UFRGS-Jubilados 60, 50 e 25 anos
*Associação dos Antigos Alunos da UFRGS celebrou ontem* No meio dos "bichos" da Medicina de 25 anos 60 anos Aloyzio Achutti Saudações iniciais… Sinto-me privilegiado por poder estar ainda aqui celebrando, com meus colegas da turma médica de 1958 a conclusão de nosso curso, e ao mesmo tempo honrado com convite para falar em nome dos colegas das outras onze unidades existentes na época em nossa Universidade. Nossa Faculdade de Medicina foi a segunda a ser criada (em 1898) portanto completando agora 120 anos, exatamente o dobro de nossos sessenta de hoje. Esse número, convencionou-se r... mais »
Porto Alegre: Atlas Ambiental
- Home - O Atlas - Educação - Digital - Ciência - Como ler - Expediente - - *Capítulo 01 - O Atlas* Conhecer para Cuidar Depois de inspirar a elaboração de obras similares em mais de 60 cidades no Brasil e no mundo, o Atlas Ambiental de Porto Alegre, lançado pela primeira vez em 1998, completa duas décadas de existência. Em 2018, o livro ganha uma versão digital na internet. Hospedada no Centro de Documentação e Acervo Digital da Pesquisa da UFRGS, a obra ficou mais acessível para quem quiser conhecer o ambiente natural da cidade... mais »
Hugging
*Consensual Hugs Seem to Reduce Stress* People who had a conflict in a given day but also got hugged were not as affected by the negative interaction as were their unhugged counterparts. When a friend comes to you after a stressful day, how do you comfort them? Do you let them rant? Do you pour them a glass of wine? Those could work. But a new study finds that a very effective technique is also simple and easy. “Hugging.” Michael Murphy is a psychology postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He wanted to know if people who received hugs regularly could handle stress an... mais »
Personalized Medicine
(Illustration by David Parkins) Statistical pitfalls of personalized medicine “Causality is hard to study and difficult to prove,” says statistician Stephen Senn — and our failure to understand it is contributing to false hopes about the potential of personalized medicine. Senn calls out lazy language, arbitrary dichotomies, inappropriate yardsticks and ever-changing human physiology as some of the issues that stymie drugs in clinical trials. Nature | 10 min read
Human Genoma Editing
How the genome-edited-babies revelation will affect research Conversation at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong is focused on one thing: a shock announcement earlier this week by genomics researcher He Jiankui, claiming that he used CRISPR gene editing on human embryos resulting in the birth of healthy twin babies. The claim has prompted an outcry from scientists, who are concerned that He leap-frogged international ethics discussions and put the children at risk of unknown health effects. Even He’s own university distanced itself from the results. ... mais »
greenhouse gas
Nations must triple efforts to curb greenhouse gas [image: China, the United States, Europe and India have contributed most greenhouse-gas emissions over the past decade] Governments of the world need to triple their current efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in order to keep global warming under the crucial limit of 2 °C by 2030. The United Nations’ annual emissions-gap report projects that emissions will rise by 10% between 2017 and 2030 — they need to drop by 25% instead. The report also points out ways to close the gap, and says that scaling up and replicating existing po... mais »
La sécurité des Dispositifs médicaux
Dispositifs médicaux: la sécurité devra être renforcée en Suisse Une enquête réalisée par le Consortium international de journalistes d’investigation a dernièrement mis en lumière les carences concernant le contrôle des implants, prothèses et autres dispositifs médicaux, qui auraient causé la mort de milliers de personnes dans le monde. Le point sur la situation en Suisse Pompes à insuline, prothèses de hanche, de genou, stents, pacemakers… Le marché des dispositifs médicaux – tous les produits ne rentrant pas dans la catégorie des médicaments – est en pleine expansion. En S... mais »
Claude Lévi-Strauss
[image: Claude Lévi-Strauss.] 1908: French social anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, a leading exponent of structuralism, was born in Belgium.
BR 456 mil médicos ativos
*Do Conselho Federal de Medicina* [image: IMG-20181127-WA0002]
Nobel Prizes
*Today, November 27* [image: Nobel Prize: medal] FEATURED EVENT 1895 Nobel Prizes established Through the will drawn up by Alfred Bernhard Nobel—the Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist who invented dynamite and other, more powerful explosives—the Nobel Prizes were established on this day in 1895.
AD and DNA Recombination
Never Before Seen DNA Recombination in Brain Linked to Alzheimer’sby Neuroscience News Researchers identified gene recombination in neurons that produces new gene variants in the brains of those with Alzheimer's disease. The findings, researchers say, may point to a potential near term treatment for the neurodegenerative disease. Read more of this post
A/H1N1 - 3D
*A/H1N1 - 3D* O mais preciso e completo modelo 3D de um vírus
Tele-Empathy
Greetings and welcome to the weekly Exponential Medicine newsletter where we share a curated set of news stories relevant to the cutting edge and future of health and medicine and talks from prior Exponential Medicine (xMed) programs. *Tele-Empathy: How do you make someone else feel another's pain and discomfort? *When physicians become patients they often develop new forms of empathy that can improve their capabilities as caregivers. In this terrific talk from xMed 2017, Yan Fossat & Alec Melkonian from Klick Labs share the importance and data behind empathy, and novel approaches... mais »
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