2013 Best Books from Brain Pickings
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AD Selling
[image: New York Times] HEALTH - Log In - Register Now - Help The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder The Number of Diagnoses Soared Amid a 20-Year Drug Marketing Campaign “This is a concoction to justify the giving out of medication at unprecedented and unjustifiable levels,” Keith Conners, a psychologist and early advocate for recognition of A.D.H.D., said of the rising rates of diagnosis of the disorder.Karsten Moran for The New York Times The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder - - SHARE - COMMENT - E-MAIL - FACEBOOK - TWITTER - PRINT... mais »
2013 The New York Review of Books
[image: The New York Review of Books] SUBSCRIBE AND SAVETHIS ISSUE SPONSORED BY OVERLOOK PRESSAs we come to the end of *The New York Review’*s fiftieth year, we take a look back at 2013 through some of the pieces published in our pages – one article or post for each week of the year. Many thanks for your continued interest and support, and best wishes for the holidays and 2014. JANUARY *Elaine Blair*: Single Women and the Sitcom *Steve Coll*: ‘Disturbing’ and ‘Misleading’ *Zero Dark Thirty* *Avishai Margalit*: Palestine: How Bad Was British Rule? *Oliver Sacks*: Speak, Memory *Yasmine ... mais »
Há 55 anos (14 dezembro 1958)
*Turma Médica URGS 1958* Há 55 anos fizemos nosso Juramento Hipocrático e fomos diplomados no novo Salão de Atos da Universidade. Alguns sobreviventes devem se reunir para comemorar no Clube Germânia hoje pela noite. Infelizmente não poderei abraça-los pessoalmente por condições adversas familiares, mas lembrei de colocar aqui algumas fotos para comemorar como eu posso. Agradecendo os esforços de nosso colega Antônio Ludwig que mexeu conosco para que nos reuníssemos, transcrevo abaixo uma de suas últimas mensagens, onde dá conta de alguns detalhes curiosos que eu até hoje desconhecia... mais »
Grace Hopper: "bug in the system"
Grace Hopper (1906-1993) [image: Google Doodle, Dec. 9]Today’s Google Doodle celebrates what would have been the 107th birthday of computer pioneer Grace Hopper (1906-1992) just in time for the “Hour of Code” kicking off Computer Science Education Week. Hopper created COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language,) the program that allows computer to communicate through language as well as numbers. She joined the Navy Reserve in 1943, when she was teaching mathematics at Vassar, and finally reached the rank of rear admiral in 1985. Hopper, who repeatedly un-retired, became the oldest woma... mais »
big bang may never have happened
In a "Rainbow" Universe Time May Have No Beginning If different wavelengths of light experience spacetime differently, the big bang may never have happened By Clara Moskowitz 36 inShare Share on Tumblr Image: cherrychil/stock.xchng - What if the universe had no beginning, and time stretched back infinitely without a big bang to start things off? That's one possible consequence of an idea called "rainbow gravity," so-named because it posits that gravity's effects on spacetime are felt differently by different wavelengths of light, aka different colors in the rainbow... mais »
GLP-1
Understanding GLP-1 InjectedMedications: The Basics *If you have type 2 diabetes and oral medication is not enough to control your blood glucose levels, your doctor may prescribe an injected medication other than insulin. Known as incretin mimetics, drugs in this class of type 2 diabetes medications mimic the action of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), an incretin hormone that triggers insulin production after a meal.* Exenatide (Byetta) was the first GLP-1 to hit the market, followed by liraglutide (Victoza). Byetta and Victoza act only when blood glucose levels are high, so they shou... mais »
II LENAD (dez. 2013)
Divulgação dos dados do: Levantamento Nacional com Familiares dos Dependentes Químicos 01 dez 2013 Postado por Ieda Rivelino Pinhão 0 Comentário LEIA MAIS → Divulgação dos dados do II LENAD – Consumo de Tabaco no Brasil 01 dez 2013 Postado por Ieda Rivelino Pinhão 0 Comentário LEIA MAIS →
Tabagismo cai
Vício11/12/2013 | 17h53 Consumo de tabaco no Estado tem queda de 33% em seis anos, indica pesquisaApesar da diminuição, índice de gaúchos fumantes ainda é maior que a média nacional [image: Consumo de tabaco no Estado tem queda de 33% em seis anos, indica pesquisa Adriana Franciosi/Agencia RBS] Em 2012, 17,4% dos gaúchos eram fumantesFoto: Adriana Franciosi / Agencia RBS O consumo de tabaco caiu 33% no Rio Grande do Sul nos últimos seis anos, de acordo com o segundo Levantamento Nacional de Álcool e Drogas (Lenad) divulgado nesta quarta-feira pela Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Un... mais »
Epidemiology Online Course
[image: Home]Home » SERVICES FOR RESEARCHERS » Education & training » Free online courses & resources Free online courses & resources The following FREE online courses and resources are offered by the Education and Training Unit of Population Data BC as part of our mandate to serve the needs of researchers, analysts and practitioners.
