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K McMillan

@katiedmcmillan

Femtech researcher, women’s rights advocate, start up consultant, health tech journalist. Always reading and drinking hot tea.

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Why don’t more cookies come in tubes like Pringles?

05.05.2025 00:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Quiet Defunding of Care What Title X Tells Us About Who Deserves Health

Good piece about bad news

open.substack.com/pub/femmehea...

13.04.2025 14:06 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Today is planned to the minute. Worked from 6-10am. I now have 50 minutes for a walk and shower. Calls from 11-12:30. Lunch then life stuff.

28.03.2025 14:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Sister Gadget” is leveraging health tech to take care of nuns around the world Forget everything you believed about seniors and tech adoption. With the right tools and a compassionate touch, technology can significantly improve the lives of our elderly population.

dhinsights.org/blog/sister-...

23.03.2025 21:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Meet the health tech trailblazers from Inc.'s Female Founder 500 Meet the visionary women making Inc.'s Female Founder 500, whose innovations are transforming healthcare accessibility and equity.

My latest piece! Celebrating the health tech founders who made the Inc. Female Founder 500 list!

dhinsights.org/blog/meet-th...

17.03.2025 16:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is there anything worse than IVF radio commercials? The preying on women’s emotions 😡

17.03.2025 13:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I paid $6.29 for a dozen eggs at ALDI.

16.03.2025 12:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m trying to reduce my Amazon usage and Target is the closest shopping option to my house. I hate Walmart. Anyone have other alternatives?

05.03.2025 16:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A 40-day Target boycott starts today. It couldn’t come at a worse time for the company | CNN Business Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/b...

05.03.2025 16:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Tonight I went from making a plush unicorn talk to polishing an article on remote patient monitoring. She contains multitudes.

04.03.2025 01:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A note to the rest of the world’s democracies: please let us back into the cool nice kid club after this administration is over

02.03.2025 22:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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2025 Study section tracking

Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

24.02.2025 16:17 👍 367 🔁 290 💬 44 📌 22
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Pharrell Williams' Black Ambition offers $1M to underrepresented entrepreneurs The 2025 Black Ambition Prize Competition will award more than $1 million to early-stage underrepresented entrepreneurs innovating in healthcare, AI and technology.

We love to see it:

www.mobihealthnews.com/news/pharrel...

24.02.2025 23:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Updating your computer OS and re-logging in to all the apps and such is like a 5 hour endeavor

24.02.2025 18:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I read Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow over the course of a week. I don’t think I’ve ever highlighted so many passages. 11/10.

24.02.2025 13:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Oura ring gets so concerned when I lay in bed and read for an hour before I fall asleep.

21.02.2025 12:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The SAVE Act Could Stop Millions of Women From Voting. Here’s What You Need to Know The bill would make it harder for women, people of color, young voters, and other marginalized groups to register to vote.

First post, might as well make it feminist. Ladies, time to call your reps to fight against the SAVE act: www.glamour.com/story/save-a...

20.02.2025 14:27 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0