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Long post about Henrietta Lacks and HeLa cells
In 1951 scientists had long been looking for a way to grow and keep human cells separately from the body in order to conduct testing on them without running the risk of hurting someone. Until Henrietta, all samples taken from patients would die after being separated from the body.
Henrietta Lacks was a poor Black Woman born in Virginia. She eventually moved to Dundalk, Maryland with her husband, the two of them would eventually have 5 children together. Fourth months after giving birth to her youngest son, Henrietta was diagnosed with cervical cancer.
She received cancer treatment from Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, but would tragically die from her cancer in 1951. She was only 31 years old.
During the course of her treatment at Johns Hopkins, two tissue samples were taken from Henrietta without her knowledge or consent. At the time this was a standard practice.
The cancerous cells taken from Lacks would go on to become the first human immortalized cell line. They were nicknamed HeLa, after the first two letters of her first and last name.
Photos of HeLa cells^
Here's a list of some scientific developments that have been possible because of HeLa cells:
Polio vaccine
X-ray safety
Cancer research and treatment
HIV treatment
Single cell imaging
Learn more about the accomplishments of Henrietta's cells here
The story of HeLa cells is frequently debated in the scientific community on the grounds of ethics and racism. Would Henrietta have been treated differently by the medical community, and by history if she were a white woman?
Additionally, although Johns Hopkins did not profit off the use of HeLa cells, many other companies/people have made a lot of money with the use of her cells. Lacks' family recently settled a lawsuit regarding this. Since it was settled outside of court, the public is not privy to the details of the settlement.
Henrietta's case was not remotely ethical, and yet her cells have done so much good for humanity. The least we can do is pay homage to her name, and work to better and maintain ethical scientific practices.
#hela#HeLa#henrietta lacks#johns hopkins#science#biology#posts about things that interest me#ethics#racism in medicine#pinecone moment
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woc, please find yourself doctors, therapists and any other healthcare practitioners that come from a similar ethnic background to you - it's only been two sessions and i've had more breakthroughs about my intense PTSD in two weeks than I have in seven years.
#being able to vent about racism without it having to be explained as to why something was racist#indescribable relief#she just GOT it#i said my r-p1st called me exotic - and she knew exactly where i was coming from#i think i sobbed#and even if you can't get the same ethnic background as you - my therapist is desi#and i am egyptian-mexican but she completely understood#please don't underestimate medical racism#woc#woc experience#latina#latine#north african#poc#imazighen#mental health#therapy#racism in therapy#racism in medicine
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This month, in honor of Juneteenth, we're kicking off our Science Snapshots series with a post on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and its long-lasting effect on systemic inequality in medicine.
#juneteenth#racism in medicine#racism in science#diversity#Clinical Trials#tuskegee syphilis experiment#anyonecanscience#science writing
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Racial Bias in Medicine
Racial bias in medicine is still an issue, and $10 million in medical grants are meant to help fight it.
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is the legacy of one of America’s wealthiest women. Doris Duke, who passed in 1993 at the age of 80, was a tobacco heiress and an active socialite. During her life, she used her considerable wealth to preserve historical buildings and threatened heritage…
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#american academy of pediatrics#doris duke#doris duke charitable foundation#joseph wright#Medicine#racial bias#racism#racism in medicine
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#african/black experience#war on afrikans#terrorism#anti-Black medical care#body CAMs for medical personnel#protest#racial profiling#medical violence#racism in medicine
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An ob-gyn in Virginia performed unnecessary surgeries on patients for decades. He took their reproductive organs, gave them false cancer diagnoses, and did other terrible harm. When his victims learned the truth, they fought back. Issue no. 146, DAMAGES, is now available:
[Debra] requested her medical records and was stunned to find discrepancies with what Perwaiz had said to her during appointments. Most glaringly, she didn’t see any mention of precancerous cells on her cervix; the tests Perwaiz performed on her had come back normal. “If I was normal,” Debra said, “why did I have a surgery?”
