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Ann Steck, MD

@asteckmd.bsky.social
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Rural Family Medicine. Mommy. Blue dot in a red state. 🏳️‍🌈Ally. She/her.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
CDC ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging. “The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” a spokesperson said, echoing a line from a recent editorial RFK Jr. wrote
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.
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Claudia Koerner @claudiakoerner.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/02/2025
Joann, the fabrics and crafts retailer that has supplied quilters, seamstresses and school projects for 80 years, announced that it would close down all of its stores in the latest chapter of financial tumult for the company.
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Joann, 80-Year-Old Crafts and Fabrics Retailer, Will Close All Stores
The announcement that the chain would close all 800 of its stores in 49 states comes after a period of financial turmoil.
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Ann Steck, MD @asteckmd.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Looks delicious! 😋
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) makes recommendations that determine access to vaccines in the US. The ACIP meeting scheduled for next week is now delayed. This is how RFK Jr will administratively destroy vaccination programs. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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A CDC vaccine committee meeting, the first of Kennedy's tenure at HHS, gets postponed
An HHS spokesperson didn’t say when the meeting would be rescheduled.
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Lauren @laur705.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So ProPublica Did #ReproSky 🩺 🛟
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is how ‘Dr.’ Death is going destroy vaccine programs and make vaccines unaffordable to most. “Insurance companies are mandated to cover recommended vaccines; however, if the CDC and ACIP don't make a recommendation for a new vaccine, insurers have the autonomy to decide whether to cover them.”
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A CDC vaccine committee meeting, the first of Kennedy's tenure at HHS, gets postponed
An HHS spokesperson didn’t say when the meeting would be rescheduled.
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Ken Milne MD @thesgem.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I've been asked by a number of my #MedSky American friends about moving to Canada. dialogue.cpso.on.ca/articles/rem...
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Reminder: American Board-Certified Doctors Exempt from CFPC/RCPSC Certification | Dialogue - CPSO's Publication for Ontario Doctors
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 06/02/2025
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Salena @salena.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Photo of two boys - one vaccinated against smallpox, the other not - published in 1901 by Dr. Allan Warner. Smallpox killed over half a billion people in the 20th century alone. On 8 May 1980, the WHO announced its eradication, which was achieved through #vaccines, surveillance, and containment.
A black and white photo of two young boys. One is covered in the tell-tale pustules of smallpox while the other boy is not. This photo is courtesy of the Dr. Jenner House Museum.
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Ann Steck, MD @asteckmd.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Same, Batman. Same.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
About a million people die every year due to antimicrobial resistance. Causes: - Excessive and inappropriate use of antibiotics - 70% of antibiotics are given to livestock - No financial incentive to develop new antibiotics - no new antibiotic classes since 1980 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Antibiotic emergency ‘could claim 40 million lives in next 25 years’
As superbugs spread across the globe, death rates from antimicrobial resistance are set to double, says England’s former chief medical officer
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣
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Ann Steck, MD @asteckmd.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
These are fantastic!
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NPR @npr.org · 14/12/2024
Glenn Miller was the swing era's biggest star. Then, he vanished without a trace.
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80 years later, Glenn Miller's sudden disappearance remains unsolved
Glenn Miller was the swing era's biggest star. Then, he vanished without a trace.
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Ann Steck, MD @asteckmd.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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Ohio Senate passes measure forcing hospitals to administer ivermectin, other patient-requested treatments
The Ohio state Senate passed a bill earlier this week that will allow patients to force hospitals to administer drugs for off-label use.   The passage of the bill comes after a years-long effo…
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while. So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet? Story here, 🧵 to come: 🧪#IDSky
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Why hasn’t the bird flu pandemic started?
Some scientists examining mutations found in H5N1 viruses fear major outbreak is imminent but others says pathogen remains unpredictable
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Andy Conway Morris @andymoz78.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Talking of Bier, @orthopodreg.bsky.social the story of how he developed spinal anaesthesia is pretty wild A story of cocaine, cigars, and German army helmets. #AnSky #MedSky #HistoryMedSky
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a baby rhino is playing with snow in a zoo enclosure .
Alt: a baby rhino is playing with snow in a zoo enclosure .
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Private insurance defenders, do you really believe that 1/3 of healthcare claims are for unnecessary or fraudulent things?
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today about Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for young people. This is not a both-sides story. One side is right and the other is dangerously wrong. Nazis were the first people to try to destroy trans health care. @bschillace.brandyschillace.com (1/n)
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The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic
The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology
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Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments tomorrow about Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care. One topic is likely to take center stage: detransition. The court needs to consider this topic with the nuance it deserves. The latest via my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jackturb...
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How The Supreme Court Should Think about Detransition
The court needs to keep in mind that all medical treatments have risks, benefits, and side effects.
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Ann Steck, MD @asteckmd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Best of luck! Sending you all the positive vibes.
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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Important to understand the well from which these conspiracies have sprung, we are soon be awash in them once again 👇👇👇
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Alan Drummond MD @dralandrummond.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Here's where the primary care crisis is hitting Ontario hardest Data show millions of Ontarians without family doctors — and many more potentially on the way www.thetrillium.ca/news/health/...
