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J Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈Aug 1, 2024

J Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈Jul 23, 2024

The Biden White House Archived Jul 23, 2024

President Biden is taking action to make renting and homeownership more affordable for millions of Americans.

J Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈Jul 23, 2024

STAT Jul 23, 2024

People under 45 have been driving an increase in liver-related deaths, especially those caused by alcohol. But a sliver of that young adult population is being hit disproportionately hard by alcohol-associated liver disease: transgender people.

https://www.statnews.com/2024/07/22/trans-adults-liver-cirrhosis-alcohol-use/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

Q&A: Trans adults face 'shocking' risk of cirrhosis, especially alcohol-driven

A liver transplant physician who found "alarming rates of liver disease" among trans individuals urges clinicians and the LGBTQ community to look for signs of cirrhosis and alcohol misuse.

STAT

J Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈Jul 19, 2024

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BrianKrebs Jul 19, 2024

This is fitting. The top topic on Xitter right now is of course the global Crowdstrike/Windows clusterfuck. But the AI summary of the discussion is hilarious, b/c it summarizes a bunch of sarcastic posts and makes it sound like a positive (or at least can-do) story.

J Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈Jul 19, 2024

Steve Herman Jul 19, 2024

Russia sentences US journalist Evan Gershkovich to 16 years after a spying trial widely seen as politically motivated. https://search.app/gr4ABbMom4AaiFK4A

Russia sentences US journalist Evan Gershkovich to 16 years after a spying trial widely seen as politically motivated

ABC News

J Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈Jul 19, 2024

Tarah Wheeler Jul 19, 2024

The CrowdStrike fix must be deployed manually on a per-machine basis.

Hugops to, well, everyone.

https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-windows-outage-crowdstrike-global-it-probems/

Huge Microsoft Outage, Linked To CrowdStrike, Takes Down Computers Around the World

A software update from cybersecurity company Crowdstrike appears to have inadvertently disrupted IT systems globally.

WIRED

J Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈Jul 11, 2024

STAT Jul 11, 2024

Alcohol has long been classified as a cancer-causing substance, but a study gives a clearer sense of just how many cancer cases and deaths may be driven by drinking.

https://www.statnews.com/2024/07/11/alcohol-cancer-causes-smoking-obesity/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

Alcohol is driving a half-dozen types of cancer in the U.S., study finds

Alcohol, along with the better-known risks of smoking and obesity, is one of the "potentially modifiable risk factors" driving tens of thousands of cancer cases a year.

STAT

J Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈Jul 9, 2024

Brittany Trang Jul 9, 2024

It's so bad that the police are blowing the whistle:

Dozens of psychiatric hospitals that look like they're owned by local hospitals

like Columbus, OH's own Mt. Carmel

are actually run by investor-owned chains w/ reputations for understaffing, rape, violence, & pt deaths

@STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2024/07/08/psychiatric-hospital-investor-owned-chains-operate-under-nonprofit-brands/

#health #healthcare #behavioralhealth #psychiatry #mentalhealth #medMastodon #hospital #UHS #Acadia

Troubled for-profit chains are stealthily operating dozens of psychiatric hospitals under nonprofits’ names

Dozens of nonprofits are turning to investor-owned chains to build new hospitals to manage the surging number of patients experiencing mental health emergencies.

STAT

J Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈Jun 13, 2024

#freeEvan