Cancer
Why Everyone Seems to Have Cancer Jillian Tamaki By GEORGE JOHNSONPublished: January 4, 2014 31 Comment - EVERY New Year when the government publishes its Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, it is followed by a familiar lament. We are losing the war against cancer./.../
50 War on Poverty
50 Years Later, War on Poverty Is a Mixed BagBy ANNIE LOWREYPublished: January 4, 2014 - Mapping Poverty in America Graphic 50 Years of Poverty WASHINGTON — To many Americans, the war on poverty declared 50 years ago by President Lyndon B. Johnson has largely failed. The poverty rate has fallen only to 15 percent from 19 percent in two generations, and 46 million Americans live in households where the government considers their income scarcely adequate. But looked at a different way, the federal government has succeeded in preventing the poverty rate from climbin... mais »
Breast Cancer
Ask Ray | Study shows a 30% lower rate of breast cancer mortality with supplement use December 30, 2013 by Terry Grossman [image: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment cover] Dear readers, Here is a study coming out of the large and well respected Women’s Health Initiative showing positive results for supplements and breast cancer. Unfortunately, the media has largely ignored it. It seems there is a strong media bias to headline studies suggesting negative or no benefit results and to ignore positive ones that … more…
Smalllest PM
First human implant of world’s smallest, minimally invasive cardiac pacemaker December 30, 2013 [image: Micra Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS), world's smallest heart pacemaker (credit: Medronic)] Medtronic, Inc. has announced the first-in-human implant of the world’s smallest pacemaker: the Micra Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS). The device was implanted in a patient in Linz, Austria as part of the Medtronic global pivotal clinical trial. The Micra TPS is an investigational device worldwide. At one-tenth the size of a conventional pacemaker, and comparable … more…
Controlling aging genes
Turning off the ‘aging genes’ Computer algorithm developed by TAU researchers identifies genes that could be transformed to stop the aging process January 3, 2014 Tel Aviv University researchers have developed a computer algorithm that predicts which genes can be “turned off” to create the same anti-aging effect as calorie restriction*. The findings, reported in *Nature Communications*, could lead to the development of new drugs to treat aging. “Most algorithms try to find drug targets that kill cells to treat cancer or bacterial infections,” says Keren Yizhak, a doctoral student in Pr... mais »
04 janeiro de 2014
Nesta data: aniversário de nosso filho *Luiz Eduardo Robinson Achutti* de seu filho - o mais jovem de nossos quatro netos - *Eduardo Bellardinelli Achutti*. Montagem com fotos de ambos, de diversas épocas
Whistle-Blowing
Edward Snowden, Whistle-BlowerBy THE EDITORIAL BOARDPublished: January 1, 2014 161 Comments - Seven months ago, the world began to learn the vast scope of the National Security Agency’s reach into the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the United States and around the globe, as it collects information about their phone calls, their email messages, their friends and contacts, how they spend their days and where they spend their nights. The public learned in great detail how the agency has exceeded its mandate and abused its authority, prompting outrage at kitchen tables... mais »
Vitamin E
New Hope for Vitamin E: Supplements May Slow Symptoms of Alzheimer’s By Alexandra Sifferlin @acsifferlinDec. 31, 20133 Comments [image: 89593904] Getty Images For patients with mild to moderate forms of the neurodegenerative disorder, a daily dose of 2,000 IUs of vitamin E safely and effectively slowed the functional decline of Alzheimer’s, according to the study published in *JAMA*.The latest study shows vitamin E may have more benefits than memory drugs in combating the disease. Researchers from the Minneapolis VA Health Care System split a group of 613 Alzheimer’s patients at ... mais »
Smoking and SE position
Association of socioeconomic position with smoking and mortality: the contribution of early life circumstances in the 1946 birth cohort + Author Affiliations 1. 1Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, UK 2. 2New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand 3. 3MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, London, UK 1. Correspondence to Ingrid Giesinger, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 6BT, UK; i.giesinger.11@alumni.ucl.ac.uk - Receiv... mais »
Open Access publications
COVER Editors' Wishes for an Illuminated Season and an Open New Year Image Credit: Vicky WJ, Flickr [image: Issue Image] The past year has seen rapid acceleration in the rise of social media, in scholarly communication, and growing momentum behind the expectation of open data from all clinical trials, but also increasing reports of competing interests that compromise the integrity of the medical literature and continued frustration with paywall barriers. In their editorial for December 2013, the *PLOS Medicine* Editors reflect on recent advances in open access to medical research and i... mais »
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