There were other inconsistencies. One form from an appointment described Debra complaining of back and pelvic pain, which she told me she never did. Another document dated the day before her surgery stated that she “insisted on having those ovaries removed through the abdominal wall incision and not vaginally,” and that the “consent obtained after entirely counseling the patient [was] for abdominal hysterectomy.” In fact, she had requested the opposite surgical approach, and she recalled no such conversation with Perwaiz; the only time she’d spoken with him in the lead-up to her procedure was in passing in the hospital hallway.
Debra was sure she had a malpractice case. She went to several lawyers, but none of them would take her on as a client. “So many men—man after man saying, ‘You had a decent amount of care, and that’s all you’re afforded,’ ” she said. Frustrated, she came up with a new plan: “I said, ‘Alright, I’m going to learn how to sue this bastard myself.’ ”
#atavist journalism healthcare medicine doctors medicalmalpractice reproductivehealth racism justice virginia truestory#cancer women womenshealth history
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Imagine your child has broken a bone. You head to the emergency department, but the doctors won't prescribe painkillers. This scenario is one that children of color in the U.S. are more likely to face than their white peers, according to new findings published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.
Researchers reviewed dozens of recent studies looking at the quality of care children receive across a wide spectrum of pediatric specialties. The inequities are widespread, says Nia Heard-Garris, a researcher at Northwestern University and a pediatrician at Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, who oversaw the review.
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Help Define the Gap for Women of Color on the Autoimmune Journey to Diagnosis
How many years did it take before you discovered you had an autoimmune disease? Was it one year, two years, ten years? How many doctors and specialists did you visit? Do you yet have a diagnosis? Did race play a role in the process? Share your journey with ARNet and help define the gap.
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"In cities across the country, people of color, many of them low income, live in neighborhoods criss-crossed by major thoroughfares and highways.
The housing there is often cheaper — it’s not considered particularly desirable to wake up amid traffic fumes and fall asleep to the rumble of vehicles over asphalt.
But the price of living there is steep: Exhaust from all those cars and trucks leads to higher rates of childhood asthma, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and pulmonary ailments. Many people die younger than they otherwise would have, and the medical costs and time lost to illness contributes to their poverty.
Imagine if none of those cars and trucks emitted any fumes at all, running instead on an electric charge. That would make a staggering difference in the trajectory, quality, and length of millions of lives, particularly those of young people growing up near freeways and other sources of air pollution, according to a study from the American Lung Association.
The study, released [February 28, 2024], found that a widespread transition to EVs could avoid nearly 3 million asthma attacks and hundreds of infant deaths, in addition to millions of lower and upper respiratory ailments...
Prior research by the American Lung Association found that 120 million people in the U.S. breathe unhealthy air daily, and 72 million live near a major trucking route — though, Barret added, there’s no safe threshold for air pollution. It affects everyone.
Bipartisan efforts to strengthen clean air standards have already made a difference across the country. In California, which, under the Clean Air Act, can set state rules stronger than national standards, 100 percent of new cars sold there must be zero emission by 2035.
[Note: The article doesn't explain this, but that is actually a much bigger deal than just California. Basically, due to historically extra terrible pollution, California is the only state that's allowed to allowed to set stronger emissions rules than the US government sets. However, one of the rules in the Clean Air Act is that any other state can choose to follow California's standards instead of the US government's. And California by itself is the world's fifth largest economy - ahead of all but four countries. California has a lot of buying power. So, between those two things, when California sets stricter standards for cars, the effects ripple outward massively, far beyond the state's borders.]
Truck manufacturers are, according to the state’s Air Resources Board, already exceeding anticipated zero-emissions truck sales, putting them two years ahead of schedule...
Other states have begun to take action, too, often reaching across partisan lines to do so. Maryland, Colorado, New Mexico, and Rhode Island adopted zero-emissions standards as of the end of 2023.
The Biden administration is taking similar steps, though it has slowed its progress after automakers and United Auto Workers pressured the administration to relax some of its more stringent EV transition requirements.
While Barret finds efforts to support the electrification of passenger vehicles exciting, he said the greatest culprits are diesel trucks. “These are 5 to 10 percent of the vehicles on the road, but they’re generating the majority of smog-forming emissions of ozone and nitrogen,” Barret said...
