100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time
[image: Bookmarks] [image: The full list, from Naomi Klein to the Bible] 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time / The full list, from Naomi Klein to the Bible After two years of careful consideration, Robert McCrum has concluded his selection of the 100 greatest nonfiction books of all time. Take a quick look back at five centuries of great writing
Statins?
*Recomendado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja* You’re Over 75, and You’re Healthy. Why Are You Taking a Statin? Image[image: The New Old Age] By Paula Span Jan. 5, 2018 Should a 76-year-old who doesn’t have heart disease, but does have certain risk factors for developing it, take a statin to ward off heart attacks or strokes? You’d think we’d have a solid answer to this question. These widely prescribed medications lower cholesterol to reduce cardiovascular disease, the nation’s most common killer, and get much of the credit for the nation’s plummeting rates of heart attacks and... mais »
Computer chips flows
What You Need to Do Because of Flaws in Computer Chips By CADE METZ and BRIAN X. CHENJAN. 4, 2018
Nurses’ Health Study 40 years
How a 40-Year-Old Study on “The Pill” Became the World’s Largest and Longest-Running Study of Health and WellnessThe Nurses’ Health Study, which started with 120,000 women in the mid 1970s, has irrevocably impacted how we understand diabetes, heart disease and cancers. Highlights: → The Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) began in 1976, with one clear purpose, to find "whether there are long term health effects of various forms of contraception." → NHS data led to monumental scientific contributions, including pivotal insights into the health effects of trans fat, how lifestyle influences canc... mais »
What kids eat...
What Kids Eat Around the World In the face of rising global obesity, photographer Gregg Segal traveled around the world to ask kids what they eat in one week and then photographed them alongside the food. Photographs and text by Gregg Segal In an 8×8 aluminum hut on a construction site outside Mumbai, Anchal Sahni sits down to dinner with her family: homemade aloo bhindo (okra and potatoes simmered in curry) and chapati (flatbread) with a side of lentils. Anchal has a healthier diet than many middle-class kids in India, who can afford to eat out. In Mumbai, a medium Domino’s pizza run... mais »
Ancient (11 500 years) human DNA
Alaska discovery rewrites the human story An infant’s bones that had lain undisturbed for 11,500 years in Alaska have shed new light on the ancient humans that crossed to North America over a land bridge from Asia. Researchers managed to sequence the remains' DNA, which gave them second-oldest human genome ever found on the continent. It indicates that there was a previously unknown population that diverged genetically from the ancestors of Native Americans about 20,000 years ago. The New York Times | 10 min read Reference: Nature paper
Sanskrit effect
- - A Neuroscientist Explores the "Sanskrit Effect" *MRI scans show that memorizing ancient mantras increases the size of brain regions associated with cognitive function * - By James Hartzell on January 2, 2018 [image: A Neuroscientist Explores the "Sanskrit Effect"] Manjuvajramandala with 43 deities, from Tibet. *Credit: Google Cultural Institute Wikimedia* A hundred dhoti-clad young men sat cross-legged on the floor in facing rows, chatting amongst themselves. At a sign from their teacher the hall went quiet. Then they began the recitation. Witho... mais »
Chronic Pain
The Chronification of Pain *When physical agony persists without an evident cause, the culprit may be how the sufferer’s brain is wired* [image: The Chronification of Pain]*Credit: Roy Hsu Getty Images* By Daniel Barron on December 29, 2017 Earlier this year, I wrote about my patient, Andrew, an engineer who developed a heroin habit. An unfortunate series of joint replacements had left Andrew with terrible pain and, when his medication ran out, he turned to heroin. Months after his surgeries—after his tissue and scars had healed—Andrew remained disabled by a deep, biting pain. I recal... mais »
Do massage works?
