Novo Consultório
Esperamos que até o fim desta semana estejamos instalados em novo endereço: *Avenida Borges de Medeiros 2.500 Sala 1005* *10o. andar do Edifício Prime Offices, junto ao Shopping Praia de Belas*, e a uma quadra de nossa residência. Quando construímos nossa casa, a Valderês pensou em construir um terceiro piso com um mirante para contemplar o Guaíba. Agora ela tem o mirante não em cima, mas quase ao lado e mais perto do lago, sem que qualquer obstáculo possa encobrir a magnífica paisagem. Amigos e clientes serão bem vindos para desfrutar da vista e da companhia. Houve época em que se co... mais »
Longevity
Is there a biological limit to longevity? "Medicine is about transcending biology." July 5, 2012 by Aubrey de Grey Percent of people surviving to a given age in various decades, based on data from the Dept. of Demography, UC Berkeley (credit: C. A. Everone/fis.org) Gerontologists and demographers have argued about this for a long time, with the balance of opinion heavily influenced by the changes seen in the wealthiest nations’ “survival curves” — graphs showing, broadly speaking, the proportion of an initial population that survived to a given age. Until a couple of centuries ago, th... mais »
Mind Uploading
‘Mind uploading’ featured in academic journal special issue for first timeJune 26, 2012 (Credit: iStockphoto) The Special Issue on Mind Uploading (Vol. 4, issue 1, June 2012) of the *International Journal of Machine Consciousness*, just released, “constitutes a significant milestone in the history of mind uploading research: the first-ever collection of scientific and philosophical papers on the theme of mind uploading,” as Ben Goertzel and Matthew Ikle’ note in the Introduction to this issue. “Mind uploading” is an informal term that refers to transferring the mental contents from ... mais »
WEB: evolução
*A Evolução da web* [image: The Evolution of the Web] Atualmente, a web é um universo em crescimento de páginas e de aplicativos da web interligados, além de vídeos, fotos e conteúdo interativo. O que o usuário comum não percebe é a interação de tecnologias da web e navegadores que possibilita tudo isso. Com o tempo, as tecnologias da web evoluíram para proporcionar aos desenvolvedores da web a capacidade de criar novas gerações de experiências da web úteis e imersivas. A web atual é resultado dos esforços contínuos de uma comunidade da web aberta que ajuda a definir essas tecnologi... mais »
Leukemianew treatment
Multimedia Graphic Searching for a Cancer’s Vulnerable Target In Treatment for Leukemia, Glimpses of the FuturePublished: July 7, 2012 145 Comments ST. LOUIS — Genetics researchers at Washington University, one of the world’s leading centers for work on the human genome, were devastated. Dr. Lukas Wartman, a young, talented and beloved colleague, had the very cancer he had devoted his career to studying. He was deteriorating fast. No known treatment could save him. And no one, to their knowledge, had ever investigated the complete genetic makeup of a cancer like his./.../ Enlarge T... mais »
Dark matter bridge
Dark matter bridge between galaxy clusters discovered Finding supports of the standard theory of structure formation oft he universeBy Clara Moskowitz updated 7/5/2012 11:33:38 AM ET [image: Image: Clusters] Jörg Dietrich, University of Michigan/University Observatory Munich A July 2012 study of the galaxy clusters Abell 222 and Abell 223 found they are connected by a dark matter filament, shown here. The blue shading and the yellow contours indicate the density of matter. The image on the sky is about twice as big as the full moon. By Clara Moskowitz A giant string of invisible dark... mais »
Cidade e Saúde: Jornada
*Do AMICOR Sérgio Luiz Bassanesi:* *1ª JORNADA CIDADE E SAÚDE* *19 DE JULHO DE 2012* *Local: Faculdade de Arquitetura – UFRGS - R. Sarmento Leite 320 Sala 409* Debate sobre a organização da cidade, a habitação e seus efeitos sobre a saúde da população Público alvo: profissionais de saúde, estudantes de graduação e pós-graduação nas áreas da saúde, arquitetura e áreas afins *PROGRAMAÇÃO:* 9 horas: Abertura Das 9:30 as 12h: O circuito doença/pobreza na cidade: Espaços da diferença Painelistas:Leandro Andrade e Sergio Bassanesi - Debatedora: Lucimar Siqueira Das 13:30 as 15:30: A rela... mais »
Memento Mori...
