MK Hayward
@mkhayward.bsky.social
MSN, RN, FNP-BC
Science, clean air & primary care for all
*Family Medicine*Adolescent Medicine*Maternal Health & Well-Being*
Vaccine Fan-girl
I testified to Congress about identity protection! (You can take the girl out of DC, but…)
Science, clean air & primary care for all
*Family Medicine*Adolescent Medicine*Maternal Health & Well-Being*
Vaccine Fan-girl
I testified to Congress about identity protection! (You can take the girl out of DC, but…)
This.
Feed the People: No One Should Go Hungry — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Dr. Grace Bagwell Adams is a public health expert, professor, and mother. She submitted this essay to The Bitter Southerner as a righteous call to anger — a professional and personal take on one of th...
bittersoutherner.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
This.
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This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.
interestingengineering.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
Also love postpartum care visits!! Mothers should not be waiting 6 weeks for an insurance-covered health assessment!
September 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Also love postpartum care visits!! Mothers should not be waiting 6 weeks for an insurance-covered health assessment!
Pennsylvania pharmacists can now resume administering COVID vaccines without a prescription thanks to quick action by the pharmacy board. www.pa.gov/governor/new...
ICYMI: PA State Board of Pharmacy Acts Gov Shapiro Protect Vaccine Access
ICYMI: PA State Board of Pharmacy Acts Gov Shapiro Protect Vaccine Access
www.pa.gov
September 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Pennsylvania pharmacists can now resume administering COVID vaccines without a prescription thanks to quick action by the pharmacy board. www.pa.gov/governor/new...
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We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector
As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...
defector.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
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“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”
July 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”
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Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system:
The Tetanus vaccine
The Measles vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine
- @hislopmd.bsky.social
The Tetanus vaccine
The Measles vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine
- @hislopmd.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system:
The Tetanus vaccine
The Measles vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine
- @hislopmd.bsky.social
The Tetanus vaccine
The Measles vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine
- @hislopmd.bsky.social
"The belief that we have a responsibility to others isn’t shortsighted sentimentalism; it’s the moral foundation of a meaningful life." -Craig Spencer
Opinion | You Don’t Have to Be a Doctor to Understand This
www.nytimes.com
July 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"The belief that we have a responsibility to others isn’t shortsighted sentimentalism; it’s the moral foundation of a meaningful life." -Craig Spencer
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Tsai-Fan Yu was a renowned Chinese-American medical doctor whose pioneering research helped make gout a curable disease, linked gout to hypertension and diabetes, and established one of the first systematised lab tests for diagnosing rheumatoid arthritis.
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May 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Tsai-Fan Yu was a renowned Chinese-American medical doctor whose pioneering research helped make gout a curable disease, linked gout to hypertension and diabetes, and established one of the first systematised lab tests for diagnosing rheumatoid arthritis.
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“Losing rights doesn’t happen in one big, dramatic moment. It happens in a slow drip of bad policies, restrictive laws and people not taking the threat seriously until it’s too late.”
Married women could face new obstacles to vote. This is what conservatives want. | Opinion
Remember when people told us we were crazy for saying Roe could be overturned?
Now we have a bill that could make voting harder for millions of women
www.jsonline.com
February 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
“Losing rights doesn’t happen in one big, dramatic moment. It happens in a slow drip of bad policies, restrictive laws and people not taking the threat seriously until it’s too late.”
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People, it's like champagne.
If it's from Philadelphia, it is the Brotherly Shove.
Everyone else is a sparkling Tush Push
If it's from Philadelphia, it is the Brotherly Shove.
Everyone else is a sparkling Tush Push
February 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
People, it's like champagne.
If it's from Philadelphia, it is the Brotherly Shove.
Everyone else is a sparkling Tush Push
If it's from Philadelphia, it is the Brotherly Shove.
Everyone else is a sparkling Tush Push
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I’m so tired of being labeled dramatic for trying to explain that even a brief pause or uncertainty in NIH activity can have decades of consequences. Or, a lifetime for those scientists existing in the wrong moment in time.
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
January 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I’m so tired of being labeled dramatic for trying to explain that even a brief pause or uncertainty in NIH activity can have decades of consequences. Or, a lifetime for those scientists existing in the wrong moment in time.
