@tsmendola
@tsmendola.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine @ Hofstra & Asst. Program Director of the Division of Women's Health @ NSUH & @ LIJ. Scary abortion lady writing on sex, culture, power. Views are my own do not represent Northwell Health.
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· Oct 9
Happy #dafday! Did you know that our Division of Women’s Health on Emergency Medicine—the only one in the US!— is 100% reliant on your tax-deductible donations to further our mission to end gender-based care disparities in the ER? From miscarriage management to cardiac emergencies, we need you.
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October 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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ICYMI, @susanrinkunas.com got the lowdown on the @plancpills.bsky.social site redesign for @autonomynews.co.
One update I appreciate: A feature that tells people when they can get their abortion covered by Medicaid in their state, so hopefully fewer people will pay for pills they could get free.
One update I appreciate: A feature that tells people when they can get their abortion covered by Medicaid in their state, so hopefully fewer people will pay for pills they could get free.
Exclusive: Plan C Doubles Down on Abortion Pill Info Amid Political Attacks
The online abortion pill guide has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost.
www.autonomynews.co
October 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
ICYMI, @susanrinkunas.com got the lowdown on the @plancpills.bsky.social site redesign for @autonomynews.co.
One update I appreciate: A feature that tells people when they can get their abortion covered by Medicaid in their state, so hopefully fewer people will pay for pills they could get free.
One update I appreciate: A feature that tells people when they can get their abortion covered by Medicaid in their state, so hopefully fewer people will pay for pills they could get free.
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RIP, Diane. 😩
The First Wives Club - You Don't Own Me
YouTube video by WatchWithMati
youtu.be
October 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
RIP, Diane. 😩
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Hanging onto every bit of good news
The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.
This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.
lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...
The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.
This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.
lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...
One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife
lostcoastoutpost.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Hanging onto every bit of good news
The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.
This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.
lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...
The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.
This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.
lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...
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New from me on @autonomynews.co: The popular abortion pill resource Plan C relaunched this week with a new design that better displays the many, many options for medication abortion in all 50 states
The online abortion pill guide @plancpills.bsky.social has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost. The redesign comes as state officials have threatened investigations and potential lawsuits against the organization.
An Autonomy News exclusive:
An Autonomy News exclusive:
Exclusive: Plan C Doubles Down on Abortion Pill Info Amid Political Attacks
The online abortion pill guide has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost.
www.autonomynews.co
October 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
New from me on @autonomynews.co: The popular abortion pill resource Plan C relaunched this week with a new design that better displays the many, many options for medication abortion in all 50 states
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If you are able to, get out and join with others.
October 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
If you are able to, get out and join with others.
Happy #dafday! Did you know that our Division of Women’s Health on Emergency Medicine—the only one in the US!— is 100% reliant on your tax-deductible donations to further our mission to end gender-based care disparities in the ER? From miscarriage management to cardiac emergencies, we need you.
October 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Happy #dafday! Did you know that our Division of Women’s Health on Emergency Medicine—the only one in the US!— is 100% reliant on your tax-deductible donations to further our mission to end gender-based care disparities in the ER? From miscarriage management to cardiac emergencies, we need you.
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NEW: Planned Parenthood's Manhattan clinic will stop seeing patients as of November 1 as affiliate prepares to sell the building amid budget shortfalls. Sale announced in March
Patients told to schedule at Bronx, Brooklyn, or Queens (LIC) clinics or virtual
www.plannedparenthood.org/health-cente...
Patients told to schedule at Bronx, Brooklyn, or Queens (LIC) clinics or virtual
www.plannedparenthood.org/health-cente...
October 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NEW: Planned Parenthood's Manhattan clinic will stop seeing patients as of November 1 as affiliate prepares to sell the building amid budget shortfalls. Sale announced in March
Patients told to schedule at Bronx, Brooklyn, or Queens (LIC) clinics or virtual
www.plannedparenthood.org/health-cente...
Patients told to schedule at Bronx, Brooklyn, or Queens (LIC) clinics or virtual
www.plannedparenthood.org/health-cente...
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Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
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"In the 17-year period, the proportion of vaccinated women who tested positive for #HPV types covered by the later 4-valent vaccine..dropped 94.2%, and fell 75.7% for types covered by the current 9-valent vaccine"
#OncSky + #MedSky via @medpagetoday.com
www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...
#OncSky + #MedSky via @medpagetoday.com
www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...
HPV Shot May Protect Unvaccinated Women Too
'We have that potential to actually eliminate cervical cancer in our lifetimes, researcher says
www.medpagetoday.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"In the 17-year period, the proportion of vaccinated women who tested positive for #HPV types covered by the later 4-valent vaccine..dropped 94.2%, and fell 75.7% for types covered by the current 9-valent vaccine"
#OncSky + #MedSky via @medpagetoday.com
www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...
#OncSky + #MedSky via @medpagetoday.com
www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...
Cried reading this news. It feels like we are at an inflection point for gene therapy & previously incurable diseases. I do worry about disparities in access, but that's a solvable problem if we make it one.
September 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Cried reading this news. It feels like we are at an inflection point for gene therapy & previously incurable diseases. I do worry about disparities in access, but that's a solvable problem if we make it one.
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Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
September 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
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Two babies have died of Whooping cough in Louisiana, a vaccine preventable disease.
All pregnant patients and their families should be vaccinated to protect the newborn.
This is Louisiana's worst Whooping cough (pertussis) outbreak in 30 years. buff.ly/pez25q3
#medsky #pedsky🛟😷
All pregnant patients and their families should be vaccinated to protect the newborn.
This is Louisiana's worst Whooping cough (pertussis) outbreak in 30 years. buff.ly/pez25q3
#medsky #pedsky🛟😷
September 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Two babies have died of Whooping cough in Louisiana, a vaccine preventable disease.
