White Privilege & Why NICUs Should Care

Ecohydrology--why hydrologists should care.

Eosinophils in COPD: why should I care?

1. Divisão de Pneumologia, Instituto do Coração, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo (SP) Brasil. What defines a disease? Intuitively, it is very simple to differentiate between disease and health, but it is surprisingly difficult to define what “disease” is. Physicians are extensively trained to recognize signs and symptoms in patients and to attr...

Why doctors should care about animal cruelty.

BACKGROUND Animal cruelty is a significant problem for society, and there are good reasons why doctors should be particularly concerned by it. Increasing evidence for links between animal cruelty and child or spousal abuse is an area of growing concern internationally and of real importance to health professionals. OBJECTIVE This article aims to raise awareness of the relevance of animal crue...

Why should we care about fly tumors?

Drosophila is proving to be a valuable model for studying aggressive tumors induced by the combined activation of EGFR and JAK-STAT signaling. Here we summarize some of the most recent data showing that tissue damage and the modulation of common pathway regulators are at the heart tumor progression and metastasis.

Why should biomedical scientists care about biodiversity?

The ecological tradition is different: ecologists emphasise the diversity of their organisms, and many ecologists would argue that their organism is ‘unique’ because it exhibits adaptations to its environment. This uniqueness is encapsulated in the Linnaean binomial nomenclature: this label, by definition, establishes that a group of organisms is distinct enough from their relatives. Sticking t...