A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to #Texas Emergency Rooms
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It took three ER visits and 20 hours before a #hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened.

Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm “fetal demise.”

She’s one of at least two Texas women who died under the state’s #abortion ban.

#News#Health#HealthCare#Pregnancy#Government#Law#Safety#Family

https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala

New: A #Texas Woman Died After the Hospital Said It Would be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage
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Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care.

She'd told her husband that the medical team said it couldn't act until the fetal heartbeat stopped.

#News #abortion #pregnancy #health #healthcare #government #law

https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban

“We should ban surveillance advertising. Period. Companies should not be allowed to collect our data without our meaningful opt-in consent, and if that was the standard, there would be no data-collection:”
— @pluralistic

Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk :
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/08/late-stage-sea-monkeys/#jeremys-razors

More about healthy #iSpaces - BBC's Rethink: Is the internet getting worse?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022z9r

#iHealth#HealthyInternet#Health

At least a dozen employees at the Dept of #VeteransAffairs improperly accessed the #MedicalRecords of VP nominees #JDVance & #TimWalz this summer, VA investigators found, in a violation of federal #health #privacy #laws that is under #criminal investigation.
VA ofcls notified the #Vance & #Walz campaigns about the breaches after discovering the unauthorized viewing by employees at the agency’s massive health-care arm, the #Veterans Health Admin….

#law#USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/30/vance-walz-medical-records-breach-va/

A friend shared this today on another social media platform.

Five Steps to Cope with Political Stress:

1. Limit your news consumption. The 24-hour news coverage is designed to keep you on high alert. Pay attention to your mood and physical reactions while consuming the news; if you feel anxious, agitated or angry, these are cues to turn it off.

#News
#Politics
#Stress
#Health
#MentalHealth

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https://hr.harvard.edu/files/humanresources/files/coping_with_political_stress.pdf