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Benzo 'Boost'

Killing Pain: Benzo 'Boost' Can Be Deadly

Published: Feb 25, 2014 | Updated: Feb 26, 2014

By John Fauber, Reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/MedPage Today; Kristina Fiore , Staff Writer, MedPage Today

NEJM, 1967. Visit our Tranquilizer Nation timeline to see three decades of tranquilizer ads targeting women and various diseases.

Only Michael Moore knew the combination to the safe in his bedroom closet. He had locked up his prescriptions for chronic pain and insomnia so his two young children could not get into them.

As it turned out, it was Moore, 49, who needed the protection.

On Nov. 3, 2012, Moore, a computer analyst from Milwaukee who had suffered a serious knee injury years earlier, died of an accidental overdose. When police opened the safe they found hundreds of two types of prescription pills: opioids and benzodiazepines./.../

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Pain Management

Killing Pain: Script by Script

Published: Feb 27, 2014 | Updated: Feb 28, 2014

By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today; and John Fauber, Reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/MedPage Today

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Primary care doctors wrote about 53 million benzodiazepine prescriptions in 2013, roughly four times the number written by psychiatrists, a group that penned 13 million benzo scripts.

Nurse practitioners and physician assistants were close behind with 11 million prescriptions for the drugs, according to data obtained by MedPage Today and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

In 2013, non-doctors wrote 30 million opioid prescriptions, compared with 92 million written by primary care doctors that year, according to data provided by IMS Health, a drug market research firm.

In 2010, the most recent year for which data were available, 30% of the 16,651 people who died of an opioid overdose also had taken a benzodiazepine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

500 phases of matter

The 500 phases of matter: New system successfully classifies symmetry-protected phases

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December 21, 2012

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Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Artist's impression of a string-net of light and electrons. String-nets are a theoretical kind of topologically ordered matter.

Credit: Xiao-Gang Wen/ Perimeter Institute

Forget solid, liquid, and gas: there are in fact more than 500 phases of matter. In a major paper in a recent issue of Science, Perimeter Faculty member Xiao-Gang Wen reveals a modern reclassification of all of them.

Condensed matter physics -- the branch of physics responsible for discovering and describing most of these phases -- has traditionally classified phases by the way their fundamental building blocks -- usually atoms -- are arranged. The key is something called symmetry./.../

new state of matter

New state of matter seen on cheap

By Roland PeaseBBC Radio Science Unit

Flashes of light can be generated by collapsing bubbles in a fluid

Students and enthusiasts attending a recording for BBC Radio 4 have probably seen a new state of matter only recently discovered, an expert says.

The state of matter is a plasma like those in conventional nuclear fusion tests, but at higher densities.

And far from needing expensive apparatus, the conditions can be achieved in a simple glass tube containing a routine liquid.

The professor behind the demonstration says it can be achieved for a mere £10./.../

Brain's language

The Brain’s Inner Language

By JAMES GORMANFEB. 24, 2014

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Probing the Parliament of Neurons

Clay Reid and colleagues are going deep into the mouse brain to decipher the conversations and decisions of neurons.

SEATTLE — When Clay Reid decided to leave
his job as a professor at Harvard Medical School
to become a senior investigator at the
Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle in 2012,
some of his colleagues congratulated him warmly and
understood right away why he was making the move.

Others shook their heads. He was, after all, leaving one
of the world’s great universities to go to the academic
equivalent of an Internet start-up, albeit an extremely
well- financed, very ambitious one, created in 2003 by
Paul Allen, a founder of Microsoft./.../

mitochondrial manipulation technologies

Genetically Modified Babies

By MARCY DARNOVSKYFEB. 23, 2014

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BERKELEY, CALIF. — AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION IS SET TO BEGIN TWO DAYS OF MEETINGS TOMORROW TO CONSIDER RADICAL BIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES THAT, IF SUCCESSFUL, WOULD PRODUCE G MODIFIED HUMAN BEINGS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STEP. THESE TECHNIQUES WOULD CHANGE EVERY CELL IN THE BODIES OF CHILDREN BORN AS A RESULT OF THEIR USE, AND THESE ALTERATIONS WOULD BE PASSED DOWN TO FUTURE GENERATIONS

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Supernova explosion

NASA's NuSTAR Untangles Mystery of How Stars Explode

February 19, 2014

This is the first map of radioactivity in a supernova remnant, the blown-out bits and pieces of a massive star that exploded. The blue color shows radioactive material mapped in high-energy X-rays using NuSTAR.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/CXC/SAO

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NuSTAR is complementing previous observations of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant (red and green) by providing the first maps of radioactive material forged in the fiery explosion (blue).

