Tara Haelle

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Supreme Court's Chevron Ruling Could Reshape Public Health via @tarahaelle.bsky.social www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/supr...

Supreme Court's Chevron Ruling Could Reshape Public Health | Think Global Healthwww.thinkglobalhealth.org Overturning Chevron could deter policy for disaster responses, food safety, gender protections, and health care

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I know it's hard to keep up with everything coming out, but this piece looking at the effect of losing Chevron on public health by @tarahaelle.bsky.social is one to bookmark.

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Most adults between 1957 and 1975 will need to decide whether to get a second dose of the measles vaccine in order to be fully protected. Link below is not paywalled archive.is/2024.05.13-1...

The U.S. is in the midst of one of its largest measles outbreaks since the disease was declared eliminated from the country in 2000. Are you adequately protected if measles comes to your community? Here's how to find out. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

How to Check If You Have Immunity to Measles or Need Another Dosewww.scientificamerican.com Certain adults may need to get an additional dose of the measles vaccine. Here’s how to know if you have adequate immunity to measles

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“Book bans and challenges ebb and flow. But it’s never been as pronounced as it is right now. It’s just relentless... The best thing we can do is to make sure our books are more diverse than ever. Even if this means we’re going to sell fewer copies of the book.” www.fastcompany.com/91087732/the...

How publishers response to book bans is boosting the industry - Fast Companywww.fastcompany.com Publishers are fighting back on book bans by flooding the market with books representing diverse points of view.

It may not seem it but this article took 6+ months to report & edit because of its complexity & making sense of the controversies while being fair to all involved. Big thanks to editor Nick Tate for helping throughout & being a hell of a cheerleader when I needed it. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

The Long, Controversial Search for a 'Cancer Microbiome'www.medscape.com Conflicting research and divisive logic dominate the quest to answer a critical question: Do cancer tumors have their own microbiomes, and what would that mean for an eventual cure?

I learned *so* much about pelvic organ prolapse and about pelvic floor health while writing this article, and I may very well become an evangelist for pelvic floor health after writing it. Aimed at PCPs but with good info for everyone. www.mdedge.com/familymedici...

From Stigma to Support: Raising Awareness of Pelvic Organ Prolapsewww.mdedge.com Pelvic organ prolapse affects more than half of all women eventually and gets worse with age, but adequate screening can ensure appropriate treatment.

Trans issues will be important in this year's elections with so many initiatives targeting trans people & so much misinformation out there. This National Press Club webinar will offer info on what to expect & how to cover the issues. Register here: www.pressclubinstitute.org/event/coveri...

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For those outside New York, Errol Louis is a local political reporter and pundit who is by no means anti-cop. It’s meaningful that he’s the one saying that NYPD can’t be trusted on this.

“I would caution taking NYPD at their word on this because they kept reporters at a distance and released their own footage.” - Errol Louis on NY1

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we trained an entire generation of kids how to handle getting shot at school and now people are acting surprised that they’re not afraid of getting shot at

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Last week I received a letter telling me that I had violated LAPD IP with my FUCK THE LAPD design. Today my lawyer @questauthority.bsky.social responded.

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Checking google scholar for recent articles with the phrase "certainly, here is a":

As you may recall from the other day, it is essential to the future of the university that academics fully and unquestioningly incorporate LLMs into their teaching and research practice

Oh my. This “explanation” makes it even LESS mundane. What a colossal mistake, and what remarkable (and yet typical) complete lack of self awareness.

This mini-thread is a book recommendation, but it's also an articles recommendation and a "keep an eye on this area of science" recommendation. The book rec first: YOU NEED TO READ ULTRA PROCESSED PEOPLE by Chris Van Tulleken.

I cant stop laughing at this.

This is a thing of beauty.

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NYT: Biden “facing significant opposition,” 78-16. Trump “again coasting,” 65-31.

