Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

'As a kid, Conan O’Brien even confessed to his father a concern about his tendency to worry. “My father, who I love, once said that if you agonize enough — he used the word ‘agonize,’ I’ll never forget — if you agonize long enough, eventually ideas will come.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/arts/television/conan-obrien.html

'Now, of course, I’ll point out that we’ve never really looked for flu in cattle before, and it’s conceivable that there have been outbreaks in cattle before that we just missed. But the cattle thing is something new, and new is bad, because we don’t know much about it. It’s very difficult to make predictions when we have no knowledge base that we’re acting on.'
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2405795

This one is for adults with primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer.

"This new approval is based on data from the Phase 3 NRG-GY018 trial, also known as KEYNOTE-868. Results reported last year in the New England Journal of Medicineshowed a 70% lower risk of disease progression when patients were treated with pembrolizumab and chemotherapy."
#Immunology #Immunotherapy #CheckpointInhibitor
https://www.cancerresearch.org/blog/june-2024/keytruda-receives-40th-fda-approval?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=LinkedIn&utm_campaign=CRI&utm_id=CRI

'The first, of course, is to read. It’s surprising how many people think they want to be writers but they don’t really like to read books… The second is to write, every day, whether you like it or not. Screw inspiration'
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/09/20/octavia-butler-advice-on-writing/

'Sutherland himself (who was Canadian) had been on an N.S.A. watch list from 1971 to 1973, at the request of the F.B.I., thanks to his antiwar activism. He seemed to never lose his interest in confronting power.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/movies/donald-sutherland-movies.html

'UK-based employees at the scientific publisher Springer Nature are taking strike action today in a dispute over pay. The move comes after negotiations broke down in April, with union representatives citing Springer Nature’s high profit margins as evidence of its ability to improve employees’ pay as they struggle with dramatic increases in the cost of living.'
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/springer-nature-staff-squeezed-by-cost-of-living-crisis-go-on-strike-over-pay/4019677.article

'Nestled under the technical title "Commercial Determinants of Non-Communicable Diseases in the WHO European region” is a clear and frank report on how the profit-motive leads to 2.7 million preventable deaths a year, in Europe alone.'
https://canadahealthwatch.ca/2024/06/20/the-who-says-corporate-greed-is-causing-millions-of-preventable-deaths