Prática da Ajuda
*Da semana que passou:* *14.03.2018* Assisti ontem a conferencista *Elizabeth Torresini*, sobre o tema *“A formação Médica no RS 1898-1931”*. Foi uma longa jornada na cultura médica ocidental, passando por várias etapas, desde o misticismo até o primado científico que julgamos ser o paradigma mais evoluído. *15.03.2018* Hoje encontrei na publicação da *Enciclopédia Britânica*, nos lembretes de fatos do mesmo dia calendário, artigo sobre *Franciscus Sylvius* *http://amicor.blogspot.com.br/2018/03/franciscus-sylvius-march-15-1614-hanau.htm* l que teria contribuído de maneira substancial... mais »
March 12, 2018 Big Data and Machine Learning in Health Care Andrew L. Beam, PhD1; Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD1 Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA. Published online March 12, 2018. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.18391 Nearly all aspects of modern life are in some way being changed by big data and machine learning. Netflix knows what movies people like to watch and Google knows what people want to know based on their search histories. Indeed, Google has recently begun to replace much of its existing non–machine learning technology with machine learning algorithms, and there is great optimi... mais »
Antibiotic Aneurysm Risk
Antibiotic Aneurysm Risk; Real-World Endovasc Tx; Hospital PerformanceCardiovascular Daily wraps up the top cardiology news of the week - SAVESAVED - - - - - - by Crystal Phend, Senior Associate Editor, MedPage TodayMarch 16, 2018 - This article is a collaboration between MedPage Today® and: [image: Medpage Today] One of the most commonly used class of antibiotics -- fluoroquinolones -- are associated with aortic aneurysm and dissection, a population-based study from Sweden reported in *The BMJ*. In a propensity-score matched analysis, the hazard rati... mais »
CV Fitness and Dementia
Saturday, March 17, 2018 High Cardiovascular Fitness May Fend Off Dementia Very fit women had 90% lower dementia risk decades later Judy George, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today - March 14, 2018 Highly fit women in midlife were nearly 90% less likely to have dementia decades later, a prospective study in Sweden found.
UFRGS Academic Reputaion
From: Roger dos Santos Rosa E com todas as nossas deficiências e limitações, a UFRGS ainda é a 6ª na América Latina no "2017 Academic Reputation Survey" (p. 14, tab. 6) ...: https://clarivate.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/M129-Cvr_WoS_WhitePaper_US_004.pdf
The Universe in Verse
The Universe in Verse APRIL 28, 2018 *“The real wealth of the Nation,”* marine biologist and author Rachel Carson wrote in courageous 1953 protest letter, *“lies in the resources of the earth — soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife… Their administration is not properly, and cannot be, a matter of politics.”* Carson’s legacy inspired the creation of Earth Day and the founding of the Environmental Protection Agency, whose hard-won environmental regulations are now being undone in the hands of the current political administration. Carson was a scientist who thought and wrote like... mais »
Health-Care Profits
Which Firms Profit Most From America’s Health-Care System It is not pharmaceutical companies The Economist4 min read Photo: Pablo_K/Getty Images Every year America spends about $5,000 more per person on health care than other rich countries do. Yet its people are not any healthier. Where does all the money go? One explanation is waste, with patients wolfing down too many pills and administrators churning out red tape. There is also the cost of services that may be popular and legitimate but do nothing to improve medical outcomes. Manhattan’s hospitals, with their swish reception d... mais »
Daytime Sleepiness
Excessive Daytime Sleepiness and β-Amyloid Accumulation in Elderly Persons Without Dementia JAMA Neurology This cohort analysis assesses whether excessive daytime sleepiness at baseline is associated with longitudinal regional β-amyloid accumulation in elderly persons without dementia. Waking Up to the Importance of Sleep in the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer Disease (Editorial)
Health Care Spending