Why Thinking About Your Death May Prompt You to Save the Planet By TARA THEAN | July 4, 2012 | [image: Nicholas DeVore] NICHOLAS DEVORE Thinking about your own death isn’t usually the most pleasant experience, but it can be a beneficial one. Reminders of our own mortality can increase our desire to make decisions that will leave long-term, positive impacts on generations to come, according to a new study published in Psychological Science./.../
Hospital Safety
[image: healthleaders, media, logo] ------------------------------ Consumer Reports Rates Hospital Safety*Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media * , July 5, 2012 The spotlight on hospital-caused patient harm has become a bit brighter with the launch of*Consumer Reports*' hospital safety ratings, which uses several different measures than the Leapfrog Group's recent and controversial hospital letter grades, and reaches opposite conclusions about many facilities. The CU rating system, featured in the magazine's August issue, rates hospitals in six categories: 1. Infections 2. 30-... mais »
Brain Library
THE DIGITAL BRAIN LIBRARY [image: The Brain Observatory Image] [image: Printer-friendly version]Printer-friendly version The Digital Brain Library Project at the UCSD is an unprecedented effort to compare what has been learned about human behavior and disease with the actual organ, the brain. *Mind Mappers * *Digital Brain Library sets out to dissect brains of 1,000 donors*
Neurology & Psychiatry: Two centuries
Two Centuries of Neurology and Psychiatry in the *Journal* Allan H. Ropper, M.D. N Engl J Med 2012; 367:58-65July 5, 2012 Comments open through December 31, 2012 ArticleReferencesComments Interactive Graphic [image: Neurology, 1812–2012.] Neurology, 1812–2012. Fifty years ago, when the curator of the Boston Medical Library, Henry Viets, collated a score of the most important articles that had been published in the first century and a half of the *New England Journal of Medicine,* 10 of the 20 related to neurologic conditions.1 On the occasion of its 200th anniversary, one might ask wh... mais »
Chronic Pain
Back pains? Brain scans predict how long they’ll last By Janet Fang | July 3, 2012, 7:08 PM PDT A new technique can predict which patients with sore backs will end up enduring it as chronic back pain. According to a new study, there’s a difference in brain scans between two groups of patients – those whose pain subsides and those whose pain lasts for years. And this difference appears early in the course of the pain. By analyzing the scans, researchers were able to predict whether the patients would develop chronic pain with an 85% level of accuracy – leading to ways of identifying p... mais »
Aggressivenes control
Self-Distancing Can Calm Aggression By RICK NAUERT PHD *Senior News Editor* Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on July 3, 2012 [image: Self-Distancing Can Calm Aggression]Forcing yourself to look at the big picture, or pretending that you are a fly on the wall observing a scene as it unfolds, can be an effective anger management strategy. Experts say that changing the focus from being a participant in a stressful situation, to being an observer from a distanced perspective can help an individual come to a true understanding of their feelings. Researchers call this strategy “self-dista... mais »
Boson de Higgs
Existência do Boson de Higgs é CONFIRMADA [partícula de Deus] também: * http://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/2012/07/04/um-novo-b%C3%B3son-%C3%A0-vista/ * ou http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=124704&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click É um marco histórico, mas é apenas o começo. Uma coletiva de imprensa realizada no CERN (Organização Européia de Pesquisas Nucleares) em Genebra, Suíça, anunciou hoje (quarta), a descoberta de uma das partículas elementares para a formação de tudo o que existe: o Boson de Higgs. “Nós observamos em nossos dados sinais claros de uma nova partícula.” D... mais »
Celebrações...
Celebrando a vida junto com tantos amigos. Simultaneamente com 55 anos de casamento Aloyz
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