Sebastião Salgado: O drama silencioso da fotografia
O Monstro de Alcântara
E aqui vai um release feito especialmente para o lançamento: [image: Imagem inline 1] *O Monstro de Alcântara* é um drama psicológico de realidade fantástica, ambientado na Porto Alegre do fim do século XX. O protagonista é um médico solitário, extremamente dedicado aos pacientes e um cristão tão fervoroso que considera a Bíblia como parte indispensável do seu arsenal terapêutico. Ao mesmo tempo, é um homem atormentado, desencantado com o mundo e com a medicina convencional e, num estranho paradoxo, está irremediavelmente divorciado da igreja. Em comum acordo com a mãe de uma jovem ... mais »
Greed
How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives: Annie Dillard on Presence Over Productivity*by Maria Popova* *“The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.”* The meaning of life has been pondered by such literary icons as Leo Tolstoy (1904), Henry Miller(1918), Anaïs Nin (1946), Viktor Frankl (1946),Italo Calvino (1975), and David Foster Wallace(2005). And though some have argued that today’s age is one where “the great dream is to trade up from money to meaning,” there’s an unshakable and discomfiting sense ... mais »
Global Health
*Health Policy Reform: Global Health versus private profit.* John Lister, Libri Publishing www.libripublishing.co.uk London Paperback *• *ISBN: 978 1 907471 78 0 *• *360pp *• *228 x 152mm £25.00, €30.00, US$ 40.00, C$ 40.00 *Press *release *New book dissects global health reforms* *“**As a journalist by trade I always want to get the most up to date, accurate and readable account across, to make people aware of the policies that are being promoted in our name by politicians at home and abroad.* *“I have always wanted to see a serious, critical analysis of health policy reform, to ... mais »
Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, was an English physician andfeminist, the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain and the first female mayor in England. Born9 June 1836 Whitechapel, London, EnglandDied17 December 1917 (aged 81)Profession PhysicianInstitutionsNew Hospital for Women London School of Medicine for WomenKnown forBeing the first ever woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain Creating a medical school for womenEducationStudied privately with physicians in London hospitalsRelationsLouisa Garrett Anderson(Daughter) Alan Garrett Anderson (Son) Millicent Garrett... mais »
Smoking Alcohol
Smoking Alcohol: The Dangerous Way People Are Getting Drunk By Alexandra SifferlinJune 05, 201360 Comments [image: 169996535] TONY TREMBLAY / GETTY IMAGES RELATED - 'Smoking' Alcohol is a Highly Dangerous Trend Among the Calorie-Conscious: Experts *New York Daily News* - Inhaling Alcohol Vapor Puts You at Risk of Overdose *CBS News* - Smoking Alcohol Tops Butt Chugging As Most Ridiculous New Bro Trend *The Huffington Post* To get drunk, people are getting creative. But a new form of drinking, known as “smoking” alcohol, has doctors concerned. Whatever happened to taki... mais »
Tabagismo
*Texto elaborado em 2007 com nossas experiências com controle do Tabagismo* *Anotações para entrevista com Editor de livro do INCA* Aloyzio Cechella Achutti 12/10/2007 Natural de Santa Maria (RS-1934), formado em medicina pela Faculdade de Medicina da UFRGS em 1958, na época a única existente no Estado. Fumei cigarros e cachimbo intermitentemente dos 18 aos 32 anos. Deixei de fumar na medida em que apareceram evidências do malefício do tabagismo, em especial de um artigo que chamava atenção para a relação com a morte súbita. Meu interesse e comprometimento relativo ao tabagismo se inten... mais »
Glowing Plants
*Grow your own glowing plant* June 6, 2013 by Andrew Hessel A glow-in-the-dark tobacco plant (credit:* Science*) The Glowing Plants Kickstarter, the first-ever crowdfunded synthetic biology campaign, is winding down into the final hours. Launched on April 23, 2013, the campaign aimed to create a glow-in-the-dark plant while showcasing the technology of synthetic biology. It also served as a vehicle to introduce two startups in the sector: Genome Compiler Corporation and Cambrian Genomics./.../
First atomic images of molecules
First atomic images of molecules before and after reactionJune 4, 2013 [image: molecule_before_after] Non-contact atomic force microscope (nc-AFM) images (center) of a molecule before and after an annealing reaction (T>90 degrees C) improve immensely over images (top) from a scanning tunneling microscope and look just like the classic molecular structure diagrams (bottom) (credit: UC Berkeley) A technique for snapping an atomic-scale picture of a chemical before and after it reacts has been developed by chemists and physicists at the University of California, Berkeley. Using a modified... mais »
