France makes a key move towards legalising medical cannabis.
France has taken a key step towards legalising medical cannabis with a formal notification to the European Commission of its regulations on medical cannabis. A key administrative step towards finally fully legalising its use.
The filing follows a successful three-year experiment on the prescription and distribution of the drug.
I can’t get over the cognitive dissonance of spending 12 hours of intense work in clinic, using every minute of my 25 years of training and experience to formulate treatment plans for my patients with #cancer, and then to come home and check the news and to read about every part of the infrastructure needed to attain the knowledge for these treatment plans bring intentionally dismantled
Warum gibt es kein Open-Source-PDMS in Deutschland?
Patientendokumentationssysteme (PDMS) in der Gesundheitsbranche in Deutschland sind meines Wissens alle proprietär. Dabei könnten Open-Source-Lösungen meines Erachtens Transparenz, Zusammenarbeit, Patient:innen Sicherheit und Kosteneffizienz fördern.
Zudem entsteht die hohe IT-Komplexität in der Krankenhauslandschaft unter anderem durch einen Flickenteppich an individuellen Lösungen. Warum gibt es also noch keine gemeinsame Initiative von Kliniken? Kennt jemand ein solches Projekt?
Ich würde mich sehr dafür interessieren.
A team of archivists have recreated the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) website from just before it was purged by US President Donald Trump, hosting it in Europe!
Chatted with a homeless guy today, he mentioned various serious illnesses he had. I asked if he had seen a doctor and received treatment for them, he replied of course, why wouldn't he? From tone of his voice it was an obvious thing to do, he seemed surprised I asked.
This is how healthcare is supposed to work, it is a human right even for people with nothing. It's supposed to be like calling the fire brigade if there's a fire, pros deal with the problem and no one worries about the bill. It's shocking to hear Americans being denied this right, and being lied to about the reasons why by their government.
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Since Texas brought its near-total abortion ban, no one has studied the statewide effect on people undergoing pregnancy complications. So @ProPublica did it, purchasing and analyzing seven years of hospital discharge data. The findings: The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50 percent for those hospitalized in the second trimester of pregnancy. “This is exactly what we predicted would happen and exactly what we were afraid would happen,” said Dr. Lorie Harper, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist in Austin.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-maternal-mortality-analysis
BIG HEMP continues to hype CBD extracts from fertilizer-ladden mechanized crops that carry heavy metals and toxins, as hemp is one heck of a bioaccumulator.
The clean and effective ancestral cannabic medicine is made from artisanal organic flower, and darn simple to prepare at home for many health conditions.
In the post linked I explain all the scientifically proven properties of cannabis tea made from dry "recreative" flower.
It produces little to no high, since its THCa and CBDa based (acidic raw versions of THC and CBD).
#medicalcannabis #healthcare #cannabismedicinal #cannabis
#cbd #thc #cbda #thca #weed
#marihuana #marijuana #health #cannabisscience #science
#ImmuneSystem #autoimmune #selfcare #neurodivergent #depression #chronicillness #chronicpain #pain #ptsd
#regenerativemedicine #solarpunk #naturephotography
#JorgeAlbanPhotos #ThickTrunkTuesday #slowart
Gonorrhea cases hit record high as STIs soar in Europe.
Cases of syphilis and gonorrhoea rose significantly from 2022 to 2023.
Two Detroiters. One shared journey, two different paths.
D’Juan and Larenz share a bond through sickle cell disease, but their paths couldn’t be more different.
Larenz is symptom-free after a stem cell transplant. D’Juan continues to navigate life with the disease.
Their conversation sheds light on the challenges, inequities and hope surrounding sickle cell treatments in Detroit.
This is what 
for-profit healthcare does to us…
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A leaked report reveals UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest insurer, systematically limits access to critical autism therapy by culling providers, leaving families and advocates outraged.
The damning internal documents obtained by ProPublica show that the company has implemented cost-cutting measures targeting applied behavior analysis (ABA), a widely recognized therapy for children with autism.
UnitedHealth’s report acknowledges ABA as the “evidence-based gold standard treatment” but outlines strategies to reduce its availability. These include removing providers from their network and denying therapy hours requested by clinicians. The strategy primarily targets those children who are the poorest and most vulnerable, covered through state-contracted Medicaid plans.
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Everyone in the U.S. who is pregnant or who is close to a pregnant person should read @ProPublica’s story, which was written in consultation with doctors and gives essential information on medical procedures, terminology and more.
Fuck you, you fucking douchebag.
You want people to have more #children?
#Healthcare. #Housing. #Daycare. #Maternity and #paternity leave. #Child #tax credits. A #livingwage. Four day workweek. Etc.
Nah: deny #women the right to have an #abortion and make everyone #poor and desperate, right? Goddamned #plutocrat assholes.
Plus, you raised an absolute festering pustule of a son, #ElonMusk. So don't you dare lecture anyone about #parenting, Cruella.
A good news story..
A large clinical trial in South Africa and Uganda has shown that a twice-yearly injection of a new pre-exposure prophylaxis drug gives young women total protection from HIV infection.
#HIV #Aids #Healthcare #Africa #Uganda #SouthAfrica
HIV breakthrough: drug trial shows injection twice a year is 100% effective against infection
https://theconversation.com/hiv-breakthrough-drug-trial-shows-injection-twice-a-year-is-100-effective-against-infection-233295
Found an interesting graph with absolutely no relation to current events on Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Life_expectancy_vs_healthcare_spending.jpg
I forget who I learned this from, but it's pretty useful to add Reagan's face right around 1981 to help understand changes in US over time.
Also, if you like speculative thrillers, my first book THE ALGORITHM WILL SEE YOU NOW is my attempt to use the lens of fiction to examine what might happen in the near-future if we let algorithms take the decision-making away from human doctors...and one young surgeon's journey to rediscover her hope and humanity while racing against the clock to save her teen patient's life...
As an indie author with a small press, I could always use more reads and reviews, if this kind of book is your jam
https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Will-See-You-Now-ebook/dp/B0BLD16W7T/
#Healthcare as suffering: “We sat in the hospital for 3 days b/c #UnitedHealthcare refused to approve the transfer via ambulance from the hospital where we live to another state. & at that point, I was ready to just get in my car & take her [1-year old baby with a giant brain tumor] there myself. But UHC told us if we left the hospital by our own will, & it wasn’t via ambulance, they were not going to cover her @ the next hospital we went to,” she said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/07/brian-thompson-killing-healthcare-industry
Here's a common "peer-to-peer" conversation I have repeatedly with the #insurance companies as an oncologist:
Me: I want to appeal your denial of my patient's PET scan
Them: Sorry, PET scan isn't on our approved list
Me: You approved it last time, and it's a standard-of-care that the patient have a repeat PET scan to assess if their treatment is working
Them: Oh, we approved it last time?
[much hemming and hawing while they verify this]
Me: By the way, are you a board-certified oncologist?
Them: [again much hemming and hawing, and only when I insist do they tell me their name and credentials (and about 95% of the time they aren't an oncologist)]
Me: Let me make sure I have the spelling of your name correct for the chart so I can make a note of who is denying the necessary medical care for my patient
Them: [Finds a way to approve the PET scan]
And scene
(many times a month)
Every day of of being in #healthcare since #covid19 emerged, contemplating what could possibly be responsible for the surge in:
Walking Pneumonia, Renal Failure, Heart Attacks, Cognitive complaints, Cancer under the age of 40, Parkinson's under the age of 50:
"We ain't found shit."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=g3iFJpGJiug&t=26s
