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Formerly @lightchronic on Twitter. Trying to share good info on Disability. Posts chiefly by @mhdtim.bsky.app . Podcast on the Northland Media culture feed, northlandmedia.podbean.com Wear your scars with pride.

The Bay Area faces a funding crisis for its public transit, but a ballot measure could come to the rescue. For @motherjones.com, I reported on the measure and talked with aging and disabled adults, who are more likely to use transit, on what's at stake for them. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

America's billionaire capital is poised to gut public transit

Voters in the San Francisco Bay Area are split on a measure to rescue local transit. Disabled and low-income residents' mobility is on the line.

motherjones.com

"Corridor care" in the ED is a long-standing reality, not just in AoNZ. In the UK, a recent report stated "...corridor care is unacceptable and must not be normalised." It then had a "fantasy document" on how to provide respectful care in a corridor. www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/pr...

ED corridor diagnoses could breach Health and Disability code, commissioner says

The Health and Disability Commissioner says crowded emergency departments could be breaching patients' rights to talk in private about their symptoms and medical history.

rnz.co.nz

I was fortunate enough to be interviewed by J.J. Pionke before he passed. Read here about disability in literature, in the act of writing, and AI. We also talk about "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything", my Nebula-winning and Hugo/Sturgeon nominated short story! cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/vol3/...

Interview with Effie Seiberg on 'Laser Eyes Ain't Everything'

JJ Pionke interviews Effie Seiberg about her Nebula Award-winning, Hugo and Sturgeon Award-nominated short story “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything.” They also talk about ME/CFS, her creative process, and h...

cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu

You can now read Carlos Vargas Moreno's story at The Guardian. Carlos was an H-2A worker who experienced a debilitating heat stroke in 2022 after being subjected to unsafe work conditions by his employer, Florida Orange Gold. Two years prior, another Florida Orange Gold worker died of heat stroke.

Heatstroke ruined his health. Years before, it took the life of another farm worker at the same company

A farm labor contractor exposed laborers on H-2A agricultural visas to heat-related health hazards, but the contractor is still bringing hundreds of migrant farm workers to North Carolina

theguardian.com

“Chelation therapy” for autism, quackery better described as administering dangerous drugs for no actual indication (often the wrong/less safe chelator drugs, too) for cash to try to suck “autism-causing toxins” out of children (autism is not caused by postnatal toxic exposure) has *killed* children

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The FDA used to have a warning on its website against bogus autism “remedies,” eg, the dangerous—sometimes deadly—chelation pushed by RFK Jr & his antivaxx ally David Geier RFK Jr ordered the warnings to be removed 😢 Anyone who tells me I must “find common cause” with MAHA & its leader can STFU

🧵The US no longer meets criteria for measles elimination. Utah's outbreak has lasted for more than a yr. And cases this yr are at a 35-yr high. I talked w/pediatricians treating measles & talking w/parents who don't vaccinate. My latest @wired.com @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/the-ch...

‘The Child Is Terrified’: Measles Doctors Speak Out

Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah, as the US faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease...

wired.com

Today is World IVF Day, marking the anniversary of the birth of Louise Brown in 1978, the 1st baby born via IVF. Today, over 500K babies are born worldwide via IVF each yr; it has helped millions of ppl conceive who otherwise would not have, including those w/ social infertility(LGBTQ+ & single ppl)