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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 15h

Because Donald Trump knows that the vaccines are safe and effective and that they save lives.

And he doesn’t want to die from COVID or the flu.

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 15h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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Liz Herrieven @drlizherrieven.bsky.social · 2d

@rcem.ac.uk @rcemlearning.bsky.social @rcn.org.uk @rcoanews.bsky.social @rcgp-innovait.bsky.social

Liz Herrieven @drlizherrieven.bsky.social · 2d

Applications open for PGCert course in meeting the medical needs of adults with learning disability. Relevant for any clinical specialty, and to doctors, senior nurses and AHPs. Fully funded for applicants from England

#MedSky #LearningDisability

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Training programme to meet the medical needs of adults with a learning disability

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Liz Herrieven @drlizherrieven.bsky.social · 2d

Applications open for PGCert course in meeting the medical needs of adults with learning disability. Relevant for any clinical specialty, and to doctors, senior nurses and AHPs. Fully funded for applicants from England

#MedSky #LearningDisability

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Training programme to meet the medical needs of adults with a learning disability

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 6d

"The often referenced moral test of the measure of a civilization being based on how it treats its most vulnerable members is not one that the United States would pass today." Shoumita Dasgupta on our ableist administration, @statnews.com:

www.statnews.com/2025/10/03/a... #autism #neurodiversity

The Trump administration’s approach to autism is tangled up with ableism, eugenics, and pronatalism

“The current political establishment and their supporters have consistently pathologized difference,” particularly when it comes to autism, a professor of medicine writes.

www.statnews.com

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Natalie May @nmay.bsky.social · 8d

Rural Resus tip no.2 from @emcrit.bsky.social at #SSEM25 - mechanical CPR is a game changer in human-resource-stretched environments

Rural Resus tip no.3 - establish good ongoing ALS in the Resus bay before taking ambulance handover #FOAMed #FOAMSky

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Liz Herrieven @drlizherrieven.bsky.social · 9d

#EmergencyMedicine #Paediatrics

New emergency care standards for children and young people published today

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Facing the Future - standards for children and young people in emergency care settings

These standards outline how to deliver safe, high quality and integrated care for children and young people in Paediatric Emergency Departments in the UK. The 5th edition of the standards was publishe...

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 12d

I don’t want to hear anything else about what we should or shouldn’t be putting in our bodies (Tylenol, artificial sweeteners, sugar, or fat) until something is done about the BULLETS being put into bodies

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RCEMLearning @rcemlearning.bsky.social · 17d

NEW: So, you’ve decided to embark on your #PoCUS journey, congratulations! If you’ve felt lost and confused, read our #blog, and if you haven’t – carry on reading, nonetheless!

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 18d

It's all fun and games until a cop handles a Tylenol gelcap with no gloves and within seconds their socks are bothering them.

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 18d

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 18d

calling autism a “tragedy” and saying that there should be fewer autistic people are eugenicist talking points. Everyone who opposes such views also needs to recognize the ways in which everyday ableism left the door wide open for a person like RFK Jr.

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Ben Canham @bencanham.bsky.social · 18d

I’m autistic. Not because of Tylenol.
Not because of vaccines.
Not because of some headline.
I’m autistic because that’s how
my brain works. Stop treating us
like a problem. Start listening to us.

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Liz Herrieven @drlizherrieven.bsky.social · 18d

3/3) WW2 Nazis targeted those they felt to be less than normal. Trump & co don’t care about autistic people who can serve their needs (e.g. Musk). They want rid of those who need support from others & society - the vulnerable & dependent. This is big and terrifying and we can’t stay quiet about it.

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Liz Herrieven @drlizherrieven.bsky.social · 18d

2/3) There’s no link between parental actions and a child being autistic. Parents of children with additional needs fight for equity for our children in a world that’s not set up for it. We feel guilt for not fighting hard enough, when there’s no more fight in us. Please don’t make it worse for us.

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Liz Herrieven @drlizherrieven.bsky.social · 18d

A couple of things to get off my chest……

1) there’s no evidence of a link between paracetamol (the safest painkiller for pregnant parents and babies to take) and autism.

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 19d

Today the cult leaders will claim to have figured out the cause of autism, and it'll be acetaminophen (Tylenol).

Here's an enormous study on this very correlation with stringent methodology and a sample size of 2.4 million children.

TL;DR - There's no link

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Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability

This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

jamanetwork.com

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 18d

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT:

“The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 18d

This MAGA/MAHA/Trump/RFK Jr/Dr Oz/Dr Bhattacharya press conference right now is quite possibly the worst press conference—from the viewpoints of medicine, public health, & medical ethics—that I’ve ever seen. These men are so shameless & deeply irresponsible. Wherever happened to science & evidence?

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 18d

On that leucovorin-autism nonsense being pushed by the White House and HHS today: Our science editor
@ejwillingham.bsky.social
"fears promoting leucovorin as a treatment for autism is similar to how some touted ivermectin as a COVID-19 antidote." In @usatoday.com:

www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

What is leucovorin? Researchers mixed on Trump, RFK Jr.'s potential answer to autism

Trump administration officials are expected to discuss a medication called leucovorin as a potential treatment for autism.

www.usatoday.com

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Keri Crewson, M.D. @kericrewsonmd.medsky.social · 18d

From Muppet History.

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Shannon Rosa @shannonrosa.bsky.social · 18d

"People who received a different diagnosis or no diagnosis in prior generations now have an autism diagnosis, said Ari Ne’eman, an assistant professor of health policy and management at Harvard.

"That’s not an epidemic—it’s better understanding of a disability that’s likely always existed."

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 18d

On that leucovorin-autism nonsense being pushed by the White House and HHS today: Our science editor
@ejwillingham.bsky.social
"fears promoting leucovorin as a treatment for autism is similar to how some touted ivermectin as a COVID-19 antidote." In @usatoday.com:

www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

What is leucovorin? Researchers mixed on Trump, RFK Jr.'s potential answer to autism

Trump administration officials are expected to discuss a medication called leucovorin as a potential treatment for autism.

www.usatoday.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18d

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 18d

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 18d

You have no idea how much I despite these anti-science dipshits for making pregnant women terrified of taking (safe, mild, proven) pain relief.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 18d

Pictured - a large group of antifa on their way to commit severe acts of property damage

WWII soldiers storming the beach at Normandy. They were anti-fascists, or the OG antifa

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 18d

Things today's White House autism announcement did not do:

-Discuss strategies to increase supports and services for autistic people/families
-Highlight why autistic people and families deserve respect, not pity or fear
-Endorse one speck of autism research that is not dangerous pseudoscience

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ACOG @acog.org · 18d

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

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