FDA okays new coronavirus vaccine as respiratory illness season nears
The updated shot targets omicron subvariants that are circulating throughout the United States https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/09/11/covid-vaccine-new-booster/ #covid #vaccine #healthcare

Toronto Hospital Board Members Are Largely Wealthy And Conservative

169 Toronto hospital board members are donors to Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative Party.

by Terra Loire Gillespie

"Unlike medical doctors, hospital board members don’t take a hippocratic oath — based on the pledge to do no harm — but their decisions nonetheless affect everyone's health care experience."

#Toronto #topoli #Ontario #onpoli #Healthcare

https://www.readthemaple.com/toronto-hospital-board-members-are-largely-wealthy-and-conservative/

NEW PODCAST EPISODE!

It was fantastic speaking with Rebel Bodies author and journalist Sarah Graham on the gender, LGBTQIA and race health gap.

#books #bookstodon #inequality #equality #health #Healthcare #lgbt #LGBTQIA #gender #racism

Listen to the episode: https://tinyurl.com/ywstr5s6

Watch the interview: https://tinyurl.com/2s6ccftb

#US - Rolling Medicaid Purge

> Largest Concentration of Health Insurance Loss in US History

> States across the U.S. have stripped nearly 6 million people of Medicaid coverage over just the past several months, creating what one healthcare activist and researcher described as "the largest concentration of health insurance loss in American history."
https://portside.org/2023-09-09/rolling-medicaid-purge #Medicaid #healthcare

@parismarx @mcmansionhell
🥥 Same thing with #HealthCare. Should N O T be for profit. 🥥 🥥

“If there’s a profit in it, then they’ll do it. They’re not going to do a single thing that doesn’t benefit them, first and foremost.”

Excerpt From
These Are the Plunderers p. 268
Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner

#privateEquity #bookstodon #nonfiction #predatoryCapitalism #hospitals #medicare #healthcare #stewartHealthCare #stewartHealth #nashobaValley

A new video series for September from Dr. Glaucomflecken:

"30 Days of US Health Care"

If you don't know him he makes videos about the messed up health care system in the USA.

Funny, but also infuriating. Insurance lobby has a huge influence on congress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp7u58R41N8&list=PLpMVXO0TkGpdvjujyXuvMBNy6ZgkiNb4W&index=1

#Funny #Videos #HealthCare #USA

Healthcare today in the US: you can't even talk to the receptionist until you've filled out 5 pages of paperwork before your appointment, even though you filled out 5 pages of questionnaires online.

#US #HealthCare

Do I need to worry about #COVID again? https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/eris-ba286-do-i-need-worry-about-covid-again-2023-08-19/#:~:text=So far there is no,from COVID remains the same.
It may have been a year or more since many people were either previously infected or vaccinated against COVID.
#GlobalHealth #WomensHealth #healthcare #pandemic

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“Private equity–backed health care has been a disaster for patients and for doctors,” said Mark Reiter, residency program director of emergency medicine at the University of Tennessee. “Many decisions are made for what’s going to maximize profits for the private equity company, rather than what is best for the patient, what is best for the community.”

These Are the Plunderers
Morgenson & Rosner

#privateEquity #bookstodon #nonfiction #kkr #predatoryCapitalism #hospitals #medicare #healthcare

Nothing says "Happy Labor Day" like arresting #healthcare workers who were peacefully protesting for adequate staffing at Kaiser Permanente.

https://www.latimes.com/story/2023-09-04/a-labor-day-demonstration-led-to-the-peaceful-arrest-of-roughly-two-dozen-people-protesting-kaiser-permanentes-labor-practices

@daviddd this is only done to prevent people from #DIY #healthcare because the #NHS breaks apart on it's overstretched seams...

Microbe stops mosquitoes from harboring #malaria parasite. The strategy could provide additional weapon against spread of deadly disease https://www.science.org/content/article/microbe-stops-mosquitoes-harboring-malaria-parasite
#globalhealth #internationalhealth #Africa #healthcare

@artisanrox

@drahardja

I agree but would argue that the lack of universal healthcare is not an argument against UBI.

Money is ...well, fungible. UBI that enables me to afford healthcare allows me to spend the remainder on housing & food.

#UBI #healthcare #universalhealthcare #medicareforall

These Are the Plunderers, p 204,
Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner
#privateEquity #bookstodon #nonfiction #kkr #predatoryCapitalism #emergencyroom #healthCare #enVision #EmCare

#nursingHome #healthCare

Autistic people often don't have great experiences with doctors. I suspect that in part it's because of doctors failing to humanise their patients.

@actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy #autistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #medicine #NHS #healthcare

A database mess up with over 17 billion records, which is equivalent to about 6.35 terabytes of data.

#CyberSecurity #Vulnerability #Leaks #Healthcare
https://www.hackread.com/cigna-health-data-leak-17-billion-records-exposed/

Highways are the next antiabortion target. One Texas town is resisting.
A new ordinance, passed in several jurisdictions and under consideration elsewhere, aims to stop people from using local roads to drive someone out of state for an abortion
By Caroline Kitchener

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/01/texas-abortion-highways/
#texas #abortion #WomensRights #HealthCare