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    We need to reframe the approach to decolonising global health by centring the Global South as primary actor and leader, writes Muneera Rasheed Calls to decolonise global health and tackle historic and systemic injustices in the field have intensified in recent years, but sometimes the way the argument is presented can be counterproductive. For those of us in the Global South, the discourse can make us feel that our experiences are invalid. We are often portrayed as helpless and needing to be rescued,1 not by white saviours as in the past, but by well meaning actors in the Global North who are themselves struggling with the legacy of white supremacy, such as racism. This portrayal oversimplifies the power dynamics in the Global South. An essential element of coloniality is that it reproduces itself in colonised countries in the Global South by using incentives—such as granting access to the decision makers in coloniser countries in the Global North. The current discourse overlooks this

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    I.M. Physician Toolkit We are Leaders, Experts, Connectors, and Detectors. Use the resources below to help spread the word about internal medicine, and celebrate our profession.

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    Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Do Pandemics Ever End?

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    Between 95 000 and 167 000 patients are estimated to have caught covid-19 in England’s hospitals during the second wave of the pandemic while being treated for other problems. A study reported in Nature used data from 356 English hospitals, representing almost all NHS general and acute care beds, to calculate the extent of transmission between June 2020 and March 2021.1 Using mathematical modelling it concluded that between 1% and 2% of all patients admitted during this period were likely to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 in hospital. They then became the main source of transmission to other patients. The highest rates of transmission were seen in the north west of England and the lowest in the south west …

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    Recent evidence suggests that the interaction between the tumor microenvironment (TME) and systemic host environment can alter the host immune system to promote anti-tumor activity. Here, we investigated whether glomerular immune injury affects cancer progression. We used nephrotoxic serum nephritis (NTN), a model for glomerular immune injury, and followed it by cancer cell implantation. NTS-injected mice developed smaller primary tumors compared with controls. Tumors of NTS-injected mice had more activated CD8 T cells, suggesting a role for the immune system in the anti-tumor phenotype. Using RNA-seq data, we identified transcriptomic alterations in the bone marrow following NTN. Moreover, using scRNA-seq of white blood cells following NTN we found these transcriptomic alterations were reflected in γδ T cells and neutrophils. This is the first study to show that glomerular immune injury changes the transcription of cells in the bone marrow to advance anti-tumor activity. Our study hig

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