zoe cunniffe
@zoecunniffe.bsky.social
health writer
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I've thought a lot about whether new products/technologies for women's health are actually addressing health inequities or if they're just the latest way of exploiting women, and this article does a great job of laying out that issue
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
‘Femtech’ takes on the women’s health-care marketplace
A fast-growing industry offers high-tech solutions for feminine health problems. Its many female founders say they’re tackling the age-old equity gap in health care.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I've thought a lot about whether new products/technologies for women's health are actually addressing health inequities or if they're just the latest way of exploiting women, and this article does a great job of laying out that issue
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
great piece on how hospitals are financially discouraged from performing procedures on female patients—and horrifying how deeply medical sexism is baked into the system
www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2025...
www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2025...
Reimbursement inequities lead to hospitals deprioritizing women’s healthcare, experts tell Congress
Even if they’re essentially the same procedure.
www.healthcare-brew.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
great piece on how hospitals are financially discouraged from performing procedures on female patients—and horrifying how deeply medical sexism is baked into the system
www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2025...
www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2025...
really good explanation of the dangerous ways cuts to US research are reshaping science
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/b...
Trump vs. Science
We explain the administration’s cuts to research.
www.nytimes.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
really good explanation of the dangerous ways cuts to US research are reshaping science
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/b...
really interesting exploration of our memories and their often underappreciated value
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
What Do You Remember?
The more you explore your own past, the more you find there.
www.newyorker.com
April 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
really interesting exploration of our memories and their often underappreciated value
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
really striking illustration of how horrible it is to navigate the US healthcare system with Long Covid
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care
Access to clinics has only gotten patchier as attention to the disease has faded.
www.theatlantic.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
really striking illustration of how horrible it is to navigate the US healthcare system with Long Covid
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
fascinating piece on the biases built into medical systems that apply the same standards to every patient
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Medical Benchmarks and the Myth of the Universal Patient
From growth charts to anemia thresholds, clinical standards assume a single human prototype. Why are we still using one-size-fits-all health metrics?
www.newyorker.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
fascinating piece on the biases built into medical systems that apply the same standards to every patient
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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congrats to Disease, having a huge year
Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally (New York Times)
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March 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
congrats to Disease, having a huge year
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As I've said, Trump officials suggest it's no big deal to reduce access to health care since it's mostly other things that are making Americans sick, like toxic chemicals. But they're allowing more toxic chemicals too bsky.app/profile/cram...
The GOP is laying the groundwork to cut federal health spending by arguing that access to medical care doesn’t make you sick — other societal ills do. Poor nutrition, neurotoxins, etc.
Unfortunately, the rest of the GOP agenda will make those other problems worse, too.
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Unfortunately, the rest of the GOP agenda will make those other problems worse, too.
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Opinion | Society is making you sick, GOP says. Too bad their plans will make you sicker.
“Make America Healthy Again” might be a laudable plan — if GOP policies didn’t contradict GOP goals.
wapo.st
March 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
As I've said, Trump officials suggest it's no big deal to reduce access to health care since it's mostly other things that are making Americans sick, like toxic chemicals. But they're allowing more toxic chemicals too bsky.app/profile/cram...
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Is Global Mental Health Missing the Point? Ethiopian Voices Challenge Western Models
Interviews with people diagnosed with depression in Ethiopia raise concerns about Western mental health interventions.
By Richard Sears
Interviews with people diagnosed with depression in Ethiopia raise concerns about Western mental health interventions.
By Richard Sears
Is Global Mental Health Missing the Point? Ethiopian Voices Challenge Western Models
Interviews with people diagnosed with depression in Ethiopia highlight how social, economic, and cultural struggles shape psychological suffering, raising concerns about Western mental health…
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March 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Is Global Mental Health Missing the Point? Ethiopian Voices Challenge Western Models
Interviews with people diagnosed with depression in Ethiopia raise concerns about Western mental health interventions.
By Richard Sears
Interviews with people diagnosed with depression in Ethiopia raise concerns about Western mental health interventions.