[image: Weekly Highlights from The JAMA Network Reader - Selected journal articles from across the 11 JAMA Network clinical research journals][image: Advertisement] Weekly Highlights MARCH 17, 2018 [image: facebook icon] [image: twitter icon] [image: linked in icon] [image: google plus icon] [image: pinterest icon] [image: youtube icon] These featured articles published during the past week have been selected by our editors. Click below to read them for free on the JAMA Network Reader. CLINICAL REVIEW & EDUCATION Health Care Spending in the United States and Other High-Income Countr... mais »
Brain Back-up
Neuroscientists devise scheme for mind-uploading centuries in the future March 14, 2018 [image: Representative electron micrograph of white matter region in cryopreserved pig brain (credit: Brain Preservation Foundation)] But first, they have to kill you with embalming fluid, inject antifreeze, and keep your brain at -130 degrees C In a scenario (almost) right out of the show Altered Carbon, two researchers — Robert McIntyre, an MIT graduate, and Gregory M. Fahy, PhD., 21st Century Medicine (21CM) Chief Scientific Officer, have developed a method for scanning a preserved brain’s con... mais »
Minimalist machine learning
‘Minimalist machine learning’ algorithm analyzes complex microscopy and other images from very little data March 16, 2018 [image: These are images of a slice of mouse lymphblastoid cells; a. is the raw data, b is the corresponding manual segmentation and c is the output of an MS-D network with 100 layers. (credit: Data from A. Ekman and C. Larabell, National Center for X-ray Tomography.)] Key tool for Chan-Zuckerberg-sponsored Human Cell Atlas project Mathematicians at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a radical new approach to machine learning: a n... mais »
Backward Time?...
*Universe Today* Verified account @universetoday 53m53 minutes ago More We Still Don’t Understand Why Time Only Flows Forward https:// medium.com/starts-with-a- bang/we-still-dont-understand-why-time-only-flows-forward-1187a8367d74 … by @StartsWithABang
LITERATURA & MEDICINA
*ACADEMIA SUL-RIO-GRANDENSE DE MEDICINA* *CONVITE - ENCONTRO LITERATURA & MEDICINA* Convidamos os Senhores Acadêmicos a participarem do nosso próximo Encontro Literário na Academia. Data: 20 de março de 2018 - terça-feira Horário: 17:30 – 19:00 Horas Local: Sede da Academia de Medicina Rua Bernardo Pires, 280 – Sala 402 - 4º andar Estacionamento do CREMERS Deverão se inscrever com antecedência - lugares limitados (20 lugares). Será servido chá da tarde, ao início da sessão. Palestrantes: 1) *Acadêmica Miriam da Costa Oliveira, tema: “Porto Alegre em Pormenores”.* ... mais »
Reputation Era
Say goodbye to the information age: it’s all about reputation now *Gloria Origgi is an Italian philosopher, and a tenured senior researcher at CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research) in Paris. Her latest book is Reputation: What It Is and Why It Matters (2017), translated by Stephen Holmes and Noga Arikha.* *Published in association with Princeton University Press an Aeon Partner *1,200 words Edited by Nigel Warburton [image: Not faking it. From the Apollo 15 mission. Photo NASA] Not faking it. From the Apollo 15 mission. *Photo NASA* There is an underapprec... mais »
Albert Einstein quotations
Thus spake Albert*You probably know a quote from him. He probably never said it. How did Einstein become a touchstone of all that is wise?* Andrew Robinson is a journalist and author. His writing has appeared in *The Financial Times*, *The Guardian*, *The Independent*, *Nature* and *The New York Times*, among others. His books include *Einstein: A Hundred Years of Relativity* (2015). 3,600 words Edited by Marina Benjamin n late 2017, a sheet of paper bearing a 13-word sentence in German in the original handwriting of Albert Einstein went on sale at an auction house in Jerusalem. The c... mais »
Internet das Coisas
*A internet para além das telas* Primeiro foram os computadores a se conectarem à rede global. Depois os smartphones. Agora tudo está conectado, dos carros aos relógios de pulso, e isso é parte da chamada Internet das Coisas (IoT, do inglês Internet of Things). No Brasil o boom da IoT está apenas começando. Confira neste e-book o que é Internet das Coisas e quais são os caminhos possíveis para o ingresso neste mercado de tecnologia em constante evolução. *ACESSE AGORA »*
Blood Pressure
Accurate Cuff-less Blood Pressure Measurement on a Smartphone [image: Accurate Cuff-less Blood Pressure Measurement on a Smartphone] Blood pressure is a critical vital sign and patients, particularly those with cardiovascular conditions, are often directed to take readings on their own on a regular basis. Of course too few of them do as prescribed, and the lack of motivation has a lot to do with the fact that blood pressure measurement devices tend to be bulky, unwieldy, and … Read more... mais »