DNA
*Kurzweill trouxe novidades sobre o Código da Vida* [image: Coles] Next generation DNA sequencing ‘Junk DNA’ plays active role in cancer progression, researchers find June 3, 2013 [image: DNA_exons_introns]Scientists at The University of Nottingham have found that a genetic rogue element produced by sequences until recently considered “junk DNA” could promote cancer progression. The researchers, led by Dr Cristina Tufarelli, in the School of Graduate Entry Medicine and Health Sciences, discovered that the presence of this faulty genetic element — known as chimeric transcript LCT13 … m... mais »
Altering memory
Your memory can be altered by interfering information June 6, 2013 [image: (Credit: iStockphoto)] You can manipulate an existing memory simply by suggesting new or different information, Iowa State University researchers have shown. The key is timing and recall of that memory, said Jason Chan, an assistant professor of psychology at Iowa State. “If you reactivate a memory by retrieving it, that memory becomes susceptible to changes again. And if at … more…/.../
PRISMA
NSA taps in to Internet giants’ systems to mine user data, secret files reveal June 6, 2013 [image: Prism] The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other U.S. Internet giants, according to a top secret document, dated April 2013, obtained by the Guardian. The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called PRISM, which allows officials to collect material including search history, the content of emails, … more…/.../
Sem título
*Social Determinants of Health Conceptual frameworks * in a public health context shall in the best of worlds serve two equally important purposes: guide empirical work to enhance our understanding of determinants and mechanisms and guide policy-making to illuminate entry points for interventions and policies. Effects of social determinants on population health and on health inequalities are characterized by working through long causal chains of mediating factors. Many of these factors tend to cluster among individuals living in underprivileged conditions and to interact with each oth... mais »
Immortality
Buying Your Way to Eternity By Stephen CaveJune 05, 20130 - - - - - - - Read Later Why do you put up with the frustrations and indignities of work? I’m guessing that, first and foremost, it’s because you think you need the cash. But let’s say you’ve got enough to put a roof over your head and food in your belly — or could easily get it putting in fewer hours than you do. Why are you still at your desk? Why do you spend so many hours adding numbers to a bank balance? The answer might surprise you: Because you believe it will make you live f... mais »
Healthy Living
entionLatest News| Videos Healthy Living Pays Dividends By Todd Neale, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: June 03, 2013 Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner Action Points - Exercising regularly, eating a healthy diet, avoiding smoking, and maintaining a healthy weight were associated with a lower risk of dying over the next decade. - Note that adjustment for factors that could be on the causal pathway between the behaviors and atheroscler... mais »
Valsartan and b-amyloid protein
[image: Logo of jcinvest] J Clin Invest. 2007 November 1; 117(11): 3393–3402. Published online 2007 October 25. doi: 10.1172/JCI31547 PMCID: PMC2040315 *Referência enviada pelo AMICOR Geniberto Paiva Campos.* Valsartan lowers brain β-amyloid protein levels and improves spatial learning in a mouse model of Alzheimer disease Jun Wang,1 Lap Ho,1,2 Linghong Chen,1 Zhong Zhao,1 Wei Zhao,1 Xianjuan Qian, 1 Nelson Humala,1 Ilana Seror,1 Sadie Bartholomew,1 Clive Rosendorff,3 and Giulio Maria Pasinetti1,2,4 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article... mais »
Why the Paleo Diet Is Half-Baked
How to Really Eat Like a Hunter-Gatherer: Why the Paleo Diet Is Half-Baked [Interactive & Infographic] We are not biologically identical to our Paleolithic predecessors, nor do we have access to the foods they ate. And deducing dietary guidelines from modern foraging societies is difficult because they vary so much by geography, season and opportunity By Ferris Jabr 8 inShare Share on Tumblr [image: paleo diet, hunter gatherer food.] Image: Marissa Fessenden - The Best Science Writing Online 2012 Showcasing more than fifty of the most provocative, original, and ... mais »