Do Massages Have Real Health Benefits? By MARKHAM HEID 11:10 AM EST TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. Go looking for proof that a massage will improve your health, and you’ll have no trouble finding research to back you up. From easing muscle soreness after exercise to reducing stress, dozens of studies—stretching back several decades—have linked massage with real physical and psychological benefits. One Australian study found that a 10-minute muscle massage after a workout could reduce soreness by 30%. A separate review study on massage found that levels of the stress hormo... mais »
AD and Genetics
Genetic Factors that Contribute to Alzheimer’s Identifiedby Neuroscience News Boston University School of Medicine researchers have identified several new genes associated with Alzheimer's disease, including some which may cause functional and structural alterations in the brain. The findings could help to shed light on the processes leading up to the development of the neurodegenerative disease. Read more of this post *Neuroscience News* | January 3, 2018 at 9:36 am | Tags: mild cognitive impairement | URL: https://wp.me/p4sXNK-bWX Comment See all comments
Terminal Decline...
January 2018 Decreasing Blood Pressure in Older Patients James S. Goodwin, MD1 Author Affiliations JAMA Intern Med. 2018;178(1):100-101. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.7035 related articles icon Related Articles - FullText One of my patients, a woman in her late 80s, has required 4 drugs at high doses for many years to keep her systolic blood pressure under 160 mm Hg. Over a 3-month period earlier this year, she went from 4 drugs to 1, with her systolic blood pressure now under 140 mm Hg. She and her family are ecstatic; I, less so. It has been known for many years that decr... mais »
Tought provoking questions...
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Diabetes Drug and AD
Diabetes Drug ‘Significantly Reverses Memory Loss’ in Alzheimer’s: Mouse Studyby Neuroscience News Lancaster University researchers report a drug developed to treat diabetes shows promise in reversing memory loss associated with Alzheimer's in mouse models of the disease. The drug appears to have a neuroprotective effect, enhancing brain growth factors while reducing amyloid plaques, chronic inflammation and oxidative stress. The drug also slows down the rate of neuron loss. Read more of this post *Neuroscience News* | January 2, 2018 at 10:40 am | Tags: amyloid-beta, APP/PS1, Gcg, ... mais »
Neuroscience 2017
Top 20 Neuroscience News Stories of 2017by Neuroscience News 2018 is almost upon us. We thought it would be a good time to take a look back at some of the most popular Neuroscience News stories of 2017. Read more of this post *Neuroscience News* | January 2, 2018 at 6:21 am | Tags: sleep cycle | URL: https://wp.me/p4sXNK-bVV Comment See all comments
Ervas medicinais, escrito há um milênio
*Recomendado por nossa filha Lúcia Helena Robinson Achutti* [image: Revista Prosa Verso e Arte]Escrito há 1000 anos, o manuscrito ilustrado de ervas medicinais é disponibilizado online Por Revista Prosa Verso e Arte - Saúde e bem-estar - Apesar de a medicina ocidental ter se especializado na criação de fármacos produzidos a partir de processos complexos, houve um tempo em que todos os tratamentos eram feitos com compostos naturais, especialmente ervas e outros alimentos. E um dos guias mais antigos que se conhece sobre essas práticas acaba de ser disponibilizado na inte... mais »
Serverless Computing
Applause from Théo Szymkowiak How Serverless Computing will Change the World in 2018 Serverless computing is a fairly new concept that has somewhat exploded in terms of popularity. This is in-part due to AWS’ Serverless… [image: Elliot Forbes] Elliot Forbes in Hacker Noon 4 min read
Syrian and Lebanese immigration to RS
[image: Julio B Francisco] *Julio B Francisco **Parabéns ao Patrício!...* Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departament of Information Science, Faculty Member From de Cedars to the Pampas: Syrian and Lebanese immigration to Rio Grande do Sul State/Brazil (1890-1949) This thesis refers to the history and the memory of Syrian-Lebanese immigration in Rio Grande do Sul, in the period from the last decade of the nineteenth century to the 1940s, more precisely between the years of 1890 and 1949, a temporal lapse that corresponds to two generations of immigrants, between their a... mais »
2017: Science Stories
Colliding neutron stars, gene editing, human origins and more top stories of 2017 A gravitational wave discovery is the year’s biggest science story — again BY SCIENCE NEWS STAFF 8:32AM, DECEMBER 13, 2017 [image: illustration of neutron star collision] CI LAB/NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER Magazine issue: Vol. 192, No. 11, December 23, 2017, p. 18 - Email - Print - Twitter - Facebook - Reddit - Google+ In science, progress rarely comes in one big shebang. Well, it has now, two years running. The first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves, our top story in ... mais »
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