By Richard Sears
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I wrote about Gavin Newsom, who sucks newrepublic.com/article/1924...
Gavin Newsom Is the Worst
The former #Resistance darling has no problem politically sacrificing the most vulnerable Americans, like trans high schoolers, for the sake of his White House dreams.
newrepublic.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I wrote about Gavin Newsom, who sucks newrepublic.com/article/1924...
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I hate that wellness got co-opted by the right because there really is a good conversation to have about our food systems and what goes into foods that could be harming us, but instead of passing regulations on food companies like other countries it’s going to be “you can’t buy snacks with SNAP”
February 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I hate that wellness got co-opted by the right because there really is a good conversation to have about our food systems and what goes into foods that could be harming us, but instead of passing regulations on food companies like other countries it’s going to be “you can’t buy snacks with SNAP”
When Other People's Chewing Causes You Pain
Social relationships might shape a neurological disorder
nautil.us
February 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
timing the events of an elementary class down to the second is just dystopian... what exactly are we trying to prepare kids for?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
Is Micromanaging Teachers a Recipe for School Success?
A new superintendent is trying to improve Houston’s public schools through strictly structured teaching. The district says it’s working. Many educators and parents hate it.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
timing the events of an elementary class down to the second is just dystopian... what exactly are we trying to prepare kids for?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
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Well this aged well from a week ago
January 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Well this aged well from a week ago
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To help people understand the importance of NIH, share what you’ve used their funding for (in easily understandable terms).
I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
January 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
To help people understand the importance of NIH, share what you’ve used their funding for (in easily understandable terms).
I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
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The scrubbing could affect the ways researchers and companies test drugs and medical devices
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...
FDA purges material on clinical trial diversity from its site, showing stakes of Trump DEI ban
Following the Trump administration's DEI ban, the FDA's move to scrub webpages has ensnared many pages focused on ensuring diversity in drug trials.
www.statnews.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The scrubbing could affect the ways researchers and companies test drugs and medical devices
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...
Amazing piece on chronic pain and the complications of treating it, living with it, getting people to even see it as real
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/m...
Chronic Pain Is a Hidden Epidemic. It’s Time for a Revolution.
As many as two billion people suffer from it — including me. Can science finally bring us relief?
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Amazing piece on chronic pain and the complications of treating it, living with it, getting people to even see it as real
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/m...
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In the bike-friendly Netherlands, cyclists speed down the road without fearing cars. For an American, the prospect is thrilling—and terrifying.
How I Learned to Cycle Like a Dutchman
In the bike-friendly Netherlands, cyclists speed down the road without fearing cars. For an American, the prospect is thrilling—and terrifying.
www.newyorker.com
January 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
In the bike-friendly Netherlands, cyclists speed down the road without fearing cars. For an American, the prospect is thrilling—and terrifying.
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The Mad in America #podcast is number 1 in #Psychiatry monthly podcast lists and number 8 in #Psychology according to Goodpods.
We’d love you to join us as a listener 🎧 browse our 250+ episodes on any podcast client.
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Best Psychiatry Podcasts [2025] Top Shows - Goodpods
Discover the top Psychiatry podcasts in 2025. Listen, review and see what Psychiatry podcasts your friends are listening to. | Listen on Goodpods
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January 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The Mad in America #podcast is number 1 in #Psychiatry monthly podcast lists and number 8 in #Psychology according to Goodpods.
We’d love you to join us as a listener 🎧 browse our 250+ episodes on any podcast client.
We’d love you to join us as a listener 🎧 browse our 250+ episodes on any podcast client.
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12. what a powerful essay by raven leilani in @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/ess...
Death of the Party | Raven Leilani
I was embarrassed. To be grieving incorrectly, to be doing it publicly, to be preoccupied with whether I was doing it well. Dissonance was everywhere. The blunted, abject language of bereavement, and ...
www.nplusonemag.com
January 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
12. what a powerful essay by raven leilani in @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/ess...
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