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/CXC/SAO

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These illustrations show the progression of a supernova blast. A massive star (left), which has created elements as heavy as iron in its interior, blows up in a tremendous explosion (middle), scattering its outer layers in a structure called a supernova remnant (right).

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NASA/CXC/SAO/JPL-Caltech

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One of the biggest mysteries in astronomy, how stars blow up in supernova explosions, finally is being unraveled with the help of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).

The high-energy X-ray observatory has created the first map of radioactive material in a supernova remnant. The results, from a remnant named Cassiopeia A (Cas A), reveal how shock waves likely rip apart massive dying stars.

Big-Bang (1964)

A pigeon trap, on view at the Air and Space Museum, used by Nobel Prize winners Penzias and Wilson to remove the birds roosting in the radio antenna's large horn. (NASM/SI, Loan from Robert Wilson)

How Two Pigeons Helped Scientists Confirm the Big Bang Theory

For decades, astronomers had debated how the universe began. Then, in 1964, they had their "Eureka!" moment

By Claudia Dreifus

smithsonianmag.com February 19, 2014

“We started out seeking a halo around the Milky Way and we found something else,” 

notes Dr. Wilson. “When an experiment goes wrong, it’s usually the best thing. 

The thing we did see was much more important than what we were looking for. 

This was really the start of modern cosmology.” In fact, Wilson and Penzias were 

awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978 for determining that the hiss they were 

hearing wasn't pigeon poop at all, but the faint whisper of the Big Bang, or the after 

glow that astronomers call the cosmic microwave background.

Heat, light and so much more: After the
Big Bang (below, in an artist's rendition)
came stars and galaxies.
(Photo by David A. Aguilar)

What Astronomers Are Still
Discovering About the Big Bang Theory

A half-century after it was confirmed,
the theory still yields new secrets

By Claudia Dreifus

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On a bright spring morning 50 years ago, two young astronomers at Bell Laboratories
 were tuning a 20-foot, horn-shaped antenna pointed toward the sky over New Jersey.
Their goal was to measure the Milky Way galaxy, home to planet Earth.

To their puzzlement, Robert W. Wilson and Arno A. Penzias heard the insistent hiss of
radio signals coming from every direction—and from beyond the Milky Way. It took a
full year of testing, experimenting and calculating for them and another group of
researchers at Princeton to explain the phenomenon: It was cosmic microwave
background radiation, a residue of the primordial explosion of energy and matter that
suddenly gave rise to the universe some 13.8 billion years ago. The scientists had found
evidence that would confirm the Big Bang theory, first proposed by Georges Lemaître in 1931.

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artificial intelligence

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Building the greatest artificial intelligence lab on Earthby vaughanbell *The Guardian* has an article on technologist Ray Kurzeil's move to Google that also serves to review how the search company are building an artificial intelligence super lab. Google has gone on an unprecedented shopping spree and is in the throes of assembling what looks like the greatest artificial intelligence laboratory on Earth; a laboratory designed to feast upon a resource of a kind that the world has never seen before: truly massive data. Our data. From the minutiae of our lives. Google has bought almost... mais »

John Snow

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Betine Moehlecke Iser Compartilhou: Bem legal esse documentário sobre o inicio da Epidemiologia de campo...John Snow

The Society of Mutual Autopsy

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« Snow-fuelled neurophilosophy The Society of Mutual Autopsy The Society of Mutual Autopsy was an organisation formed in the late 1800s to advance neuroscience by examining dead members’ brains and to promote atheism by breaking sacred taboos. It included some of the great French intellectuals and radicals of the time and became remarkably fashionable – publishing the results in journals and showing plaster-casts of deceased members brains in world fairs. In October 1876, twenty Parisian men joined together as the Society of Mutual Autopsy and pledged to dissect one another’s brains ... mais »

Estatísticas mundiais

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*Recomendação de minha amiga e conterrânea * *Albertina Helena Pires da Rocha* [image: Imagem inline 1]*http://www.ibge.gov.br/paisesat/main.php* *Esta é uma ferramenta fantástica : você pode obter centenas de dados sobre a economia , demografia , condições sociais , os padrões de vida , etc .. de todos os países da Terra. *

José Antônio Brenner

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR EXTENSION - Há 2 dias

Feira do Livro – Homenageados são escolhidos *Brenner vem a ser nosso primo de 5a geração. Nos encontramos no imigrante Johann Friederich Böbion, professor que emigrou com duas filhas: uma delas casada com Schirmer em cuja descendência ele se acha e outra que casou com Adami de onde saímos nos.* *Notícia do Jornal A Razão de hoje:* [image: Foto Juliano Mendes/ A Razão] Foto Juliano Mendes/ A Razão A comissão organizadora da Feira do Livro de Santa Maria divulgou hoje o patrono e homenageados da edição de 2014. O patrono é o pesquisador da história do município, *José Antonio Brenner (f... mais »

