Razões para amar a cidade
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Top 10 everything
- News & Politics - Arts & Entertainment - Science & Society - Business, Sports & Tech - Pop Culture Top 10 Everything of 2011 In 54 wide-ranging lists, TIME surveys the highs and lows, the good and the bad, of the past 12 months. PHOTO-ILLUSTRATION BY SIMON FUNG FOR TIME; FROM LEFT: CORBIS; NEXUS; GETTY IMAGES (2); AP; GETTY IMAGES (2)
A arte de consolar
PALAVRA DE MÉDICO | J.J. CAMARGO Caderno Vida ZH 03 Dez. 2011A arte de consolar - Quando alguém sofre uma tragédia pessoal, muitos dos amigos considerados mais próximos se afastam, negando o apoio esperado na hora difícil. E a amargura tem, entre outras coisas, a capacidade de separar amigos e companheiros, porque esses e aqueles se confundem nos momentos felizes, mas são dolorosamente depurados nos momentos de dor. Claro que haverá sempre aqueles que só servem mesmo para a comemoração e nunca se poderá contar com eles, nem com a escassa utilidade que... mais »
Cancer x Lifestyle
*Referência do Emílio Moriguchi:* [image: The fraction of cancer attributable to lifestyle and_environmental.pdf] *The fraction of cancer attributable to lifestyle and_environmental.pdf* 287K Visualizar Baixar 40% dos tumores podem ser prevenidos* *Estudo feito no Reino Unido avaliou mais de 100 mil diagnósticos08 de dezembro de 2011 ** Entre os fatores avaliados, fumo é o mais determinante no desenvolvimento de um tumor**** Quase metade dos tumores - 45% dos masculinos e 40% nas mulheres - são causados pelo estilo de vida e poderiam ser prevenidos, diz um novo estudo publicado ... mais »
Moacyr Scliar
*D0 Fernando Neubarth:* A Sec. de Cultura voltou a publicar uma revista (VOX) e fez uma edição quase toda em homenagem ao Scliar. Pediram-me que escrevesse sobre medicina e literatura (páginas 16 a 18) e achei que pudesse gostar, estou te repassando para quando tiveres um tempinho. A ilustração é uma litografia da Suzel. .............................................. Bom final de semana. *Fernando Neubarth* Porto Alegre, 10 de dezembro de 2011. O link é: http://issuu.com/cultura_rs/docs/revistavox
The Right to Health
http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/Factsheet31.pdf *I. WHAT IS THE RIGHT TO HEALTH?* A. Key aspects of the right to health1 • The right to health is an inclusive right. We frequently associate the right to health with access to health care and the building of hospitals. This is correct, but the right to health extends further. It includes a wide range of factors that can help us lead a healthy life. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the body responsible for monitoring the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 2 calls these the “und... mais »
Innovative Learning Method
[image: Image with a head and three brain patterns going to people, Chinese characters and airplanes.] Vision Scientists Demonstrate Innovative Learning Method *New research suggests it may be possible to learn high-performance tasks with little or no conscious effort* Researchers: Adult early visual areas are sufficiently plastic to cause visual perceptual learning. Credit and Larger Version*December 8, 2011* *View a video showing researchers explaining Decoded Neurofeedback.* New research published today in the journal *Science* suggests it may be possible to use brain technology to ... mais »
Earliest Known Bug-Repellant Plant
[image: Image of Sibudu rock shelter in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.] Earliest Known Bug-Repellant Plant Bedding Found at South African Rock Shelter *Evidence suggests herbal medicines used 77,000 years ago* Sibudu rock shelter in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Credit and Larger Version *December 8, 2011* What were the daily lives of modern humans like more than 50,000 years ago? Rare finds such as early ornaments, cave drawings and Middle Stone Age engravings are the subjects of a good deal of anthropological study and they provide clues. But in today's journal *Scienc... mais »
Earth-like planet confirmed
[image: Artist's conception of Kepler 22-b]The planet, shown here in an artist's conception, circles its host star in 290 days Kepler 22-b: Earth-like planet confirmed Continue reading the main storyRelated Stories - Most liveable alien worlds ranked - Hunt closes in on 'another Earth' - Strangely silent star system seen Astronomers have confirmed the existence of an Earth-like planet in the "habitable zone" around a star not unlike our own. The planet, Kepler 22-b, lies about 600 light-years away and is about 2.4 times the size of Earth, and has a temperature of about 22C... mais »
The Universe's Dark Ages
The Universe's Dark Ages [image: Herschel galaxies]ESA's Herschel space telescope has discovered that previously unseen distant galaxies are responsible for a cosmic fog of infrared radiation. The galaxies are some of the faintest and furthest objects seen by Herschel, and open a new window on the birth of stars in the early universe. To date, it is the most sensitive image of the universe taken with Herschel. CREDIT: ESA/PEP Consortium View full size image The dark ages of the universe — an era of darkness that existed before the first stars and galaxies — mostly remain a mys... mais »
Fetal programming
Life in Womb Holds Clues to Risk Decades Later *By Todd Neale, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: December 04, 2011 Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.* Action Points Factors that occur during fetal development may help identify offspring -- particularly females -- who are susceptible to the co-occurrence of major depression and cardiovascular disease in mid-life, researchers found. Women exposed to preeclampsia and fetal growth restriction in the womb had deficits in the regi... mais »
health-care fraud
Prevention not cure in tackling health-care fraud Figures released last month reveal the enormous scale of health-care fraud around the world. Ben Jones and Amy Jing report on efforts to tackle “the last great unreduced health-care cost”./.../
Men's Health in Europe
The State of the men's health in Europe: Report.
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