We should absolutely have to opt-in to AI use. I hate that to search reviews on Amazon, some computer server is depleting so much energy bc of the automatic AI response I don’t even want. We should all be clicking “yes, my AI request/question is really worth all this environmental impact”
I think the environmental burden and cost of the AI revolution is one of the most under-discussed topics currently. Normalizing its use for mundane daily tasks of a broad scale will have a toll we are wholly unprepared to fully confront or address.
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
January 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
We should absolutely have to opt-in to AI use. I hate that to search reviews on Amazon, some computer server is depleting so much energy bc of the automatic AI response I don’t even want. We should all be clicking “yes, my AI request/question is really worth all this environmental impact”
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#MedSky #IDSky
Importantly (& a huge inconvenience), #norovirus IS NOT DESTROYED BY HAND SANITIZER. YOU MUST WASH YOUR HANDS with soap & water for a min of 20 secs.
It can survive freezing for months as well as heat up to 145F (the max temp of many home dishwashers 😖), so what do you do? /4
Importantly (& a huge inconvenience), #norovirus IS NOT DESTROYED BY HAND SANITIZER. YOU MUST WASH YOUR HANDS with soap & water for a min of 20 secs.
It can survive freezing for months as well as heat up to 145F (the max temp of many home dishwashers 😖), so what do you do? /4
a cartoon character holding a clock that says 20 seconds on it
ALT: a cartoon character holding a clock that says 20 seconds on it
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January 5, 2025 at 1:38 AM
#MedSky #IDSky
Importantly (& a huge inconvenience), #norovirus IS NOT DESTROYED BY HAND SANITIZER. YOU MUST WASH YOUR HANDS with soap & water for a min of 20 secs.
It can survive freezing for months as well as heat up to 145F (the max temp of many home dishwashers 😖), so what do you do? /4
Importantly (& a huge inconvenience), #norovirus IS NOT DESTROYED BY HAND SANITIZER. YOU MUST WASH YOUR HANDS with soap & water for a min of 20 secs.
It can survive freezing for months as well as heat up to 145F (the max temp of many home dishwashers 😖), so what do you do? /4
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My Son's Birth Was Nearly Perfect, But Days Later I Almost Died. These Are The Symptoms You Should Never Ignore.
Author Christina McDowell shares her harrowing first-person account of experiencing severe postpartum preeclampsia
Author Christina McDowell shares her harrowing first-person account of experiencing severe postpartum preeclampsia
My Son's Birth Was Nearly Perfect, But Days Later I Almost Died. These Are The Symptoms You Should Never Ignore.
"I picked up my phone 10 minutes later to two missed calls and a voicemail from my OBGYN telling me to go to the hospital immediately."
www.huffpost.com
December 31, 2024 at 1:09 PM
My Son's Birth Was Nearly Perfect, But Days Later I Almost Died. These Are The Symptoms You Should Never Ignore.
Author Christina McDowell shares her harrowing first-person account of experiencing severe postpartum preeclampsia
Author Christina McDowell shares her harrowing first-person account of experiencing severe postpartum preeclampsia
@senatorshoshana.bsky.social I testified to Congress in May ‘23 on the topic of SSA child identity protections. Bipartisan bills are past the house and in senate finance ready to go NOW!
Child Identity Theft Is a Huge Problem. The Solutions Are Simple.
The Social Security Administration and the IRS just need to do their jobs.
thedispatch.com
December 16, 2024 at 1:09 PM
@senatorshoshana.bsky.social I testified to Congress in May ‘23 on the topic of SSA child identity protections. Bipartisan bills are past the house and in senate finance ready to go NOW!
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Cannot overstate this. KEEP KIDS AWAY FROM HIGH POWERED MAGNETS.
When I was in residency one of my patients during my pediatric rotation was a 4 year old boy who swallowed these magnets thinking they were candy & they formed fistulas in his small intestine. #Medsky #Pedsky
When I was in residency one of my patients during my pediatric rotation was a 4 year old boy who swallowed these magnets thinking they were candy & they formed fistulas in his small intestine. #Medsky #Pedsky
December 10, 2024 at 3:20 AM
This amazing woman gave my community some words when we had none and the world was watching. Rest in Peace, Professor Giovanni, and thank you for everything ❤️
"We will forever be grateful for the unconditional time she gave to us, to all her literary children across the writerly world," said Kwame Alexander in the statement on the renowned Nikki Giovanni’s death
Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81
The poet and activist was a leading figure of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni was working on her upcoming book of poetry, set to publish in the fall.
www.npr.org
December 10, 2024 at 6:39 AM
This amazing woman gave my community some words when we had none and the world was watching. Rest in Peace, Professor Giovanni, and thank you for everything ❤️
So proud to have worked at the NIH 🥰 everyone I worked with was unbelievably smart and laser focused on helping patients and moving the ball forward.
