Family Practice doc, public health advocate, and occasional maker of liquid nitrogen ice cream. Rides a bike to work some days. Formerly on med-mastodon.
Posts are not medical advice, and I'm not speaking for my employer.
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"The Texas attorney general has secured an unusual settlement over child transgender care that compels Texas Children’s Hospital to create the nation’s first ever 'detransition clinic' in addition to paying the state $10 million."
#healthcare #hospitals #lgbtq #transgender #ChildrensHealth #texas
More good news about COVID vaccines!
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-vaccination-may-protect-household-members
"COVID-19 patients who were vaccinated against the virus were much less likely to infect household members than unvaccinated patients"
"…household contacts of patients vaccinated in the past six months were 43% less likely to test positive than household contacts of unvaccinated sick people, the study shows"
This effect was not found if the vaccine was more than 7 months ago.
This is horrific and a massive breach of ethics where it concerns consent.
The University of Southern California (#USC) and University of California, San Diego (#UCSD) have millions of dollars in contracts to sell bodies donated for scientific research to the #Navy who gave them to the #IDF. (Our tax dollars at work.)
Yes, the IDF. Easier to know how to kill #Palestinian kids if you take aim at some #American corpses first, I guess.
Both universities have said they plan on continuing the program. Maybe rethink your plans to donate your body to science, if that was on your agenda.
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Here's how to react if someone is having a generalized tonic-clonic seizure in front of you!
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Routine vaccines may cut dementia risk—experts have startling hypothesis on how
Vaccines may be training a part of our immune system long thought to be untrainable.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/routine-vaccines-may-cut-dementia-risk-experts-have-startling-hypothesis-on-how/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
New antiviral approved in Japan to protect against covid infection in people who have already been exposed. According to the article Xocova has applied for US approval for post-exposure use. More effective than Paxlovid with fewer side effects.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01546-0?linkId=61870217
> AI transcriber for use by Ontario doctors 'hallucinated,' generated errors, auditor finds
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ai-scribe-system-hallucinations-9.7197049
Artificial intelligence note-taking tools intended for use by Ontario doctors provided incorrect and incomplete information or demonstrated "hallucinations," and were not evaluated adequately, the province’s auditor general says in a new report.
Most Ontario-approved medical AI scribes erred in tests: auditor general.
"Supply Ontario had the bots transcribe 2 conversations betw health-care workers & patients. Most of the vendors … had inaccuracies in their results, including 'incorrect information, AI hallucinations, incomplete information,' …
60% … recorded a different drug than was prescribed … 17 of 20 'missed key details of the patients’ mental health issues in at least 1 of the 2 tests.'"
This is a really big escalation in attacking trans people and their providers. Let me say that I live in the area from which this grand jury investigation was promulgated. This is absolutely jurisdictional shopping. I’m not positive, but I may have been called for this case. I was recently summoned for grand jury, but was voir dired out when they found out I had a PhD in bioethics. It could be coincidence though.
No prosecutor in #Texas should be able to bring cases against doctors in another state that have no connection to Texas. It’s insane overreach.
Look man, trans folk have been around as long as there have been folks. They’re not hurting anyone, in fact they themselves are suffering an enormous amount of harm by people just not letting them live their lives. Fascists have picked transpeople the same way the Nazis started with LGBTQ, then moved on to disabled people, then Jews and Roma, and on and on.
Don’t be a #Nazi.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/nyu-langone-first-known-hospital
Hospital hit by criminal subpoena demanding trans youth health info
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/05/12/nyu-langone-health-transgender-gender-affirming-care/
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