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Jfredpinto
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Msc Public health. Physical therapist.
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Psoriatic arthritis is a common form of inflammatory arthritis, characterised by synovial inflammation.

In @thelancetrheum.bsky.social, a Review discusses improved understanding of psoriatic arthritis and future directions for research: spkl.io/63321AesqT
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Espero que a CNE possa ver que se está a passar na SIC e dar multa pesada a maria João marques e Bernardo ferrão. N pode valer tudo
October 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Fogos: Só três empresas de meios aéreos contrataram 177 milhões com o Estado www.publico.pt/2025/08/30/s...
Só três empresas de meios aéreos contrataram 177 milhões com o Estado para combater fogos
Este ano foram assinados 21 contratos com oito empresas, a maior parte dos quais com duração de três anos. Só para este ano custo estimado ultrapassa os 86,7 milhões de euros.
www.publico.pt
August 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Life expectancy gains are decelerating in 23 high-income countries
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
August 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Since the World Health Organisation declared mpox a “public-health emergency of international concern” a year ago, African countries have been hit the hardest. And cuts to foreign aid could make things even worse
How Sierra Leone beat back mpox
The country’s effective public-health messaging is a model for the rest of Africa
econ.st
August 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Lithium in the brain has been found to protect against cognitive decline

go.nature.com/46Fdfzb
Does lithium deficiency contribute to Alzheimer’s disease?
Lithium in the brain has been found to protect against cognitive decline. Restoring lost lithium could be a new angle from which to tackle Alzheimer’s disease.
go.nature.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Our brain-immune system axis has recently has some fascinating new reports
Here is one summarized
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
More here erictopol.substack.com/p/our-braini...
August 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
April 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
When Portugal is in an election period... A reminder what we are fighting for
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
open.substack.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Mais grave que a potencial disseminação viral, é a epidemia global da desinformação e do abandono do método científico que se espalha pelo mundo fora com consequências desastrosas
A gripe das aves é a candidata óbvia a próxima pandemia. Mas estamos preparados?
As ameaças à cooperação internacional e o “estado de negação” de parte dos Governos indicam uma falta de preparação para futuras pandemias. Cinco anos após a covid-19, as lições ficaram por aplicar.
www.publico.pt
March 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Here we go: the rewriting of history has formally begun

"Oklahoma proposes teaching standards suggesting 2020 election ‘discrepancies’"

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Oklahoma proposes teaching standards suggesting 2020 election ‘discrepancies’
A new social studies agenda approved by the education board would require high-schoolers to review baseless claims related to President Trump’s 2020 election loss.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 16, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy.

Nonetheless, holy shit.

What’s remarkable is that there’s hardly any real news driving this. It’s just investors belatedly realizing that Trump is who he is, and always was.
March 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Unidade das Forças de Defesa de Israel dedicada a espionagem treinou um modelo de inteligência artificial capaz de compreender diálogos em árabe, revela uma investigação do The Guardian.
Israel treinou modelo de IA semelhante ao ChatGPT para vigiar palestinianos
Unidade das Forças de Defesa de Israel dedicada a espionagem treinou um modelo de inteligência artificial capaz de compreender diálogos em árabe, revela uma investigação do The Guardian.
www.publico.pt
March 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Step by step of the democracy funeral
“Hitler systematically disabled and then dismantled his country’s democratic structures and processes in less than two months’ time—specifically, one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes,” Timothy W. Ryback writes in a step-by-step account:
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
www.theatlantic.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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American social media companies write the algorithms that determine what voters read; moderation systems are opaque; political advertising cannot always be tracked. Do European democracies, or any democracies, really have sovereign elections anymore?
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Can Europe Stop Elon Musk?
He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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While we’re banning books…

Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.

Be. Like. Finland.
January 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM