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Aspirin alleviates endothelial gap junction dysfunction through inhibition of NLRP3 inflammasome activation in LPS-induced vascular injury Xing Zhou , a Yanjiao Wu , a Lifeng Ye , a Yunting Wang…
I remember that day clearly, at a clinic for indigenous people. The doctor to whom I was speaking was a Pakistani, who was working in that remote location, fulfilling requirements…
FROM MONOCLE 2 MAY 2020 OUTPOST NEWS / ST KITTS AND NEVIS Life and breath The Caribbean island of St Kitts – formally known as St Christopher – was the…
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN MEDICINE THE ESSENTIAL QUALITIES NECESSARY I hold Medecins sans Frontieres in high esteem. It was founded in 1971 by Bernard Kouchner and a coterie of French doctors and…
She was only 28 from the Navajo Nation in Arizona, USA. Her partner, a police officer for the tribe, tested positive. She stayed at home to look after him. Her…
I have been thinking of Leticia on the Colombian Amazon, bordering with Tabatinga in Brasil as well as across the stream from Santa Rosa in Peru. I really want to…
We are in social isolation and the rhythm of life has changed. One of the advantages has been the time that has become available to read Scientific and Anthropological journals.…
NEJM or New England Journal of Medicine or when in context of a medical conversation truncated to New England, is the leading medical publishing house in the USA. We are…
The world-wide shut down has been observed to various degrees in different parts of the world. Israel was one of the first countries to shut down its borders, impose lockdown.…
101 nurses have left Cuba to assist Barbados in its fight against the Coronavirus. This brigade was unique in two ways. It was the first mission to Barbados from Cuba…
There is no visible symbol in the west that has been associated with another entire hemisphere such as the MASK. People stared at Japanese tourists politely had their masks on…
CUBAN MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO ANDORRA This morning I woke up to read the good news that Cuban Medical Brigade is in the tiny Pyrenean country of ANDORRA helping them with…