#Medical

1) In the game Monopoly, once enough properties are owned by a single player, renters can't afford to pay rents and are therefore forced into bankruptcy - and the game
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As someone who is a) worried about vaccine hesitancy & impact this news might have b) worried about impact instances of clotting might have on same c) aware that Black
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I keep seeing people say "Get screened for colon cancer" and folks, under 40 it's almost impossible to get most insurance to cover a screening. Even with a family history
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An inquest released on 9 October concluded that excessive use of force by @metpoliceuk and “serious failures” by public service providers contributed to Kevin Clarke’s death in police custody.#JusticeForKevinClarke #BLMUK
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**LONG THREAD. I have realized that something has been bothering me the past couple of days as the horror of #Herron has been exposed as well as the very dire
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STOP using the language "pre-existing conditions" to describe medically vulnerable people."Pre-existing conditions" IS MADE UP by the American health insurance industry so that they can deny health care to people.
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#NHSLouisaJordan is trending but Louisa was only one of many brilliant Scottish medical women who contributed during WWI. So a THREAD of my favies Flora Masson was awarded a Royal
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Many of our amazing members are stepping up during this difficult time to help their community, aid their employees, and help fight COVID-19. We want to highlight their stories. #DoGoodMN
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1. There's a perverse notion I keep hearing; it sure looks like an excuse to avoid doing things that people know they ought to be doing. It's that imperfect disease
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It's been over 6yrs = 72 months = 312 weeks and more that I've suffered this "spinal cord" illness.It's with an excruciating pain that has lasted every hour and every
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Reminder that this is actually, literally, a Geneva Convention violation.https://twitter.com/KnowParty/status/1279193542469079042 Many people have pointed out that so is the use of tear gas. And yes, it is, but unfortunately governments
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The timing of the Senate committee hearing, with a Big Ten presence (chancellor and coach) testifying, yesterday, and the Big Ten return of football announcement, today, is WILD We’ll see
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Under-examined in vaccine hesitancy discourse is how decades of a “you’re on your own” approach to health makes it hard to get ppl to buy into collective health campaigns. If
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Status: staring blearily at science advocacy/#scicomm responses to the 5G/Covid-19 myth that rely on explanatory interventions that it's pretty clear from the anti-antivax and other cases *are not persuasive to
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Fatphobia in the medical industry is killing people especially women. The correlation between weight and health is far less clear than conventional wisdom claims https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/fat-is-not-the-problem-fat-s
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To anybody curious. My eye ruptured when a FWPD Officer unnecessarily and improperly fired a tear gas canister at my head hitting my eye. I’ll be fine but I’m probably
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