Enormity of US Military
Enormity of US Military impedes nuclear abolition Posted on November 28, 2011 | 1 Comment * (Essay 27)**Bernard Lown, MD* Among antinuclear activists there is a sense of jubilant expectation that at last a demonic class of genocidal weapons will soon be consigned to the junk heap of history. Left behind will be a shudder of memory of how close humans came to an abyss of self-extinction. Outlawing the nuclear genie will not rebottle it. The potential nuclear nightmare will need to be secured everlastingly against perverse miscreants. Nonetheless, the removal of nuclear weapons from mi... mais »
Agua y saneamiento: políticas públicas
PAS/OMS lança a publicação “ Agua y saneamiento - Evidencias para políticas públicas con enfoque en derechos humanos y resultados en salud pública” [image: null] Esta publicação foi desenvolvida a partir de um estudo de evidências realizado pela Academia de Medicina de Buenos Aires, Argentina. pedido da OPAS / OMS. O estudo contou com a supervisão e apoio técnico da Dr. Evelyn Chapman coordenador para as Américas do EVIPNet e do Eng . Paulo Fernando Teixeira, assessor regional da Área de Desenvolvimento Sustentável e Saúde Ambiental (SDE) da OPAS / OMS. Contou tambem com a colabo... mais »
Alzheimer: deep brain stimulation
[image: After deep brain stimulation near the formix, the hippocampus grew in two out of six people with Alzheimer's (Image: UBH Trust/STONE/Getty)]Alzheimer's damage reversed by deep brain stimulation - 23 November 2011 by *Jessica Hamzelou* - Magazine issue 2840. *Subscribe and save* - - After deep brain stimulation near the formix, the hippocampus grew in two out of six people with Alzheimer's *(Image: UBH Trust/STONE/Getty)* BRAIN shrinkage in people with Alzheimer's disease can be reversed in some cases - by jolting the degenerating tissue with elec... mais »
Air Pollution & Diabetes
Diabetes Incidence and Long-Term Exposure to Air PollutionA cohort study * 1. Zorana J. Andersen, PHD1⇓, 2. Ole Raaschou-Nielsen, PHD1, 3. Matthias Ketzel, PHD2, 4. Steen S. Jensen, PHD2, 5. Martin Hvidberg, BS2, 6. Steffen Loft, DMSC3, 7. Anne Tjønneland, DMSC1, 8. Kim Overvad, PHD4,5and 9. Mette Sørensen, PHD1* ** *1Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark **2Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark **3Section of Environmental Health, Department of Public Health, University of Co... mais »
[image: Face book founder Mark Zuckerberg]Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's public page does not reveal how many friends he has Facebook users average 3.74 degrees of separation Continue reading the main storyRelated Stories - Facebook 'eliminates porn attack' - Raids follow up Facebook tip-offs - How Kevin Bacon sparked a new branch of science There are on average 3.74 degrees of separation between any one Facebook user and another, a study suggests. The number of degrees represents the number of people in a friendship chain, excluding the people at either end. Or, as th... mais »
InterAmerican Heart Foundation
*Estamos de Parabéns! A Fundação InterAmericana do Coração, a Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia e o grupo AMICOR. Dr. Carlos Alberto Machado foi eleito para o Comitê Diretor.* InterAmerican Heart Foundation En Orlando, el 14 de nov 2011 se votaron nuevos vocales de la FIC: Dr. Salvador Cruz-Flores (EUA) y Dr. Carlos Machado (Brasil) ingresan. Continúan Lic Yvonne García Richaud (Mx) y Dr. Fernando Montenegro (Ecuador)
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