All pregnant patients and their families should be vaccinated to protect the newborn.
This is Louisiana's worst Whooping cough (pertussis) outbreak in 30 years. buff.ly/pez25q3
#medsky #pedsky🛟😷
All pregnant patients and their families should be vaccinated to protect the newborn.
This is Louisiana's worst Whooping cough (pertussis) outbreak in 30 years. buff.ly/pez25q3
#medsky #pedsky🛟😷
It’s all the same playbook.
Soooooo they're applying abortion counselling strategies to vaccinations???
September 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
It’s all the same playbook.
This is a horrifying new trend.
Great article in The Cut on designer prenatal vitamins and how companies are making bank by influencers peddling unproven folate www.thecut.com/article/fola...
Your Prenatal Vitamin Might Be Missing an Essential Ingredient
Trendy brands are selling supplements that are missing the one ingredient shown to prevent major birth defects.
www.thecut.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is a horrifying new trend.
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It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know.
Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/
Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/
September 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know.
Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/
Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/
I confess myself pleasantly surprised.
AMA representative is tearing the current ACIP a new one, suggesting they are biased and cherry-picking data.
September 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I confess myself pleasantly surprised.
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It needs to be understood that every incremental step that RFK Jr. and ACIP take to create barriers against vaccination means that fewer and fewer people have access to lifesaving vaccines…until no one can access them at all.
This is their plan and their desire. Don’t kid yourself.
This is their plan and their desire. Don’t kid yourself.
September 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
It needs to be understood that every incremental step that RFK Jr. and ACIP take to create barriers against vaccination means that fewer and fewer people have access to lifesaving vaccines…until no one can access them at all.
This is their plan and their desire. Don’t kid yourself.
This is their plan and their desire. Don’t kid yourself.
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I just learned about the new US Measles Tracker from
@johnshopkinssph.bsky.social and @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social.
#medsky #IDsky #episky 🛟😷
@johnshopkinssph.bsky.social and @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social.
#medsky #IDsky #episky 🛟😷
September 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I just learned about the new US Measles Tracker from
@johnshopkinssph.bsky.social and @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social.
#medsky #IDsky #episky 🛟😷
@johnshopkinssph.bsky.social and @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social.
#medsky #IDsky #episky 🛟😷
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The decimation of public media in the U.S. begins here, in central Pennsylvania, with the closing of WPSU, Penn State’s NPR and PBS affiliate.
web.archive.org/web/20250917...
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‘Never would have imagined it’: Pennsylvania NPR station set to be first to shutter following Trump’s cuts
WPSU, which has been broadcasting out of Penn State since 1953, will shut down following federal cuts to public media organizations
web.archive.org
September 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The decimation of public media in the U.S. begins here, in central Pennsylvania, with the closing of WPSU, Penn State’s NPR and PBS affiliate.
web.archive.org/web/20250917...
web.archive.org/web/20250917...
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State & local officials are pulling back on fluoridation in MI, FL & elsewhere, even though it is the most cost effective method to prevent tooth decay, especially for vast numbers of people in the US without insurance or access to a dentist. / by @annaleighclark.bsky.social
Amid Rise of RFK Jr., Officials Waver on Drinking Water Fluoridation — Even in the State Where It Started
As federal agencies review their guidance on fluoridation and the nation’s top health official calls fluoride “industrial waste,” state and local governments are pulling back on the practice, upending...
www.propublica.org
September 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
State & local officials are pulling back on fluoridation in MI, FL & elsewhere, even though it is the most cost effective method to prevent tooth decay, especially for vast numbers of people in the US without insurance or access to a dentist. / by @annaleighclark.bsky.social
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I'm watching the ACIP meeting. #Follow along for updates.
The committee will vote on whether to delay the hepatitis B vaccine for babies and whether to give the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) and chickenpox vaccines separately.
The committee will vote on whether to delay the hepatitis B vaccine for babies and whether to give the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) and chickenpox vaccines separately.
The meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is starting now. They will vote on delaying the hepatitis B vaccine (now given at birth) until baby is 1 month old, as long as mom tests negative. www.youtube.com/live/-6uBNXs...
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) - September 18, 2025 - Day 1 of 2
YouTube video by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
www.youtube.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I'm watching the ACIP meeting. #Follow along for updates.
The committee will vote on whether to delay the hepatitis B vaccine for babies and whether to give the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) and chickenpox vaccines separately.
The committee will vote on whether to delay the hepatitis B vaccine for babies and whether to give the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) and chickenpox vaccines separately.
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There's SO MUCH going on that I'm sure this news will get lost, but: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law a first-of-its-kind bill that lets private citizens to sue abortion providers who ship pills into the state.
Providers basically told me: Bring it on.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Providers basically told me: Bring it on.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Abortion pill providers targeted by new Texas law refuse ‘anticipatory obedience’
Greg Abbott’s latest move fuels clash between US red states and blue-state shield laws protecting abortion care
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
There's SO MUCH going on that I'm sure this news will get lost, but: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law a first-of-its-kind bill that lets private citizens to sue abortion providers who ship pills into the state.
Providers basically told me: Bring it on.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Providers basically told me: Bring it on.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Bridging the gap between the outpatient, indie abortion clinic ecosystem & the hospital ecosystem in this moment is so crucial. If you’re speaking from inside an institution, please, I am begging you, bring in folks from abortion funds, indie clinics, and community care networks to speak & connect.
September 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Bridging the gap between the outpatient, indie abortion clinic ecosystem & the hospital ecosystem in this moment is so crucial. If you’re speaking from inside an institution, please, I am begging you, bring in folks from abortion funds, indie clinics, and community care networks to speak & connect.