As a reminder, please contact your reps to get telemed permanently covered (current exp 9/30!!). It's a critical way to access care for homebound, far from specialists, or unable to arrange caregiving/time off to get the healthcare they need! #medsky #endosky www.ama-assn.org/practice-man...

www.facebook.com/AnnaAkana/vi... Amazing and hilarious summary of the actual evidence (no, seriously, studies are real, I've read most of them, including reasons for detransition). Pls share widely to both amuse and educate (mildly #nsfw due to language)! #endosky #medsky #transcareishealthcare

Great plenary by Fatima Stanford at #endo2025 : success in weight management of clinical obesity should be based on s/sx remission rather than measures of weight loss. @endocrinesociety.bsky.social

ALSO Nancy Cox @endocrinesociety.bsky.social during plenary at #endo2025 (Truncated) We have more sig + reproducible associations to common dz than ever imagined but never would have believed we would have so much discovery with so little understanding the driving biology #truth #endosky #medsky

Nancy Cox @endocrinesociety.bsky.social during plenary at #endo2025 Early (genetics) diagnosis is transformative - short circuiting diagnostic odyssey is so important, potential therapeutics #endosky #medsky

Inspiring plenary by Mark Caulfield at #endo2025 @endocrinesociety.bsky.social on how successes of 100k genome project-> Generation Study already saving 35 babies with rare dz dx! Reminder to contact your US reps re: funding (and reversing defunding!) of research saves lives! #endosky #medsky

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

We had a hint this would happen from the proposed rule a month ago. Please call your senators to fight back. Not having Medicaid and medicare covering GAC in *adults* would devastate patients most at risk #medsky #endosky www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

Beautifully written on why DEI matters in medicine (I am personally a good test-taker, one who is so aware of how much I benefited from learning from diverse colleagues in #medsky, beyond the textbooks!) www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

#medsky and everyone, pls comment on proposed policy change for #ACA, that reads in part: "prohibit issuers of coverage subject to EHB requirements from providing coverage for sex-trait modification as an EHB." targeting our #trans and #intersex patients www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

1. Today, powerful speeches from trans representatives in Montana SJ Howell and Zooey Zephyr flipped 29 Republicans, killing anti-trans bills. While some Dems like Newsom abandon trans people, these reps show the power of representation. Watch their speech. Subscribe to support our journalism.

This is the cruelest and most deadly decision of the administration so far. I don't know how people who supported these decisions and the people who made them can sleep at night. Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

Got me tearing up first thing in the morning.

Tonight's EO against youth GAHT is so much worse than we had feared. I go to USPATH and WPATH meetings, engage with the science and the symposia, and read the literature. GAHT is good science and medicine. This EO is going to hurt, even kill, kids #medsky #endosky www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

Reminder to not get distracted by theatre and keep doing the good things! Today's task: comment on proposed CMS change to get insulin down to $35/month or cheaper starting each new year (without deductible!!) and full GLP1a coverage for obesity #medsky #endosky www.regulations.gov/document/CMS...

Remember fellow #medsky to not be an unwilling accomplice! Gift article courtesy of another physician www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...

Yet ammo in my fight to rehabilitate the undeserved bad reputation of bisphosphonates! zoledronic acid 5 mg q5 years decreased risk of fractures and reduced bone density loss in essentially normal BMD 50-60 yo women! #endosky www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

As of 12/18/2024, the House passed a short term bill to keep COVID-era #telemed expansions (which covers video visits with all your doctors etc) until 3/31/2025 (initially set to expire 12/31/2024!!!), please keep talking to your reps as we still need action to keep it after March! #medsky #endosky

This! Also, amazing virtual resources, I do a ton of ebooks!

Does this mean we can officially declare hair loss a #dermsky issue instead of #endosky issue? Neat paper from #derm and #jama ! #medsky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Congrats, new #endocrine fellows! #endosky welcomes you to our passionate and nerdy community! A virtual care package for you all of mango-strawberry muffins, vanilla tea cakes with strawberry centers, banana bread crisps, and walnut cookies! ;)

Perhaps more of the legacy media should have pushed back on his lies at the time. @democracydocket.com did.

Just after #transgenderdayofremembrance , it is upsetting that the *rumor* of a trans athlete at SJSU volleyball has led to this level of vitriol (wapo.st/410fYk2) As an endocrinologist, the claims of clear superior athleticism in transfemale athletes are NOT backed by science #endosky #medsky

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance—a day honoring trans people who’ve died from anti-trans violence. Too often, their stories are erased. I’m proud to be an original cosponsor designating Nov. 20th as Transgender Day of Remembrance & stands against violence. We won’t forget you.

I don't know if this will do anything but maybe the more moderate senators and Congressfolks can stymie the 🦆-fication of healthcare! (Also, #endosky, we should work on one for Dr. Oz!) #medsky committeetoprotect.org/stop-rfk-jr/

This month, #FDA added to the rx label for all glp1a (and gip/glpa), warning for risk of pulm aspiration, despite new guidance from GI/OM/ASA orgs walking back 2023 #anesthesia global rec to hold a dose before planned procedure gastro.org/news/most-pa.... Thoughts? #medsky

If you are still struggling over what the election means to healthcare, you are not alone (50% of patients I saw today were scared, from TGD to T1DM... Remember preACA preexisting exclusions?), please take the time to write congress about continuing universal telemed coverage! #medsky (1/5)