Catholic Church power
Economist Films Is the world’s smallest country home to the world’s most influential government? WE ASK THE MAN BEHIND THE VATICAN’S FOREIGN POLICY How powerful is the Catholic Church? Is the world’s smallest country home to the world’s most influential government? We ask the man behind the Vatican’s foreign policy
New World Health Era
*Equity & Health* @equitylist FollowingFollowing @equitylist More A New World Health Era @ampablos @M_Raviglione #GlobalHealth http://www. ghspjournal.org/content/ghsp/early/2018/03/14/GHSP-D-17-00297.full.pdf … 12:08 PM - 15 Mar 2018 -
Plastic bottles
*Sir Michael Marmot* @MichaelMarmot FollowFollow @MichaelMarmot More When you drink a bottle of water you might, literally, be drinking the bottle - plastic found in the water of some but not all brands. [image: Bottles of water] 7:17 AM - 15 Mar 2018 -
Ides of March
[image: Ides of March One-Day Sale] *Free US shipping* on orders of $19.95 or more *Augustus*, the National Book Award–winning novel by John Williams, is on special offer today, along with fourteen other books about power and paranoia, reactionaries and revolutionaries, resisters and rogues, alternative and historical fiction, and more. Browse the books
Franciscus Sylvius March 15, 1614, Hanau, Ger.— Nov. 15, 1672, Leiden, Neth
*From Britannica:* Franciscus Sylvius GERMAN PHYSICIAN WRITTEN BY: - The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica LAST UPDATED: 3-8-2018 See Article History Alternative Titles: François De le Boë, François du Bois, Franz De le Boë, Franz du Bois Franciscus Sylvius, also called Franz, or François, De le Boë, or Du Bois, (born March 15, 1614, Hanau, Ger.—died Nov. 15, 1672, Leiden, Neth.), physician, physiologist, anatomist, and chemist who is considered the founder of the 17th-century iatrochemical school of medicine, which held that all phenomena of life and disease are based on ch... mais »
Pi
MAR. 14, 2018 AT 5:58 AM Even After 22 Trillion Digits, We’re Still No Closer To The End Of Pi By Oliver Roeder Filed under Math - - - [image: 0314_PIday_4x3] There have been just a few more digits added to pi since Archimedes got to 3.141. ILLUSTRATION BY LINDA TRAN TUTOVAN / GETTY IMAGES Depending on your philosophical views on time and calendars and so on, today is something like the 4.5 billionth Pi Day that Earth has witnessed. But that long history is nothing compared to the infinity of pi itself. A refresher for those of you who have forgotten your seventh-grade mat... mais »
Menopausal Flushing
Novel Oral Tx Dramatically Reduces Menopausal FlushingTreatment part of new class of neurokinin 3 receptor antagonists - SAVESAVED - - - - - - by Kristen Monaco, Staff Writer, MedPage TodayMarch 14, 2018 A neurokinin 3 receptor (NK3R) antagonist was effective at improving vasomotor symptoms without the need for estrogen exposure, both in the short and long-term, researchers reported. The oral NK3R antagonist MLE4901 was able to reduce the frequency of hot flashes by 72% by day 3 of treatment versus baseline symptoms (95% CI -81.3% to -63.5%) and a 51% imp... mais »
Stephen Hawking (8 de janeiro de 1942 – Cambridge, 14 de março de 2018)
[image: Image] *Morre Stephen Hawking, o gênio pop da física* Cientista britânico, que apresentou os mistérios do universo a milhões de leitores, tinha 76 anos e sofria de uma doença degenerativa *Leia mais →* Stephen Hawking, in His Own Words “I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.” Image In 2007, when he was 65, Stephen Hawking took part in a zero-gravity flight. Asked why he took such risks, he said, “I want to show that people need not be limited by physical handicaps as long as they are not disabled in spirit.”CreditZero Gravity ... mais »
aging muscle wasting
Inevitable muscle wasting of old age could be stopped, scientists believe - Sarah Knapton, science editor 12 MARCH 2018 • 12:01AM The inevitable muscle wasting of old age could be stopped, scientists believe, after discovering why people become frail as they grow older. Most people become weaker in their later years, as their leg muscles get smaller and less able to bear weight, which often leads to disability and falls. But until now, nobody has known why the process happens or if it can be reversed. - - - -
Non functional genes?
