Every HIV cure case is a natural experiment.
They tell us where the virus hides, what it takes to eliminate it
and which pathways are worth targeting. HSCT is not the answer for the millions living with HIV but the biology behind these cures might be.
A new HIV cure case has just been reported. A patient in Oslo has achieved long-term HIV remission after a stem cell transplant from a sibling donor with a rare genetic mutation (CCR5Δ32/Δ32).
This is now one of only a handful of documented cases worldwide.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is a comprehensive investigation of patent abuse of a Keytruda & the best I've ever seen patent data visualisation of evergreening practices and the resulting thicket until 2046 - another extra twenty years of patent monopoly right
h/t @clancyny.bsky.social
I hope more people focus on the import of this turnout last year. Not least bc standing up to bigotry can itself be a rallying cry.
Tonight I'm thinking of the many Hungarians I've met over the years - many of them abroad against their wishes, many of them queer - who haven't stopped fighting, for sixteen years. For most of us, Orbán was an on-and-off nuisance on TV - at best. For them, he was a constant nightmare.
don't let anyone say or imply modern fascism is unavoidable or unbeatable
these freaks lose all the time
Hospitals in Beirut struggle to deal with casualties after Israeli attacks
Hospitals in Beirut struggle to deal with casualties after Israeli attacks https://aje.news/l5m86y
Not so long ago, when Russia was targeting hospitals in Syria, that it was widely denounced as a war crime.
*Medicine Under Attack: Witnessing Humanitarian Medicine Before and After the ‘Ceasefire'*
*Prof Martin Griffiths* - Trauma Surgeon
*Dr Ebraheem Matar* - Gazan Doctor
*Mr Yassar Qureshi* - Surgeon
🗓️Thurs 16th April
🕡 6pm - 8pm (UK)
🏫In person and 💻online
www.eventbrite.com/e/medicine-u...
Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.
The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.
Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
New community-based research conducted in the east London borough of Tower Hamlets highlights on-going and pressing needs.
We call for the implementation of key recommendations to improve the health and well-being of trans communities by a range of stakeholders.
www.thelovetank.info/news/tna
U.S. Considers Withholding H.I.V. Aid Unless Zambia Expands Minerals Access A draft State Department memo outlines ways the Trump administration may ratchet up pressure on the African country by ending health support “on a massive scale.”
“The State Department is considering withholding lifesaving assistance to people with H.I.V. in Zambia as a negotiating tactic to force the government of the southern African country to sign a deal giving the United States more access to its critical minerals”
Extractive, colonial, & depraved
1/2
Israel's attack, echoing similar carnage it wrought in Gaza, kills doctors, paramedics and nurses who were on duty.
“She’s the exception, I am the rule.”
Such articulate cutting through of the nonsense around puberty blockers and eg Keira Bell’s detransitioning from Stephanie Lynnette on GMB this morning. It is also a refreshing relief to see a trans person actually being allowed to speak for once!
A new report and survey of trans people reports that 99% of them have had their mental health negatively affected by the barrage of anti trans stories in the UK media. 64% avoided medical care due to discrimination. This is a crisis.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Really necessary set of essay about this moment:
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47192
The US and Israel are bombing Iran. Anyone reporting it as “preventive” is engaging in propaganda, by definition. There is no interpretation of what’s happening as anything else than a crime.
You don’t have to like the Iranian regime to understand why this is bad.
My new article "Kant as Methodology: Race, White Ignorance, and Intellectual Responsibility" is now out in Critical Philosophy of Race (Penn State University Press).
Open Access copy here: jasminekgani.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
(summary of core arguments in thread below)
@lseir.bsky.social
Israel is a top 10 global arms exporter. In 2024 arms exports rose to $14.9 billion, with 54% of those purchases made by Europe (MOD data). The UK spends millions of pounds each year on “battle-tested” arms from Israeli companies.
This 👇 is what "battle-tested means".
Having built my career on trying to get IR and global health to talk to each other, I am so up for joining @jocalynclark.bsky.social and the team @bmj.com as a guest editor of a new series on Global Health Geopolitics!
Read & share Call for Papers published in The BMJ: www.bmj.com/content/392/...
*Medicine Under Attack: Testimonies from Gaza*
Dr Guy Shalev - Physicians for Human Rights Israel
Dr Said Eid - Recent graduate from AlAzhar Medical School, Gaza
📅Tue 10th Feb
⏰6.15pm-8pm GMT
📍Arts Two Lecture Theatre, QMUL
*In person and online*
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1980939912...
After many, including Joe Biden, challenged the Gaza health ministry's death toll, The IDF finally accepts its toll of over 71,000 killed in direct result of war, not including those still buried under rubble and those killed from indirect impact. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
Minneapolis says no to ICE.
Two weeks left to apply for a postdoc position on my project!
I'm looking for historians, anthropologists, STS and Global Health researchers with a broad interest in #Brazil, #rural populations, #health, #medicine, and #zoonosis.
For more information👇
Despite yesterday’s clumsy face saving attempts from HHS: the unethical baby-liver-disease-spreading clinical trial funded by US govt will NOT go forward—latest from @melodyschreiber.com
Just empire doing empire things
Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.
These evil, spiteful ghouls thought they’d score an awesome Supreme Court victory and then society would salute their bravery, and rise up to enforce their fucknut politics. That hasn’t happened and it won’t happen, so now society will be *forced* to comply in a blizzard of squillionaire litigation.
For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