Guideline for Guidelines WHO
*World Health Organization Guideline Development: An Evaluation***** David Sinclair1, Rachel Isba1, Tamara Kredo2, Babalwa Zani2, Helen Smith3, Paul Garner1**** 1 Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2 South African Cochrane Centre, Cape Town, South Africa,**** 3 Department of International Public Health, **Liverpool** **School** of Tropical Medicine, ****Liverpool**, **United Kingdom *****Artigo sugerido pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja* **** *PloS ONE - May 31, 2013 - Volume 8 - Issue 5 - e63715***** Available onl... mais »
Fructose
Examining the Health Effects of Fructose FREEONLINE FIRST David S. Ludwig, MD, PhD [+] Author Affiliations *JAMA. *2013;():1-2. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.6562. Text Size: A A A Published online June 3, 2013 CONCLUSIONS Few modern studies have compared the long-term effects of glucose, fructose, and starch under physiologically relevant condition, and such research should assume high priority. The available evidence suggests 3 key points. First, fructose in its primary natural form (whole fruit) is not associated with adverse effects up to the limits of human consumption. Second, excessive ... mais »
Your office has as much biodiversity as a rainforest.
Q&A: Jessica Green, biodiversity scientist, on the microbial ecosystems in our buildings By Christina Hernandez Sherwood | June 3, 2013, 3:00 AM PDT While some scientists spend their lives studying the rainforest or the ocean, Jessica Green considers ecosystems closer to home: offices, classrooms and even bathrooms. A biodiversity scientist and director of the Biology and the Built Environment Center at the University of Oregon, Green’s work aims to understand the role of these microbial ecosystems on human health. I spoke recently with Green about bio-informed design, creating objects... mais »
HDL-C
*The Association Between HDL Cholesterol and CVD Risk: Where Do We Stand?* This interactive-newsletter examines the complicated relationship between HDL-C and atherosclerotic vascular disease. Emerging evidence suggests that some subsets of HDL particles may be more protective against CVD than others. *Source:* National Lipid Association [more]
Biological Death
Biological Death Needs Better Definition An international consensus is needed on contemporary and practical criteria for brain and circulatory death, according to experts gathered in Barcelona for the annual congress of the European Society of Anesthesiology. Read more
Intensive Endurance Training
Low- and High-Volume of Intensive Endurance Training Significantly Improves Maximal Oxygen Uptake after 10-Weeks of Training in Healthy Men - Arnt Erik Tjønna mail, - Ingeborg Megaard Leinan, - Anette Thoresen Bartnes, - Bjørn M. Jenssen, - Martin J. Gibala, - Richard A. Winett, - Ulrik Wisløff - Article - About the Authors - Metrics - Comments - Related Content Hide Figures - Abstract - Introduction - Materials and Methods - Results - Discussion - Conclusion - Supporting Information ... mais »
Promoting physical activity
*Why are we failing to promote physical activity globally?* Philipe de Souto Barreto Physical inactivity is one of the most common and persistent contributors to poor health in the world. It is defined as the failure to achieve the minimum recommended physical activity, which is, for adults, 150 minutes of moderate aerobic exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic exercise per week, or an equivalent combination.1 In 72 of the 159 countries for which data on physical inactivity were available in 2008 (i.e. 59%),2 its population prevalence that year exceeded 30%, and in two of the re... mais »
Gaps in Health Research
*Use of data from registered clinical trials to identify gaps in health research and development* *Roderik F Viergever,a Robert F Terryb & Ghassan Karamc* *Objective *To explore what can be learnt about the current composition of the “global landscape” of health research and development (R&D) from data on the World Health Organization’s International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP). *Methods* A random 5% sample of the records of clinical trials that were registered as interventional and actively recruiting was taken from the ICTRP database. *Findings* Overall, 2381 record... mais »
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