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Here's where the primary care crisis is hitting Ontario hardest
Data show millions of Ontarians without family doctors — and many more potentially on the way
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 28/11/2024
It’s a wonderful day to be grateful for vaccines! A reminder the HPV vaccine has nearly completely wiped out cervical cancer in Scotland
Invasive cervical cancer incidence following bivalent human papillomavirus vaccination: a population-based observational study of age at immunization, dose, and deprivation

Tim J Palmer, FRCPath & Kimberley Kavanagh, PhD, Kate Cuschieri, PhD, Ross Cameron, MPH, Catriona Graham, MSc, Allan Wilson, FIBMS, Kirsty Roy, PhD
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Volume 116, Issue 6, June 2024, Pages 857-865, https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djad263
Published: 22 January 2024
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 27/11/2024
Isn't science amazing...?
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Ben Stein is a conservative economist. He reshot this scene during Trump 1.0 on behalf of the National Retail Federation to point out how damaging tariffs are. nrf.com/blog/anyone-...
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Anyone know if tariffs work? Anyone … anyone?
NRF's new ad campaign features Ben Stein from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
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Ann Steck, MD @asteckmd.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy Thanksgiving to you, Mr. Dowd. You are a treasure.
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josh farkas 💊 @pulmcrit.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Skytorial: Five pearls on olanzapine 😁 Between agitation and nausea/vomiting, olanzapine has a wide range of use. Olanzapine is generally not a front-line agent (e.g., haloperidol or ondansetron often are). But sometimes, it really comes in clutch....
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a man in a plaid shirt sits at a picnic table with the words " settle down " on the bottom
ALT: a man in a plaid shirt sits at a picnic table with the words " settle down " on the bottom
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Word of the day is ‘sequaciousness’ (16th century): the slavish and reckless following of another person in matters of thought or opinion.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Study finds elected Italian female mayors are 3x more likely to experience a violent attack than their male equivalents. Attacks on women in politics are designed as a signal to all women to stay out of politics and public life. @giammacco.bsky.social theconversation.com/why-are-fema...
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Why are female politicians more often targeted with violence? New findings confirm depressing suspicions
A study of Italian mayors made it possible to compare the experiences of politicians with identical characteristics other than their gender.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
“globally, the most dangerous place for a woman to be was in her home, where the majority of women die at the hands of men” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
Of the 85,000 women killed by men in 2023, 60% died at the hands of a partner or family member, new UN figures show
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 26/11/2024
“Seventy-six per cent of respondents said that they could no longer treat patients in accordance with evidence-based medicine. Twenty-one per cent said that they were either considering leaving the state or already planning to do so; thirteen per cent had decided to retire early.” +
A report released last month by Manatt Health, a health-care consultancy based in Los Angeles, confirmed Brown's fears.
Manatt surveyed hundreds of ob-gyns in Texas to examine the impact of abortion bans. Seventy-six per cent of respondents said that they could no longer treat patients in accordance with evidence-based medicine. Twenty-one per cent said that they were either considering leaving the state or already planning to do so; thirteen per cent had decided to retire early. The report found
"historic and worsening shortages" of ob-gyns, which "disproportionately impact rural and economically disadvantaged communities." As in the
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Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights @ohioreprorights.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Check out the #StopProject2025 toolkit at AU.org/project2025
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Project 2025: The Christian Nationalist plan to take over America
Project 2025 is real. They wrote it down. It has a website. And Project 2025 will affect you, your family, friends and communities. Just look at what’s happening to Gabe and Liz Rutan-Ram.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25/11/2024
Texas teachers are quitting at a rate that’s 25 percent above the national average. In Tennessee, the vacancy rate for all public schools is 5.5 percent, compared to a national average of 4 percent. From @timothynoah.bsky.social November 2023: newrepublic.com/article/1768...
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The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.
As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers—physicians, teachers, professors, and more—are packing their bags.
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 21/11/2024
How to make friends with a hematologist Chapter 1 1. Order a peripheral smear before they ask 2. Never get a CBC without a diff 3. Stop the heparin before you call for a HIT consult 4. NEVER order MTHFR 5. Order a reticulocyte count before you consult for anemia
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a man in a striped shirt is talking to another man and says did we just become best friends ?
Alt: a man in a striped shirt is talking to another man and says did we just become best friends ?
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 20/11/2024
We’ve all been under a lot of stress lately. But did you know that stress affects blood coagulation? If you didn’t before prepare to now with another #hemesky #skeetorial 1/
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a man says you look pretty stressed in a showtime ad
Alt: a man says you look pretty stressed in a showtime ad
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” - James Baldwin
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
And yes, this study demonstrated a causal link
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Naomi Beinart, 16: "We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman...Where the body I haven’t fully grown into may no longer be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me, just woke up on a Wednesday."
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Opinion | I’m 16. On Nov. 5 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft.
On the day after the election, it seemed boys and girls woke to a new reality.
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