@HaswoodForKS Love this - I have some KU School of Pharmacy students who are super engaged in policy and would be interested in a visit when they return to school in August! I will reach out.
CALL TO ACTION: I need all of your help.
There is a black box warning on low dose vaginal estrogen (VE) products. See below. It states, "warning: endometrial cancer, cardiovascular disorders, probable dementia." Low dose VE has NEVER been show to cause any of the above.
A physician "waived aside concerns about measles" is a sentence I never thought I would have to read in 2024. 🚩🚩🚩 Watching it live was truly horrifying and that was before the gross and false attacks on immigrants...
A Kansas lawmaker known for pushing discredited treatments for people with COVID-19 urged a bill Thursday pumped from the same vein: An attempt to strip state health officials of their authority to fight infectious diseases. https://t.co/UqNPEReH8s
Y'all. I'm back on this hellsite because I wanted a naloxone pin and wound up adding more stickers & pins to my cart, then this incredible box of radical public health swag shows up 😻 Going to post, I realize it's @clairezagorski- everyone needs to order from Pin Pen Merger!
@GilbertPharmD @ACCP Are pharmacy orgs competing to see who is the worst COVID misinformation spreader they can find?? First NABP with “Dr” Drew and now this?? I would absolutely cancel a conference drop a membership over this. “Lively Q&A” my ass.
Kansas has lost 268 hospital beds since 2005, meaning that Kansans now have to wait longer and drive further to receive care.
It doesn’t have to be like this. Tell your #ksleg leadership to support Medicaid expansion.
This month in the US, people were shot for ringing the wrong doorbell, getting into the wrong car, using a leaf blower, delivering food to the wrong address, driving into the wrong driveway, and for asking a neighbor to stop shooting so a baby could sleep.
It’s the fucking guns.
In all my years working with immunizations, this is the coolest resource I’ve ever seen for helping answer questions patients have. Truly important work from two incredibly brave women.
I was given the opportunity to coauthor a public health booklet from the lens of a formerly antivax parent. I talk about the tropes I wholeheartedly believed and how I realized I was so wrong about them. #WhyIVax#VaccinesWork
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Some people will say that vaccines are victims of their own success. Families thankfully don’t see the harm of these diseases anymore and thus don’t value prevention as much. #vaccinescauseadults
The recommended vaccines for babies & children have saved countless lives. We vaccinate to give ALL kids the best shot at a healthy childhood -- the numbers speak for themselves.
#LetsTalkAboutVaxBaby
IKC was joined by 26 KS organizations, 9 national and partner organizations, and 167 individuals; urging lawmakers to reject any changes to current vaccine policies. Let's stand for proven vaccine policy protections in our state! View our press release: https://t.co/XjE3HbWCW9