Health Politics
[image: Elsevier] Social Science & Medicine Volume 200, March 2018, Pages 92-98 [image: Social Science & Medicine] Review article Understanding the micro and macro politics of health: Inequalities, intersectionality & institutions - A research agenda Author links open overlay panelAnnaGkioulekaaTimHuijtsaJasonBeckfieldbClare Bambrac Show more https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.01.025Get rights and content Under a Creative Commons license open access - Highlights • Bridges intersectionality and institutional approaches to health inequalities. • Considers health inequalities b... mais »
Nietzsche on Truth and Lies,
Nietzsche on Truth, Lies, the Power and Peril of Metaphor, and How We Use Language to Reveal and Conceal Reality“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished…”BY MARIA POPOVA [image: Nietzsche on Truth, Lies, the Power and Peril of Metaphor, and How We Use Language to Reveal and Conceal Reality] *“The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning,”* Hannah Arendt wrote in her incisive medita... mais »
Indo-Aryans
A new study squelches a treasured theory about Indians’ origins The Aryans did not come from India; they conquered it Print edition | Asia Apr 5th 2018| DELHI A CENTURY and a half ago linguists invented a new map of the world. Their research showed that a single family tree stretches its branches almost unbroken across most of Eurasia: from Iceland to Bangladesh, most people speak languages descended from “Proto-Indo-European”. The philologists had a theory to explain why Sanskrit, the ancient forebear of Hindi, has closer cousins in Europe than in south India. They speculated that a... mais »
World Health Day
[image: Dia Mundial da Saúde - Email mkt] In support of World Health Day 2018 [image: Read now] Today, at least half of the world’s population are unable to obtain essential health care, often having to suffer financial hardship to gain access to the services they need. World Health Day is raising awareness of this issue with a focus on Universal Healthcare. This year, we are providing free access to research studies spanning twelve focus areas. We are thrilled to make available this special virtual issue, with leading work from within each area, to help shape the future of health... mais »
WHO's 70th anniversary
WHOse health agenda? 70 years of struggle over WHO's mandate Anne-Emanuelle BirnEmail the author Anne-Emanuelle Birn Published: 07 April 2018 PlumX Metrics DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30734-7 | [image: show]Article Info - Summary - Full Text - Tables and Figures - References Like any milestone, WHO's 70th anniversary offers an opportunity to reflect on its past trajectory and chart the challenges ahead. WHO's promising mandate for health cooperation, forged amid a short-lived post-war optimism, mapped out a world of possibilities. Yet its realisation has bee... mais »
Madona
*Raphael* Born this day in 1483 was Italian master painter and architect Raphael, whose work is admired for clarity of form and ease of composition and who is best known for his Madonnas and large figure compositions in the Vatican. [image: The Grand-Duke's Madonna, oil painting by Raphael, 1505.…] A propósito lembrei-me de um artigo meu onde cito Lee Salk que pesquisou a partir da observação das imagens das madonas que quase sempre carregam o filho aconchegado à E junto ao peito *Do ventre ao colo materno. Aloyzio Achutti* *https://amicore-book.blogspot.com.br/2016/06/do-ventre-ao-c... mais »
Antidepressants
Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs for the acute treatment of adults with major depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis Andrea Cipriani, MD[image: ']Correspondence information about the author MD Andrea CiprianiEmail the author MD Andrea Cipriani , Prof Toshi A Furukawa, MD† , Georgia Salanti, PhD† , Anna Chaimani, PhD , Lauren Z Atkinson, MSc , Yusuke Ogawa, MD , Prof Stefan Leucht, MD , Henricus G Ruhe, PhD , Erick H Turner, MD , Prof Julian P T Higgins, PhD , Prof Matthias Egger, PhD , Nozomi Takeshima, MD , Yu Haya... mais »
RNA Viruses
Viruses that infect amphibians, such as fire salamanders, reptiles and fishes, are little studied compared to the ones that affect mammals and birds. (Martin Gabriel/NPL) [image: European (Fire) salamander {Salamandra salamandra} Bavaria, Germany]Huge trove of viruses discovered in animals Researchers have discovered more than 200 previously unknown RNA viruses in fishes, amphibians and reptiles. The findings bolster our understanding of a category of virus that also affects people and includes influenza and haemorrhagic fever. Scientists also traced the viruses’ origins to reveal t... mais »
Solving Murder
[image: The Economist] This week’s cover looks at murder in poor countries. In 2016, 68% of all violent deaths were murders; war caused just 18%. High murder rates have local roots, including drug crime and the prevalence of young men, but everywhere rapid, chaotic urbanisation makes things worse. Latin America, with 8% of the world’s people but 38% of its murders, shows what curbs the killing and what fuels it. The good news is that, though many of the emerging world’s problems are intractable, murder need not be one of them Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief
Unconscious Reasons
A missed opportunity Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do by John Bargh (William Heinemann; Hb £20.00) Reviewed by Tom Stafford John Bargh is a charming and expert guide to research on the importance of our motivations, goals, habits, history and environment in affecting our everyday behaviours. His enthusiasm for the topic, and track record for conducting experiments with just that bit more flair than most, shine through this book.
Wiley Clinical Case
[image: Wiley] [image: Clinical Case Reports] Dear Dr. Achutti, *Clinical Case Reports* is celebrating five successful years of improving health and sharing knowledge! The new issue is out now - we invite you to read the editorial "*Clinical Case Reports* is celebrating!”, or read the full issue for free here. Since 2013, our mission has been to use clinical case reports to disseminate best clinical practice, to examine important common as well as uncommon clinical scenarios, and to illustrate and inform the use of important clinical guidelines and systematic reviews. Our aim is t... mais »
Thomas Hobbes
*1588:* [image: Thomas Hobbes, detail of an oil painting by John Michael Wright; in the National Portrait Gallery.…]English philosopher and political theorist Thomas Hobbes, best known for his publications on individual security and the social contract, was born.
