: ICE raided a Chicago-area hospital emergency department today and showed up at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan last week. Share this with any health workers you know. We must know how to respond when ICE comes for our patients and coworkers.
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The Hippocratic Oath May Require Doctors to Disobey Trump
Donald Trump's ICE raids on hospitals endanger immigrants and attack the ethical foundations of medicine. Health workers' fundamental duty is to patients, not the law, and they must resist policies th...
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January 27, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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I am holding on tightly to these words because this week has felt like a year.
The moment demands the wisdom of ancestors.
The moment demands the wisdom of ancestors.
January 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I am holding on tightly to these words because this week has felt like a year.
The moment demands the wisdom of ancestors.
The moment demands the wisdom of ancestors.
Angel Island was not that long ago.
January 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Angel Island was not that long ago.