Bernard Lown: Avoidable Care
Social Responsibility of Physicians Posted on April 29, 2012 | 2 Comments Bernard Lown, MD Address presented at *Avoiding avoidable Care Conference* April 26, 2012 Essay 29 *Introduction* - Ever since starting clinical practice 62 years ago I have looked forward to this conference. Mercifully, good fortune and good genes enable me to attend. From my earliest days in medicine I have struggled against the prevailing model of healthcare. My opposition in part was provoked by the growing prevalence of overtreatment. Resort to excessive interventions seemed to be the i... mais »
HDL-Raising Drug
Roche Stops Trial of HDL-Raising Drug By Chris Kaiser, Cardiology Editor, MedPage Today Published: May 07, 2012 Even though there were no safety signals associated with dalcetrapib, the independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board recommended stopping the phase III dal-OUTCOMES trial, according to drugmaker Roche. The board said that the second interim analysis of the trial showed the results lacked a "clinically meaningful efficacy," according to a company statement. Dalcetrapib, a cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) inhibitor, had two positive safety trials./.../
Brain Cortex
Alzheimer’s Signs May Show Up 10 Years Before Doctors Realize Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily Happy older woman. CREDIT: stock.xchng Brains may start showing signs of Alzheimer's disease about a decade before the condition is recognized by doctors, a new study suggests. Brain scans showing shrinkage in the cerebral cortex of seniors who later developed dementia suggested that researchers had found a marker for Alzheimer's. Measurements of those areas "could be very important indicators to help identify who may be at risk of developing Alzheimer's dementia," study researcher Leyl... mais »
Bike
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss By Christopher Mims Photo by Mikael Colville-Andersen. Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact, reports Andy Clarke, president of the league of American Bicyclists: “When all these factors are added together the net social gain is DKK 1.22 per cycled kilometer. For purposes of comparison there is a net social loss of DKK 0.69 per kilometer driven by car.” 1.22 Danish crowns is about 25 cen... mais »
Dementia
THE VANISHING MIND When Illness Makes a Spouse a Stranger *In Love and Loss:* Michael French has frontotemporal dementia, for which there is no cure or treatment. As his condition deteriorated, his wife, Ruth, had to move him to a nursing home, where she spends most days. By DENISE GRADY Published: May 5, 2012 He threw away tax documents, got a ticket for trying to pass an ambulance and bought stock in companies that were obviously in trouble. Once a good cook, he burned every pot in the house. He became withdrawn and silent, and no longer spoke to his wife over dinner. That same fa... mais »
Resveratrol
SIRT1 Is Required for AMPK Activation and the Beneficial Effects of Resveratrol on Mitochondrial Function - Summary - Introduction - Results - Discussion - Exp. Proc. - Data - References - Supp. Info. - Related Info. - Comments (0) - Graphical Abstract - PDF 1.01 MB - Export Citation - Permissions *Cell Metabolism, *Volume 15, Issue 5, 675-690, 2 May 2012 Copyright 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 10.1016/j.cmet.2012.04.003 *Referred to by: *Fortifying the Link between SIRT1, Resve... Authors Nathan L. Price,Ana P. Gomes,Alvin J.Y.... mais »
EDX
MIT and Harvard launch a ‘revolution in education’ Online edX courses will open both universities’ classrooms to the world while enhancing on-campus learning. MIT and Harvard announce edX May 2, 2012 What is edX? May 2, 2012 May 2, 2012 ore Sharing SeSharMIT President Susan Hockfield and Harvard University President Drew Faust, accompanied by top officials from both institutions, announced on Wednesday a new collaboration that will unite the Cambridge-based universities in an ambitious new partnership to deliver online education to learners anywhere in the worl The new venture, call... mais »
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Open, free access to academic research? This will be a seismic shift Opening up access to academic research will put more data and power in the hands of the people who pay for it - - - [image: David Willetts] - - David Willetts - guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 1 May 2012 21.00 BST - Article history [image: Wikipedia free open access] Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales will be helping ensure that the publicly funded portal promotes collaboration and engagement. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty My department spends about £5bn each year funding academic res... mais »
Participação comunitária
The open source problem solvers creating government 2.0 Meet the new breed of technologist who's hacking the government at every level to make it work better for you - - - - - Brian Braiker - guardian.co.uk, Thursday 3 May 2012 15.47 BST - Article history[image: open source hacking] Code For America links enterprising programmers up with governments struggling to share their data. Photograph: codeforamerica.org Ben Berkowitz woke up three years ago to find a huge graffiti tag scrawled across his neighbor's wall, which he couldn't avoid seei... mais »
language
