Global Health
*Por recomendação de Cristianne Famer Rocha* *6th Annual Global Health Conference* Mobilizing Research for Global Health Sheraton Boston Hotel | Boston, MA March 26-28, 2015 *CALL FOR ABSTRACTS* *and* *SAVE THE DATE*
About Risk and Personality
What Children Can Teach Us About Risk, Failure, and Personal Growth*by Maria Popova* *“Our fear of failure … assures the progressive narrowing of the personality.”* *“If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt,”* E.F. Schumacher wrote in his timelessly wonderful *A Guide for the Perplexed* in 1977, *“I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life.”* In the decades since, the notion of embracing risk and failure has become one of the most common t... mais »
Blood-brain-barrier
Blood-brain-barrier disruption with high-frequency pulsed electric fields August 14, 2014 [image: A cortical microvessel stained for blood–brain barrier protein ZO-1 (credit: Nathan S. Ivey/Wikimedia Commons/)] A team of researchers from Virginia Tech and Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences have developed a new technique for using pulsed electric energy to open the blood-brain-barrier (BBB) for treating brain cancer and neurological disorders. Their Vascular Enabled Integrated Nanosecond pulse (VEIN pulse) procedure consists of inserting minimally inva... mais »
Black Hole
- [image: The Black Hole That Birthed the Big Bang]The Black Hole at the Beginning of TimeIs the big bang, and all that came from it, a holographic mirage from another dimension? Niayesh Afshordi, Robert B. Mann and Razieh Pourhasan|August 1, 2014| 32 PLUS: All You Need to Know about Gravitational Waves
The Most Distant Star
[image: stars at the edge of the galaxy]Far Out: The Most Distant Star in the Milky Way A star 890,000 light-years away patrols our galactic frontier Aug 11, 2014 |By Ken Croswell *FAINT AND FAR: *Lying 890,000 light-years from Earth, the ruddy star at center is the most distant object ever seen in our galaxy. *Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey* Just as every planet in the solar system orbits the sun, so every star in the Milky Way orbits the big black hole at our galaxy's center. But how far out does the Milky Way extend? Astronomers are closer to answering that question with the d... mais »
Strongest Muscle
Fact or Fiction?: The Tongue Is the Strongest Muscle in the Body Is this agile appendage as brawny as people believe? Aug 15, 2014 |By Julia Calderone and Ben Fogelson [image: little girl with tongue sticking out] *Credit: Johan Larsson via Flickr* It can bend, it can twist, it can suck, it can cup. The tongue is an essential, often playful part of human anatomy. Many of us grew up believing the assertion that the tongue is the strongest muscle in the body. But is it really? The short answer is no. But the explanation is not as straightforward as you’d think. We asked a few tongue e... mais »
Jeremiah Stamler Celebration
Father of the Preventive Cardiology
Gray's Anatomy
Henry Gray's *Anatomy of the Human Body*, commonly known as *Gray's Anatomy*, is widely regarded as a classic medical reference book. Due to the Anatomy Act of 1832, Henry Gray—an anatomist and teacher in London—was able to dissect unclaimed corpses from workhouses and form the basis of his book. First published under the title *Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical* in 1858, his text has been expanded and reprinted numerous times. What disease claimed Gray's life when he was only 34? More... mais »
Parenting
*A Hipótese que David Barker levantou tem dimensões bem maiores e mais profundas do que simplesmente as do domínio biológico (em sentido estrito). * [image: This week's cover]SPECIAL ISSUE | 15 AUGUST 2014Parenting - Table of Contents - About the Cover - More Special Issues INTRODUCTION—*Science*'s special section on parenting addresses how parents of any species pass on their DNA, but the biology of parenting and its impacts on the offspring don’t end at birth. Animal parenting behaviors, molecular legacy, and gestation and birthing processes are all highlighted in this i... mais »
More Exercise?
More Exercise Isn't Always Better A new report published in *Mayo Clinic Proceedings* finds there may be an upper limit to how helpful exercise can be on your heart
Dosagem de Vitamina D3
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine A Predictive Equation to Guide Vitamin D Replacement Dose in Patients Gurmukh Singh, MD, PhD, MBA, Aaron J. Bonham, MS Disclosures J Am Board Fam Med. 2014;27(4):495-509.
WB: Inequality
http://data.worldbank.org/ [image: Video: The Data Minute: What is Inequality of Opportunity?] VIDEO The Data Minute: What Is Inequality of Opportunity?
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