Prions and Memory

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 2 dias

Prions Are Key to Preserving Long-Term Memories The famed protein chain reaction that made mad cow disease a terror may be involved in helping to ensure that our recollections don't fade Feb 18, 2014 |By Beth Skwarecki [image: permanent memory] A protein called Tob (*green*) binds and allows another protein, monomeric Orb2A (*red*) to persist intact in a neuron and thereby enable a chain reaction to maintain a permanent memory. *Credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller, Sayo-Art* Prions, the protein family notorious for causing "mad cow" and neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's, can play a... mais »

Why doctors commit suicide

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 3 dias

Why doctors commit suicide PAMELA WIBLE, MD | CONDITIONS | FEBRUARY 18, 2014 [image: Why doctors commit suicide] I’ve been a doctor for twenty years. I’ve not lost a single patient to suicide. I’ve lost only colleagues, friends, lovers — all male physicians — to suicide. Why?/.../

shortage of primary care physicians

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 3 dias

Why is there a shortage of primary care physicians? STEPHEN C. SCHIMPFF, MD | POLICY | FEBRUARY 17, 2014 *Next in a series.* Primary care physicians (PCPs) are becoming extinct. It’s true. Not many medical students choose primary care as their career path. Older PCPs are retiring early. Many others are closing their practices or seeking employment at the local hospital. And there has always been a shortage of primary care physicians in rural and urban poor areas. Today only 30% of all physicians practice primary care (compared to about 70% in most other developed countries and about ... mais »

dor

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Finding that brain uses serotonin to perpetuate chronic pain signals in local nerves may aid development of less addictive medications Sunday 26 January 2014 - 12am PST ------------------------------ email ------------------------------ Setting the stage for possible advances in pain treatment, researchers at The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland report they have pinpointed two molecules involved in perpetuating chronic pain in mice. The molecules, they say, also appear to have a role in the phenomenon that causes uninjured areas of the body to be more sensitiv... mais »

ICD-10

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Practice Management ICD-10 Follies: The Birds Published: Feb 19, 2014 By David Pittman, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today save | A A It is 224 days before the move to ICD-10 becomes a must-do. Lest the deadline slip your mind,*MedPage Today* is spotlighting some of those thousands of new codes that might just be getting a bit too granular. Today's code: W61.92: Struck by other birds (There are also separate billing codes for being struck by parrots, macaws, psittacines, chickens, geese, and ducks. W61.92 is for all other types of birds. Here is a re-enactment for your viewing ple... mais »

Violence

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Syria’s war must endBy Stephen Hawking, Published: February 14 Stephen Hawking is the author of “A Brief History of Time” and a former professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge. The Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that the universe had existed forever. The reason humanity was not more developed, he believed, was that floods or other natural disasters repeatedly set civilization back to the beginning. Today, humans are developing ever faster. Our knowledge is growing exponentially and with it, our technology. But humans still have the instincts, and in particular th... mais »

Fibromuscular Dysplasia

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*Fibromuscular Dysplasia: State of the Science and Critical Unanswered Questions* : State of the Science and Critical Unanswered Questions A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association Jeffrey W. Olin, DO, FAHA, Co-Chair;

Museu da História da Medicina

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*Projetos MUHM: ajude a construir esta história* Os projetos do Museu de História da Medicina do Rio Grande do Sul já aprovados pelo Ministério da Cultura envolvem a produção de um livro sobre o acervo do Museu; uma exposição itinerante - "Mulheres e Práticas de Saúde: Medicina e fé no universo feminino" - que passará por 30 cidades; uma série de entrevistas com médicos para o projeto de história oral do MUHM; e o Natal na Praça Dom Sebastião - evento voltado para os pequenos pacientes do Hospita...

Addictive Games

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Disruptions: Using Addictive Games to Build Better BrainsBy NICK BILTON [image: For weeks, Flappy Bird nested atop the most downloaded app charts for Apple and Android mobile devices before it was suddenly pulled by its creator.] Casinos mastered the art of the game long ago. We know the odds are against us, but we play anyway. In Las Vegas and elsewhere, the slot machines beckon with their bright lights and the promise of hitting that elusive jackpot. The temperature is kept cool. There are no clocks to remind us that it’s getting late. Drinks are free. ................................. mais »