Lately, there’s been significant progress on truck decarbonization. The Biden administration has made promises to ensure that 30 percent of all big rigs sold are electric by 2030...
Such measures, combined with an increase in public EV charging stations, vehicle tax credits, and other incentives, could change American highways, not to mention health, for good."
-via GoodGoodGood, February 28, 2024
#asthma#asthma attack#medical news#pollution#air pollution#ev#evs#environmental racism#good news#hope#auto industry#auto news#public health#medicine
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insane how anthropology majors will have entire classes about how biological race isn't a thing and here's why but it's still very much a social construct and impacts peoples day to day lives and that needs to be acknowledged. also race based science is a fucking lie and a load of horseshit made by eugenicists to try and kill off everyone they didnt like.
and then you look at people in medical school who still believe that black people have denser muscles because of a study that hasn't been updated in a hundred years and absolutely refuse to interact with social sciences on this issue
anyway congrats to the american pediatrics association for finally saying they're no longer doing race based medicine this past summer. hopefully other organizations will follow soon
#its me im anthropology majors#this is a gross understatement of what we talk about in that class but race based medicine has been our topic#the last week and a half or so so yknow its on the mind#i realize this is also bonkers to post right after pop boy idol school but eh i've been meaning to post this for a while now#anyway there is no biological race and any differences that show up in charts can almost always#be attributed to social class instead and how black people are more likely to be poor and develop certain conditions#because of institutional racism. not because of anything inherent bc of their skin color#shay speaks#eugenics //#racism //
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Microaggressions in therapy 🙃
#'allegedly you were r4p3d' There is no allegedly about it!!!#woc#woc experience#'verbally aggressive' to who? i can't even confront a restaurant about giving us napkins when i'm out to eat#and my all time favorite 'She is Egyptian Mexican which means she is Polynesian' MA'AM DID YOU FAIL GEOGRAPHY? NORTH AFRICA LATIN AMERICA ??#so we homogenised brown people#added some spicy latina aggressive arab stereotypes#and then decided to dismiss the r4p3 I was severely traumatised#racism#racism in medicine#racism in therapy#i only found out reading her notes she'd added all of this which was never stated by me at all and blatantly misrepresented me#her being a white woman therapy coordinator#i'm exhausted.
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From hero to villain, activists have rewritten the narrative surrounding Dr. James Marion Sims. Discover the shocking reality behind the so-called “father of gynecology” and his inhumane treatment of enslaved African American women.
#monuments#statue#racism#African American#gynecology#medicine#United States#anesthetic#ancient#history#ancient origins
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Lol retard imagine thinking anyone cares about you're retarded monkey ass culture that gave the world such innovations as the "Brazilian butt lift". Imagine living in a "country" renowned for its tranny prostitutes
If we're monkeys we're some damn smart monkeys, seeing as we've invented
Chest photofluorography for screening for tuberculosis
The Jatene procedure for arterial switch operation (a type of open heart surgery)
The first scorpion and spider antivenoms (in 1908 and 1925)
Caller ID
The wristwatch
Phone cards for payphones
Voting machines
Radiography (x-ray images)
Rice strainer
The Kinect for X-Box
3D cinema
The artificial heart
The most green light bulb in history
Havaianas flip flops
Automatic transmission
Typewriters
The solar bottle bulb
The first radio transmission
Two kinds of martial art (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Capoeira)
The portable stereo cassette player
The Walkman
Hot air balloons
The first plane able to do unaided takeoff and flight (the Wright brother's plane needed a catapult)
Brain-Machine Interfaces
and discovered
The pathogen, vector, host, clinical manifestations and epidemiology for Chagas disease
The pathogen for epidemic typhus
The disease cycle for bilharzia
What about you? what have you invented?
Or are you not as smart as us monkeys?
#brazil#inventions#medicine#racism#bigotry#racial slurs#brazilian inventions#the walkman#radio#wristwatch#airplane#anti venom#caller id#did you know#little known fact#wright brothers#try again#latino america#latin america#south america
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In case Y'all didn't know, now you know. RIP Sister!
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