Neither Words nor Images: Health Departments' and Hospitals' Use of Twitter During COVID-19 Had Limited Racial Representation and Content on Disparities Decreased Over Time.

Objective: To determine the degree to which hospitals and state health departments used written content or visual representation on social media to draw attention to racial disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Study Design: A retrospective analysis, using Twitter content (words and images) between May-June 2020 and May-June 2021 from organizations in the 5 states with the largest documented racial disparities in COVID-19-related mortality.

Main Outcomes: All tweets and retweets (n = 6790) were coded along several lines.

Australian Senate Committee Report on Transvaginal Mesh Devices.

On 28 March 2018 the Australian Senate Community Affairs References Committee issued its final report on transvaginal mesh devices. It found these devices have caused unnecessary physical and emotional pain and suffering to thousands of women who were not told by their doctors of the objective material risks associated with their use. The Senate Committee concurred with the description by the Public Health Association of Australia of the complications resulting from transvaginal mesh implants as constituting a serious public health issue requiring a response at both an individual and at a population level, including counselling, public education, clinical interventions and long-lasting protective mechanisms.