Darwin’s Anxiety
Darwin’s Battle with Anxiety*by Maria Popova* *A posthumous diagnosis of the paralyzing mental malady that afflicted one of humanity’s greatest minds.* *Charles Darwin* was undoubtedly among the most significant thinkers humanity has ever produced. But he was also a man of peculiar mental habits, from his stringent daily routineto his despairingly despondent moods to his obsessive list of the pros and cons of marriage. Those, it turns out, may have been simply Darwin’s best adaptation strategy for controlling a malady that dominated his life, the same one that afflicted Vincent van Go... mais »
Postpericardiotomy Syndrome
Original Investigation | August 30, 2014 Colchicine for Prevention of Postpericardiotomy Syndrome and Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation: The COPPS-2 Randomized Clinical Trial FREE ONLINE FIRST Massimo Imazio, MD, et al. ABSTRACT *Importance* Postpericardiotomy syndrome, postoperative atrial fibrillation (AF), and postoperative effusions may be responsible for increased morbidity and health care costs after cardiac surgery. Postoperative use of colchicine prevented these complications in a single trial. *Objective* To determine the efficacy and safety of perioperative use of or... mais »
Neprilysin Inhibition in HF
Neprilysin Inhibition — A Novel Therapy for Heart Failure Mariell Jessup, M.D. August 30, 2014DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1409898 ArticleReferences The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last approved a new oral drug (hydralazine–isosorbide dinitrate) for patients with heart failure and a reduced ejection fraction in 2005 — and this drug was recommended only for self-identified black patients who continued to have symptoms despite evidence-based treatment.1 The angiotensin-receptor blocker eplerenone was approved for the treatment of heart failure in 2003. (In 2012, the European Medicines Agen... mais »
BR > 200.000.000
IBGEPopulação brasileira passa dos 200 milhões Segundo dados do IBGE, somos 202.768.562 de habitantes. Quase 50 milhões vivem em capitais, a mais populosa delas é São Paulo por Redação — publicado 28/08/2014 09:35 inShare IBGE [image: Mapa populacional brasileiro] Os dados são estimativas para o dia 1º de julho de 2014/.../
Congresso Internacional de Geografia da Saúde
*Enviado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja*
Lipids
------------------------------ LDL Cholesterol: Controversies and Future Therapeutic DirectionsRidker PM. *Lancet* 2014;384;607-617.*Perspective: *This article is the first in a series on lipids and cardiovascular disease (CVD). The following are 10 points to remember from a review about low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol: * Read More >>>*HDL and Cardiovascular DiseaseRader DJ, Hovingh KG. *Lancet *2014;384:618-625.*Perspective: *This article is the second in a series on lipids and cardiovascular disease (CVD). The following are 10 points to remember about high-density lipopr... mais »
Multiverse: Quanta
SCIENCE - multiverse - Quanta Magazine - Simons Science News - FOLLOW WIRED - Twitter - Facebook - RSS Radical New Theory Could Kill the Multiverse Hypothesis *Hypescience* - BY NATALIE WOLCHOVER, QUANTA MAGAZINE - 08.25.14 | - 6:30 AM | - PERMALINK [image: 694341main1_m69Full] Globular cluster Messier 69. ESA/NASA Though galaxies look larger than atoms and elephants appear to outweigh ants, some physicists have begun to suspect that size differences are illusory. Perhaps the fundamental description of the universe does n... mais »
DOR
Enzima altera sensibilidade à dor Descoberta pode dar origem a medicamento que não causa dependência RODRIGO DE OLIVEIRA ANDRADE | Edição Online 15:02 27 de agosto de 2014 © B. SMALL/ UNIVERSIDADE STANFORD [image: Alteração em gene da enzima ALDH2 aumentou a sensibilidade de camundongos a episódios de dor] Alteração em gene da enzima ALDH2 aumentou a sensibilidade de camundongos a episódios de dor A ativação de uma enzima conhecida como aldeído desidrogenase-2 (ALDH2), essencial para o metabolismo do álcool, pode também determinar o quanto somos sensíveis à dor, segundo umestudo public... mais »
Heart Diseases and Stroke Statistics 2014
[image: 2014 Statistical Update 2] < a href="http://broadcaster.medpagetoday.com/t?r=2&c=34447&l=368&ctl=A5B12:F9C67B0472B34F696242ECB1D01CE51D&" style="color:#bf1e2e;font-weight:bold;font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;text-decoration:none;">Heart Disease & Stroke Statistics – 2014 UpdateThe most up-to-date statistics on heart disease, stroke, other vascular diseases. Read More
Human Origins
The New Science of Human Origins Awash in fresh insights, scientists have had to revise virtually every chapter of the human story Aug 19, 2014 |By Kate Wong [image: skull]*Credit: Katy Wiedemann* More In This Article - [image: The Most Incredible Human Evolution Discoveries of the New Millennium]The Most Incredible Human Evolution Discoveries of the New Millennium Through the Post Box, up the Dragon's Back, down the Chute and over to the Puzzle Box. Last fall the world followed, via tweets, blogs and videos, as scientists negotiated these fancifully named landmarks of t... mais »
Nanoparticles
Beyond Asbestos: Autoimmunity, Pollution, and Particles Published: Aug 13, 2014 By Nancy Walsh, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner Action Points - There is some evidence that particulate air pollution may influence risk for and expression of autoimmune disease. - A particular role for nanoparticles in human disease has not been established. Recently, I wrote an article about some interesting research being done by... mais »
Adrenaline
Adrenaline: The Best and Worst of Drugs By MedPage Today Staff Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco *John P. Higgins MD, MBA, MPHIL, is associate professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and director of exercise physiology, Memorial Hermann Ironman Sports Medicine Institute. He's also chief of cardiology at Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital.* Action Points - Despite it being the first-line adrenergic drug for patients with cardiac arrest, few studies in humans h... mais »
Cosmic Rotation
Where does cosmic rotation come from? From atoms to solar systems to galaxies, everything seems to have rotation and revolution. Where does that come from? Image credit: Fermilab / DOE / Dark Energy camera; Dark Energy Survey.
Serendipty
*Serendipidade*, também conhecido como *Serendipismo*, *Serendiptismo* ou ainda *Serendipitia*, é um anglicismo que se refere às descobertas afortunadas feitas, aparentemente, por acaso. A história da ciência está repleta de casos que podem ser classificados como *serendipismo*. O conceito original de *serendipismo* foi muito usado em sua origem. Nos dias de hoje, é considerado como uma forma especial de criatividade, ou uma das muitas técnicas de desenvolvimento do potencial criativo de uma pessoa adulta, que alia perseverança, inteligência e senso de observação. “*O acaso só favore...mais »
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