Two related languages are found on opposite sides of the globe. Have you heard the story of the Tower of Babel? According to the Bible, all of humanity lived together in harmony, until God decided to confuse the languages and spread the people across the Earth. This story points to one of the great mysteries of human culture: why do we all speak different languages? Our ancestors probably began using language between 200,000 to 50,000 years ago. (Can’t remember how Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons are different? Learn how to keep them straight here.) As language evolved and moved across ... mais »
The Taste of War
On Their Stomachs ‘The Taste of War,’ by Lizzie Collingham Associated Press Chinese fighters share a basket of rice, 1943. By TIMOTHY SNYDER Published: May 4, 2012 Calories were made to be counted, but they have generally been counted for two very different reasons. We associate calories with excess, but for most of its history this little unit of energy was linked to shortage. The years since World War II have been a time of cheap and plentiful food, and of obese and sick citizens. Since our own daily struggle is fought against fat, we fail to see that many of the conflicts of the ... mais »
born premature
Report: 15 million babies are born premature worldwide every yearAbout 15 million premature babies are born every year, according to a report from the March of Dimes, World Health Organization and a coalition of international health experts. "Being born too soon is an unrecognized killer," says Dr. Joy Lawn of Save the Children, who co-authored the report. The Washington Post/The Associated Press (5/2) [image: LinkedIn] [image: Facebook] [image: Twitter] [image: Email this Story]
Humility
[image: B2M Productions / Getty Images] Humility: A Quiet, Underappreciated Strength By MAIA SZALAVITZ | @maiasz | April 27, 2012 | Humility doesn’t top the list of popular virtues these days, but if you’re ever in need of help, a humble friend is more likely to be there for you than a prideful one, new research suggests. Humbleness has also been linked with generosity. Studies find that the trait predicts charitable giving and generous behavior toward others in monetary games played in the lab. “Compassion is hard if you don’t have humility,” says psychologist Jordan LaBouff of th... mais »
Strange organism
Strange organism has unique roots in the tree of life By Jennifer Welsh updated 4/30/2012 10:19:26 PM ET [image: microorganism image]Talk about extended family: A single-celled organism in Norway has been called "mankind's furthest relative." It is so far removed from the organisms we know that researchers claim it belongs to a new base group, called a kingdom, on the tree of life. "We have found an unknown branch of the tree of life that lives in this lake. It is unique! So far we know of no other group of organisms that descend from closer to the roots of the tree of life than this... mais »
Omega-3 & Alzheimer
Omega-3s Linked to Lower Amyloid Levels By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today Published: May 02, 2012 Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Action Points - A study of diet and plasma beta-amyloid in cognitively normal individuals over 65 found that increased consumption of omega-3 fatty acids was significantly associated with lower plasma levels of beta-amyloid protein 42. - Note that none of the other nutrients were found to have a significant association with plasma beta-amyloid. Peopl... mais »
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Two Hundred Years of Surgery Atul Gawande, M.D., M.P.H. N Engl J Med 2012; 366:1716-1723May 3, 2012 Comments open through December 31, 2012 ArticleReferencesComments Interactive Timeline [image: Surgery 1812-2012.] Surgery 1812-2012. Surgery is a profession defined by its authority to cure by means of bodily invasion. The brutality and risks of opening a living person's body have long been apparent, the benefits only slowly and haltingly worked out. Nonetheless, over the past two centuries, surgery has become radically more effective, and its violence substantially reduced — changes t... mais »
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*Enviado pela AMICOR Vera Drehmer* A experiência de Porto Alegre na criação de ambientes coletivos livres de tabaco (Série Estudo de Caso)Mais acessado!* http://new.paho.org/bra/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=1365&Itemid=423 *No. Acessos: 155 O estudo de caso “A experiência de Porto Alegre na criação de ambientes coletivos livres de tabaco” é o terceiro volume de uma série de publicações da Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde que busca documentar as diversas iniciativas governamentais para proteger as pessoas que não fumam da exposição à fumaça de produtos de tabaco,... mais »
Vasculature in Alzheimer's Disease and Vascular Cognitive Impairment
*VASCULATURE IN ALZHEIMER * * May 4, 2012 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM* *Targeting the Vasculature in Alzheimer's Disease and Vascular Cognitive Impairment* Vascular alterations are both a cause and a consequence of neuronal loss. This conference presents current knowledge on the vascular connection to Alzheimer's pathogenesis and highlights novel approaches to intervention for therapeutic development. https://docs.google.com/document/d/12O0HKmLY184E1OukCFyAIvOvf21_JcYHMkPL9Rqcpws/edit#
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