Black woman as God
#1 PROVOCATEURS The Artist Daring to Paint God as a Black Woman Harmonia Rosales caused an uproar with her depiction of Michelangelo’s *The **Creation of Adam.* READBy Frank Tempone For two months last spring, Harmonia Rosales reimagined the creation story Michelangelo painted in the Sistine Chapel. If you followed the artist on social media, you saw her creation take shape, watched as her paintbrush told the story anew. Its figures — Jesus, Adam, God and a chorus of angels — were similar to the original, except for one striking detail: They were all Black women. And then the floodgat... mais »
“21st century health-poverty trap.”
The JAMA Forum April 3, 2018 Income, Poverty, and Health Inequality Dave A. Chokshi, MD, MSc1 Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA. 2018;319(13):1312-1313. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.2521 The health of people with low incomes historically has been a driver of public health advances in the United States. For example, in New York City, cholera deaths during outbreaks in 1832 and 1854 concentrated among the poor helped push forward the Metropolitan Health Law, which allowed for regulation of sanitary conditions in the city. The law was an exemplar for other municipalities across the Un... mais »
8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanosine
Simple Urine Test Could Measure How Much Our Body Has Agedby Neuroscience News Researchers have developed a new urine test that could potentially measure how much our bodies have aged. The test measures a substance that indicates oxidative damage, which increases in urine as we age. Read more of this post *Neuroscience News* | April 4, 2018 at 9:01 am | Tags: 8-oxodGsn, 8-oxoGsn, Frontiers, oxygen, urine test | URL: https://wp.me/p4sXNK-coW Comment See all comments
Alzheimer’s Disease in Physicians
Alzheimer’s Disease in Physicians — Assessing Professional Competence and Tempering Stigma - Gayatri Devi, M.D. - - Dr. Redd, a 76-year-old practicing physician, sought help for memory loss at an Alzheimer’s disease research center. After being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she became distressed when she was instructed to stop working immediately. Abrupt retirement would leave patients in her highly subspecialized practice without care. She obtained a second opinion through the New York state Committee for Physician Health, a... mais »
PET Imaging
Novel PET Imaging Agent Could Help Guide Therapy for Brain Diseasesby Neuroscience News Researchers have developed a new imaging agent, which uses PET scans to target receptors neurons implicated in memory and learning. Read more of this post *Neuroscience News* | April 2, 2018 at 12:17 pm | Tags: 11C-Me-NB1, GluM2B, NTD, Sigma1R, SNMMI | URL: https://wp.me/p4sXNK-_cN8 Comment See all comments
Liberty x Equity
*Rcomendado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja*Offline: Liberty *vs* equity in global health Richard HortonEmail the author Richard Horton Published: 24 March 2018 s equity the defining objective of global health in the 21st century? Equity is hardwired into every definition of global health. It would be insane to argue otherwise. But global health is too important to allow this assumption to go unchallenged. Global health is about who we are, who we want to be, and how we want to live together on this wounded world of ours. Global health is about everything we hold dear in life.... mais »
Eparquia Maronita
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Colon Cancer: Resting Heart Rate
Resting Heart Rate Predicts Colon Cancer RecurrenceHighest rates 5 years after curative treatment 'meaningful' independent risk factor - by Diana Swift, Contributing WriterMarch 30, 2018 Elevated resting heart rate was independently associated with a higher rate of advanced adenoma recurrence in a Korean study of colorectal cancer survivors. While high heart rate is a known predictor of cancer incidence and also of all-cause mortality in cancer patients, Justin Y. Jeon, PhD, and colleagues from Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul undertook a long-term surveillance st... mais »
Atherosclerosis: H Pylori
*H. Pylori* Linked to Atherosclerosis in Healthy PeopleInfected individuals with no history of coronary heart disease had significant subclinical atherosclerosis - SAVESAVED - - - - - - by Diana Swift, Contributing WriterMarch 31, 2018 Current infection with *Helicobacter pylori (H. Pylori*) was associated with significant subclinical coronary artery stenosis in a population with no prior arterial disease, suggesting a need for earlier diagnosis and treatment of this pathogen to forestall progression to overt disease, researchers reported.
Story of our species
*Into ASIA* Christopher BAE is professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. 2,900 words Edited by Sam Dresser from AEON https://youtu.be/7oMY7QtFst4 Modern humans arose only once, in Africa, about 200,000 years ago. They then spread across Eurasia some time after 60,000 years ago, replacing whatever indigenous populations they met with no interbreeding. This is the ‘Out of Africa’ model, as it’s commonly known. In the 1990s, the hypothesis found widespread acceptance by palaeoanthropologists, especially when the first analyses of Neanderthal DNA seemed to indicat... mais »
Mary Magdalene
The Real Reason Why Mary Magdalene Is Such a Controversial Figure
Pope Easter Message
Pope Francis Calls for Peace in Easter MessageHe called for a "swift end" to the seven years of carnage in Syria and urged reconciliation in Israel
William Harvey
William Harvey [image: William Harvey.] ENGLISH PHYSICIAN WRITTEN BY: - Andrew Gregory LAST UPDATED: 3-25-2018 See Article History from E.B. William Harvey, (born April 1, 1578, Folkestone, Kent, Eng.—died June 3, 1657, London), English physician who was the first to recognize the full circulation of the blood in the human body and to provide experiments and arguments to support this idea. Education And Appointment As Lumleian Lecturer Harvey had seven brothers and two sisters, and his father, Thomas Harvey, was a farmer and landowner. Harvey attended the King’s School in Canterb... mais »
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