Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

In *2016*

"In short, medical students held unsubstantiated beliefs about anatomical and physiological differences between supposed “races.” Many of these students thought that Black skin was thicker than white, that Black individuals age more slowly than white, and that Black nerve endings were less sensitive than white."

https://nautil.us/the-misguided-history-of-racial-medicine-263508/?_sp=227fdb16-8a0a-4bd1-8c56-d52560f844ef.1677578073256

"The brain is three pounds of stuff. You can lay it on a table and probe it. But this sensation of consciousness is a subjective experience. There is a gap between the objective and subjective that makes it very difficult to understand how consciousness emerges from the material brain. I don’t have any answers, and I think philosophers and neuroscientists don’t yet have answers either. It’s really one of the most interesting fundamental questions in science."

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/does-a-final-theory-exist-a-conversation-with-alan-lightman/

"Although we expect irrational behaviour and lapses of judgment from Alzheimer’s patients, we’re often puzzled by the baffling behaviour of caregivers themselves, many of whom mirror the denial, resistance, distortions, irrationality and cognitive lapses of the people they’re caring for."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/28/dinner-with-proust-how-alzheimers-caregivers-are-pulled-into-their-patients-worlds

"(...) the size and composition of the reviewer pool has not kept pace, say editors, because journals often favour well-known scientists from countries with established science infrastructures, rather than early-career researchers or scientists from emerging science nations."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00403-8

Technical language

'Mental-health care is “a shitstorm,” Thomas Insel, a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, told me. “Nobody likes what they get. Nobody is happy with what they give. It’s a complete mess.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/can-ai-treat-mental-illness

'Meloni’s government has actively sabotaged the NGO-led search and rescue missions attempting to save lives at sea. Under her government’s new legislation, boats that have rescued migrants onboard cannot remain at sea to continue their mission. They must go to assigned ports based in northern Italy by Italian authorities, days of sailing away from the main theatre of operations. This has resulted in a drastic reduction of the time the vessels can engage in saving lives, and surely a corresponding increase in the death rate.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/27/giorgia-meloni-eu-migrant-shipwreck-cruel-legal-greece-balkans

'Three days before Christmas, the only hospital in this remote city on the Yakama Indian Reservation abruptly closed its maternity unit without consulting the community, the doctors who delivered babies there or even its own board.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/health/rural-hospitals-pregnancy-childbirth.html

Review on HIF and stromal-tumor interactions by Missiaen et al @embojournal

"In this review, we discuss how HIF-mediated mechanisms control nutrient sensing and availability in the TME, the competition for nutrients, and the metabolic cross-talk between tumor and stromal cells."

https://www.embopress.org/doi/abs/10.15252/embj.2022112067