*Life Doesn't make trash* Martin Lercher is professor at the Institute of Bioinformatics in Dusseldorf, Germany. Lercher and Yanai are co-authors of the forthcoming book, The Society of Genes, from Harvard University Press. 2,400 words Edited by Pam Weintraub Humans are astounding creatures, our unique and highly complex traits encoded by our genome – a vast sequence of DNA ‘letters’ (called nucleotides) directing the building and maintenance of the body and brain. Yet science has served up the confounding paradox that the bulk of our genome appears to be dead wood, biologically inert... mais »
Languages origins
New Evidence Fuels Debate over the Origin of Modern Languages Nomadic horse riders likely opened a “steppe bridge” between Europe and Asia, but recent genetic data raise more questions - By Roni Jacobson | Scientific American March 2018 Issue [image: New Evidence Fuels Debate over the Origin of Modern Languages] The earliest Proto-Indo-European speakers were likely nomadic horse riders. *Credit: Chris Gash* Five thousand years ago nomadic horseback riders from the Ukrainian steppe charged through Europe and parts of Asia. They brought with them a language that is the root of man... mais »
Super-resolution microscopy
Super-resolution microscopy captures images in both space and time March 9, 2018 [image: Cell image using color-coded depth] High-speed “4D” views inside living cells Scientists at the Laboratory of Biomedical Optics (LOB) at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland have developed the first microscope platform that can perform “super-resolution” imaging in both space and time — capturing unprecedented “4D” views inside living cells. The landmark paper is published in Nature Photonics and on open-access ArXiv. Super-resolution microscopy is … more…
otherness
Bear and Wolf: A Tender Illustrated Fable of Walking Side by Side in Otherness Otherness has always been how we define ourselves — by contrast and distinction from what is unlike us, we find out what we are like: As I have previously written, we are what remains after everything we are not. But otherness can also be the most beautiful ground for connection — in slicing through the surface unlikenesses, we can discover a deep wellspring of kinship, which in turn enlarges our understanding of ourselves and the other. *“The world’s otherness is antidote to confusion,”* Mary Oliver wrote... mais »
Marie Curie
Marie Curie remains the only person to earn Nobel prizes in two different sciences. [image: Marie Curie]
US$ 2 trilhões/ano
*Recomendado pelo AMICOR Roni Quevedo* *Tabagismo custa US$ 2 trilhões por ano à economia mundial* Anna Monteiro : Mar 09 12:07PM -0300 Agência Efe, 8/3/18 http://brasil.efesalud.com/noticia/tabagismo-custa-us-2-trilhoes-por-ano-economia-mundial/ Tabagismo custa US$ 2 trilhões por ano à economia mundial Número de fumantes já ultrapassou a marca de 1 bilhão de pessoas O consumo de cigarro custa por ano US$ 2 trilhões à economia mundial, o que representa cerca de 2% do Produto Interno Bruto (PIB), conforme um relatório apresentado nesta quinta-feira na Confer... mais »
MEDICINE’S SUPPLY CHAIN
MEDICINE’S LONG, THIN SUPPLY CHAIN - IDEAS - 03.05.18 - 07:00 AM By offshoring its drug and medical supply manufacturing, the US has put patients and hospitals in a frighteningly precarious position. AUTHOR: MARYN MCKENNABY MARYN MCKENNA ON THE WEBSITE of the Food and Drug Administration, there’s a page where the agency lists drugs that are in short supply in the United States. Last week, there were 90 entries on the list: antibiotics, drugs for anesthesia, compounds to light up veins and organs for imaging, immunosuppressives to prevent organ rejection, tube-feeding solu... mais »
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