Smoking cessation therapies
Three major smoking cessation therapies pose no serious heart risksAmerican Heart Association Rapid Access Journal Report December 09, 2013 *Study Highlights:* - Three major types of smoking cessation therapies pose no serious heart risks. - Nicotine replacement therapies temporarily increased the likelihood of a rapid or abnormal heartbeat, most often when people smoked while using them. - The antidepressant bupropion (Wellbutrin) protected against serious heart events. DALLAS, Dec. 9, 2013 — Three major types of smoking cessation therapies don’t increase the... mais »
Vit B12 and Acid suppressing medicines
Acid Reflux Drugs and Vitamin Deficiency Stomach acid suppressing medications are some of the most commonly prescribed drugs in the United States. But research shows taking them for an extended period of time may put you at risk for a vitamin B12 deficiency, which left untreated can lead to anemia and other health complications, even neurologic damage and dementia. Researchers at Kaiser Permanente used electronic medical records from more than 200,000 of their patients. Those who were dispensed a two or more year supply of proton pump inhibitors had a 65-percent increased risk of B12... mais »
Time 2013: PERSON OF THE YEAR
Pope Francis, The Choice With a focus on compassion, the leader of the Catholic Church has become a new voice of conscience. Managing Editor Nancy Gibbs explains why Francis is TIME's choice for Person of the Year 2013 By Nancy GibbsDec. 11, 2013167 Comments [image: Person of the Year 2013] To read about TIME’s choice in Spanish and Portuguese, click below. *El Elegido: El Papa Francisco es la Persona del Año 2013 de TIME* *A Escolha: O Papa Francisco é a Personalidade do Ano eleita pela Time em 2013* Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The ... mais »
To Ban Drug Reps...
Task Force: Ban Drug Reps From 'Ivory Towers' Published: Dec 10, 2013 Drug sales reps should be banned from academic medical centers, but mingling between faculty and pharma researchers is not a problem, according to a conflict-of-interest task force. "Pharmaceutical sales representatives should not be allowed access to any faculty, students, or trainees in academic medical centers or affiliated entities," the task force, convened by the Pew Charitable Trusts, wrote in a 30-page report released Tuesday . "However, faculty may invite pharmaceutical scientists for specific educational o... mais »
Human Rights for All Post-2015
JOINT STATEMENT Human Rights for All Post-2015 10 December 2013 Human rights have surged to the forefront of the debate about what will succeed the Millennium Development Goals in 2015. As human rights and social justice organizations worldwide, we feel compelled to lay out some of the baseline implications of embedding human rights into the core of the sustainable development agenda this time around. At its essence, a post-2015 framework anchored in human rights moves from a model of charity to one of justice, based on the inherent dignity of people as human rights-holders, domestic ... mais »
Vit-D
Medscape Medical News Large Review Casts Cloud Over Vitamin-D Health Benefits Nancy A. Melville December 05, 2013 Low concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) are most likely an effect of health disorders and not a cause of illness, concludes a comprehensive review of observational studies and randomized clinical trials of vitamin-D status and health outcomes published online December 6 in *Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.* The new analysis, which included 290 prospective cohort studies of adults aged 18 years or older, showed moderate to strong associations between lower conce... mais »
SBC nova Diretoria 2014-2015
http://www.cardiol.br/newsletter/Carteiro_news/2013/posse/posse-com-diretoria.htm Com votos de Sucesso AMICOR
Mental Health and Primary Care
Why your NHS Mental Health Trust should provide an independent in house Welfare Rights Service. DECEMBER 9, 2013 tags: All Party Parliamentary Group on Mental Health, Centre for Mental Health, Citizens Advice, debt, Jed Boardman, joint strategic needs assessment, jsna, mental health, Norman Lamb, psychosis,Sheffield Health and Social Care Foundation NHS Trust, sheffield mental health CAB, Welfare Rights [image: Blog Welfare Rights and MH]Every year approximately 70,000 people with a Psychosis are supported by the NHS. In most cases while they receive good consistent support from heal... mais »
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