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Black medical student creates handbook to show hin Malone Mukwende, a second-year at St George's, University of London, wrote Mind the Gap, to help other medics recognise life-changing diseases, which present differently on darker skin.

Wonderful!

“Expected to open early next year, the center will serve the neighborhood's immigrant and refugee population regardless of their health insurance or citizenship status. The nonprofit Wyss Foundation donated $3.1 million to launch the center, which aims to reduce health disparity gaps among refugees and immigrants.”

Jefferson Health to open refugee wellness clinic at Bok building Wyss Foundation donates $3.1 million to launch center in South Philly

Fascinating read about the science of pain and Melzack’s crucial contributions. For those of us who have always known pain as a subject of study, this story of a shift in thinking is particularly enlightening.

Ronald Melzack, Cartographer of Pain, Is Dead at 90 The theory that he and a colleague devised deepened medicine’s understanding of pain and how it is best measured and treated.