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zoe cunniffe

@zoecunniffe.bsky.social

health writer subscribe to reality tunnels: https://zoeelisabeth.substack.com/

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zoe cunniffe@zoecunniffe.bsky.social · last yr.

I've thought a lot about whether new products/technologies for women's health are actually addressing health inequities or if they're just the latest way of exploiting women, and this article does a great job of laying out that issue www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

‘Femtech’ takes on the women’s health-care marketplace

A fast-growing industry offers high-tech solutions for feminine health problems. Its many female founders say they’re tackling the age-old equity gap in health care.

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Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last yr.

As I've said, Trump officials suggest it's no big deal to reduce access to health care since it's mostly other things that are making Americans sick, like toxic chemicals. But they're allowing more toxic chemicals too bsky.app/profile/cram...

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2y ago

The GOP is laying the groundwork to cut federal health spending by arguing that access to medical care doesn’t make you sick — other societal ills do. Poor nutrition, neurotoxins, etc. Unfortunately, the rest of the GOP agenda will make those other problems worse, too. wapo.st/3DUcVQM

Mad in America@mad-in-america.bsky.social · last yr.

Is Global Mental Health Missing the Point? Ethiopian Voices Challenge Western Models Interviews with people diagnosed with depression in Ethiopia raise concerns about Western mental health interventions. By Richard Sears

Is Global Mental Health Missing the Point? Ethiopian Voices Challenge Western Models

Interviews with people diagnosed with depression in Ethiopia highlight how social, economic, and cultural struggles shape psychological suffering, raising concerns about Western mental health…

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Anu Li@panikadoc.bsky.social · last yr.

I hate that wellness got co-opted by the right because there really is a good conversation to have about our food systems and what goes into foods that could be harming us, but instead of passing regulations on food companies like other countries it’s going to be “you can’t buy snacks with SNAP”

Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD@roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 2y ago

To help people understand the importance of NIH, share what you’ve used their funding for (in easily understandable terms). I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.

Mad in America@mad-in-america.bsky.social · 2y ago

From Community to Commodity: The Global Takeover of Western Mental Health Models While promising healing, exported Western psychology often reinforces the very inequalities it seeks to address. By Liam Gehrig Bach https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/12/from-community-to-commodity-the-global-takeov…

From Community to Commodity: The Global Takeover of Western Mental Health Models

While promising healing, exported Western psychology often reinforces the very inequalities it seeks to address.

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