Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

'Some intensive care units in England had been so overwhelmed that staff had had to put dead bodies in clear plastic refuse sacks after running out of body bags, and then immediately put another Covid patient in that person’s bed, Fong said.'

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/26/future-pandemic-as-big-as-covid-is-inevitable-says-whitty

'In addition to deaths immediately caused by the violence, some civilians die of the spread of infectious diseases, starvation or lack of access to health care. In February, Jamaluddine and her colleagues used modelling to make projections of excess deaths due to the war and found that, in a continued scenario of six months of escalated conflict, 68,650 people could die from traumatic injuries, 2,680 from non-communicable diseases such as cancer and 2,720 from infectious diseases — along with thousands more if an epidemic were to break out. On 30 July, the ministry declared a polio epidemic in Gaza after detecting the virus in sewage samples, and in mid-August it confirmed the first case of polio in 25 years, in a 10-month-old baby.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02508-0?ref=thebrowser.com

'Remission rates for patients with some forms of blood cancers treated with CAR T-cell therapy can exceed 80 per cent. But it is certainly not a miracle treatment for all forms of cancer. Biology is messy, the quality of cell therapies variable and the treatment does not work on all patients. And, despite its life-saving promise, cell therapy suffers one additional serious drawback: its cost. Emily’s cell therapy cost $473,000, putting it beyond the reach of all but the richest or best-insured. Thousands of patients who could be cured of various diseases are dying because of supply constraints. “Science is outstripping our ability to manufacture,” says June.'
#Immunology #Immunotherapy #CARTcell
https://www.ft.com/content/626007c4-9127-4682-9dab-154b32434029

'The new drug, Cobenfy, also influences dopamine levels, but it does so indirectly, by changing levels of another neurotransmitter, acetylcholine. The new approach, researchers hope, will address some of the most intractable aspects of the disease, like lack of motivation and inability to feel pleasure'

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/health/fda-schizophrenia-drug.html

'Quanto à competitividade das nossas instituições, tem de ser feito um grande esforço para que estas estejam bem equipadas e disponham de infraestruturas modernas que permitam aos investigadores fazer ciência de qualidade.'

https://www.publico.pt/2024/09/27/ciencia/opiniao/investir-inovacao-desenvolvimento-europa-competitiva-2105560

“What we’ve seen in Gaza is entire families just being completely wiped out,” says Tripp. That means it can be hard to recover bodies, or there is no one to report them dead, and so deceased people will be missed in counts.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02508-0?ref=thebrowser.com