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the mindset that the Normative American is a “Reagan Democrat” who is pissed about hippies has had such a lock on the brains of the American political class for my whole lifetime

I missed an interview that led to missing a deadline—which I couldn’t tell my editor about (I lost WiFi too)—delaying my story 2 days, on top of other list work. But thanks AT&T, I could almost buy a coffee at Starbucks with your measly 5 bucks while I had no service for 9 hours.

My initial reaction to making the full interview available was conflicted. I realized, thanks to Ben’s comments & replies to him, that that’s bc these interviews are so often done poorly & therefore do legitimize someone. BUT, when done WELL & source is challenged, it’s journalism done right.

I recommend you watch it. Taylor does extremely well here, and Chaya comes off universally as petulant and strange. This is how you actually interview someone like this, who has twisted themself into a pretzel to defend a hate campaign that has consumed their entire life and identity.

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She nailed the interview and even the far-right is having trouble defending Chaya after this one. She comes across as not just cruel but vapid even to some of her own followers. It's a service to reveal this to those on the fence about taking her seriously. Please don't throw me into a volcano.

This is glorious.

it's been long enough for me to admit publicly that when i left Gizmodo in 2022 I changed my Slack username to "S1ackbot" and the G/O Media failed to detect or delete it for months

Nex had been bullied for over a year for their non-binary identity. It was in a school bathroom — in Oklahoma, where the governor signed an anti-trans bathroom bill into law — where a fight ended their life. The school never even called an ambulance. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Oklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now a bullied student is deadwww.independent.co.uk Nex Benedict died one day after a fight in a school bathroom. Their mother Sue Benedict tells Bevan Hurley that the gender fluid teenager endured more than a year of abuse simply for being who they we...

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Nex Benedict's death in Oklahoma is a story of the hate that has been unleashed in recent years. Following ongoing bullying because they were nonbinary, Nex was severely injured in a fight at school on Feb. 7 and died a day later. This story, and their life, matters.

This is one of the stories I'm most proud of having done in my career, and lots of thanks go to the many sources who gave me their time and responded to repeated queries over the months I worked on it, as well as to my awesome @sciencenews.bsky.social editor Beth Quill. #harmreduction

#Overdose prevention centers (supervised injection sites) have helped reduce #addiction mortality globally for 3+ decades. The first recently opened in the U.S. Here's the result of 7 mos of reporting on OPCs & #opioids #harmreduction at @sciencenews.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/over...

U.S. opioid deaths are out of control. Can safe injection sites help?www.sciencenews.org A new NIH study will evalute the only two officially sanctioned sites, in New York City, and a future site in Providence, R.I.

It took 10 doctors, 1 trauma-based nurse, 2 states, 1 move, quitting her job, 2 #Covid infections, 3 different psychiatric medications, 1 day at a mental health crisis center and 3 years for Emma Smith to receive her diagnosis of #longCovid. Read her story here. medium.com/long-covid-c...

Ten Doctors, Two States, One Invisible Illnessmedium.com It took ten doctors, one trauma-based nurse, two states, one move, quitting my job, two Covid infections, three different psychiatric…

Living with long COVID has been nothing but "hell" for Matt Johnson, but some others stepping up to help could make a big difference in his life and that of others living with long COVID. A recent piece from Long COVID Connection. Contact me if you'd like to contribute. medium.com/long-covid-c...

My (Very) Long COVID Experience — Help Wantedmedium.com It has taken me a very long time to write about my very long and grueling experience with what is called “long-haul COVID” or simply “long…

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Two years ago, we wrote in the Guardian: "The CDC is beholden to corporations and lost our trust." With today's news about the CDC weakening COVID isolation guidance, likely influenced by corporate interests, this statement continues to sadly hold true.

The CDC is beholden to corporations and lost our trust. We need to start our own | The People's CDCwww.theguardian.com We’re epidemiologists, nurses and physicians, artists and biologists. We have come together with a common anger at the US government’s handling of Covid