“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.”
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
Research supported by NIH has led more than 100 Nobel Prizes and has supported more than 99% of drugs approved by federal regulators from 2010 to 2019.
But come January, NIH may face a wrecking ball
nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...
But come January, NIH may face a wrecking ball
nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...
December 2, 2024 at 2:10 AM
So proud to have worked at the NIH 🥰 everyone I worked with was unbelievably smart and laser focused on helping patients and moving the ball forward.
Misinformation and vaccine hesitancy have lethal consequences. We can’t afford 4 years moving backward.
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(Screenshot Typo: 5,700 cases)
Repost with added alt text from @joho.bsky.social
(Screenshot Typo: 5,700 cases)
November 28, 2024 at 3:34 AM
Misinformation and vaccine hesitancy have lethal consequences. We can’t afford 4 years moving backward.
Repost with added alt text from @joho.bsky.social
(Screenshot Typo: 5,700 cases)
Repost with added alt text from @joho.bsky.social
(Screenshot Typo: 5,700 cases)
I’ve been checking ferritin whenever I can (it’s often expensive!) in young adults who menstruate and usually half of them have ferritin <30ng/ml and feel so much better with a few months iron supplementation.
Our study found that nearly 40% (!) of 12-21 yo females are iron deficient.
tinyurl.com/FeJAMA
But did you know that in addition to many physical symptoms, iron deficiency is associated with multiple mental health issues?
A #medsky #bluetorial 🧵1/
tinyurl.com/FeJAMA
But did you know that in addition to many physical symptoms, iron deficiency is associated with multiple mental health issues?
A #medsky #bluetorial 🧵1/
Prevalence of Iron Deficiency and Iron-Deficiency Anemia in US Females Aged 12-21 Years, 2003-2020
This study examines prevalence of iron deficiency among females aged 12 to 21 years to inform future screening strategies for iron deficiency and iron-deficiency anemia.
tinyurl.com
November 25, 2024 at 4:25 PM
I’ve been checking ferritin whenever I can (it’s often expensive!) in young adults who menstruate and usually half of them have ferritin <30ng/ml and feel so much better with a few months iron supplementation.
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This is one of the most important skills that we really under-emphasize. Bag mask ventilation, yes - you can bag your way out of a lot of crises - but the most important skill here is what you describe: calming yourself down so you're not ventilating at 500ml+ x 30 breaths/min.
Signed, an RT.
Signed, an RT.
November 21, 2024 at 6:00 PM
This is one of the most important skills that we really under-emphasize. Bag mask ventilation, yes - you can bag your way out of a lot of crises - but the most important skill here is what you describe: calming yourself down so you're not ventilating at 500ml+ x 30 breaths/min.
Signed, an RT.
Signed, an RT.
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Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.
We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
November 19, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.
We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
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Measles requires 95% vaccination rates for herd immunity.
It has a 16.2% case fatality rate for unvaccinated children under 5 years and 24% for children under 9 months (who are unable to be vaccinated).
30% of the survivors experience severe complications like blindness, deafness, or encephalitis.
It has a 16.2% case fatality rate for unvaccinated children under 5 years and 24% for children under 9 months (who are unable to be vaccinated).
30% of the survivors experience severe complications like blindness, deafness, or encephalitis.
These are the vaccination rates of kindergartners by state. It takes 95% coverage of MMR vaccine to prevent measles outbreaks & most states are not achieving it. I fear that under the new administration rates will drop even further and we will start to see preventable illness, disability, and death
November 16, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Measles requires 95% vaccination rates for herd immunity.
It has a 16.2% case fatality rate for unvaccinated children under 5 years and 24% for children under 9 months (who are unable to be vaccinated).
30% of the survivors experience severe complications like blindness, deafness, or encephalitis.
It has a 16.2% case fatality rate for unvaccinated children under 5 years and 24% for children under 9 months (who are unable to be vaccinated).
30% of the survivors experience severe complications like blindness, deafness, or encephalitis.