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EDGE.org: THE WORLD'S SMARTEST WEBSITE

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - 2 minutos atrás

JOHN BROCKMAN: THE MAN WHO RUNS THE WORLD'S SMARTEST WEBSITE Johan Naughton in *The Guardian:* [image: John-brockman-007]In cyberspace, Brockman is best known for Edge.org, a site he founded as a continuation of what he describes as "a failed art experiment" by his late friend, performance artist James Lee Byars. Byars believed, Brockman recalls, "that to arrive at a satisfactory plateau of knowledge it was pure folly to go to Widener Library at Harvard and read six million books. Instead, he planned to gather the 100 most brilliant minds in the world in a room, lock them in and have... mais »

Novo consultório

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - 5 minutos atrás

Neste ano, a partir de março, esperamos poder ofercer nosso novo consultorio, na sala 1005 do Edifício Prime Offices no Shopping Praia de Belas, na Avenida Borges de Medeiros a uma quadra de nossa casa. É linda a vista do Guaiba. Estão todos convidados para vê-la, especialmente o por do sol.

Mental Health

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - 2 dias atrás

7 Reasons America's Mental Health Industry Is a Threat to Our Sanity Drug industry corruption, scientifically unreliable diagnoses and pseudoscientific research have compromised the values of the psychiatric profession.*January 6, 2012* | AlterNet / *By* *Bruce E. Levine* Why do some of us become dissident mental health professionals? The majority of psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals “go along to get along” and maintain a status quo that includes drug company corruption, pseudoscientific research and a “standard of care” that is routinely damaging a... mais »

Photosynthesis

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - 2 dias atrás

Lessons to be learned from nature in photosynthesis posted on: september 23, 2011 - 4:30pm [image: Lessons to be learned from nature in photosynthesis] Photosynthesis is one of nature's finest miracles. Through the photosynthetic process, green plants absorb sunlight in their leaves and convert the photonic energy into chemical energy that is stored as sugars in the plants' biomass. If we can learn from nature and develop an artificial version of photosynthesis we would have an energy source that is absolutely clean and virtually inexhaustible. "Solar energy is forecasted to provide a... mais »

Alzheimer & MRI

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - 3 dias atrás

Cortical Thickness an Early Marker of Alzheimer’s Fran Lowry January 4, 2012 — Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure areas of the brain that are involved in Alzheimer’s disease may be a way of detecting the disease at its earliest preclinical stages, a new study suggests. Cognitively normal adults for whom regions of the brain’s cortex were found to be smaller than those of their peers when examined with MRI were significantly more likely to develop symptoms of cognitive decline after 3 years, Bradford C. Dickerson, MD, from Harvard Medical School, Boston, and David A.... mais »

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Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - 3 dias atrás

NEJM 200TH ANNIVERSARY[image: NEJM 200th] In 2012, the *New England Journal of Medicine*celebrates 200 years of publishing advances in medical research and clinical practice. Throughout the year we will publish a series of anniversary articles that document the progress of medicine over the past 200 years. Visit the NEJM 200th Anniversary website, http://nejm200.nejm.org, to learn about the features and events we have planned. A Reader's Guide to 200 Years of the *New England Journal of Medicine* Allan M. Brandt, Ph.D. N Engl J Med 2012; 366:1-7January 5, 2012 Comments open through D... mais »

Paz

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - 4 dias atrás

04 de janeiro de 2012 | N° 16936 ARTIGOS ZHPaz, por Aloyzio Achutti* Dentre as mensagens de fim de ano recebidas, uma em especial me fez pensar, e merece ser compartilhada. Foi da jornalista Barbara Frazer, da revista inglesa The Lancet, que me procurara para escrever o obituário de nosso saudoso Scliar. A mensagem não é nova, diz “Busca a paz e vai ao seu encalço” (Salmo 34, 14). Parece que nada tem a ver com o mundo de hoje, e certamente também não com o da época em que o salmista a escreveu. O noticiário e os outros conteúdos da mídia estão repletos de violência, guerr... mais »

Alzheimer

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - 5 dias atrás

Changes in cerebrospinal fluid may signal early Alzheimer's By Alan Mozes, HealthDay Updated 9h 57m ago *Searching for a better screen for early Alzheimer's disease, researchers think they have found a marker of change in the brain that precedes the onset of the disease by five to 10 years* years. - [image: Searching for a better screen for early Alzheimer's disease, researchers think they have found a marker of change in the brain that precedes the onset of the disease by five to 10 years.] Photo Disc Searching for a better screen for early Alzheimer's disease, resear... mais »

Cariovascular Health in Adults: USA

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - 5 dias atrás

- - Epidemiology and Prevention Status of Cardiovascular Health in US AdultsPrevalence Estimates From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) 2003–2008* Christina M. Shay, PhD, MA; Hongyan Ning, MD, MS; Norrina B. Allen, PhD, MPH; Mercedes R. Carnethon, PhD; Stephanie E. Chiuve, ScD; Kurt J. Greenlund, PhD*; Martha L. Daviglus, MD, PhD; Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM* 1. Next Section Abstract *Background—*The American Heart Association's 2020 Strategic Impact Goals define a new concept, cardiovascular (CV) health; however, current preva... mais »

Tobacco Industry strugle...

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - 5 dias atrás

*General Messages* by Dr. Nathaniel Wander**Go to other forums ** | **Rate this article ** | **Reply to author ** | **Reply to all **Altria recently launched a new website titled 'Citizens for Tobacco Rights'. On the face of it, it appears to be a tool mobilize 'adult smokers and dippers [to join] together to learn more about and take action on issues they care about' particular with regard to state legislators. A look at its privacy policies, however, suggests it to be a marketing tool as well. http://www.tobaccorights.com/ctr/advocacy/default.aspx Nathaniel Wander Corozal, Bel... mais »

The assault on universalism: how to destroy the welfare state

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - 6 dias atrás

*Indicado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja*Christmas 2011: Food for Thought BMJ 2011; 343 doi: 10.1136/bmj.d7973 (Published 20 December 2011) Cite this as: BMJ 2011;343:d7973 Martin McKee, professor of European public health1, David Stuckler, university lecturer2 * * *Martin McKee* and *David Stuckler* watch aghast as American examples are followed to destroy the European model of the welfare state Christmas is a time to count our blessings, reflecting how they came to be. For people living in England this reflection is more relevant than ever, as the coalition gover... mais »

Time for Outrage

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - 6 dias atrás

*Stephane Hessel and the Handbook of the Revolution* By BRUCE CRUMLEY / PARIS Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 Stephane Hessel's *Time for Outrage* has sold around 4 million copies in 30 languages since its October 2010 release Remy Gabadar / AFP / Getty Images - At 94 years of age, Stephane Hessel has already seen and done more than most people can even imagine. He witnessed the rise of fascism in Europe, fought the Nazis in the French Resistance; was interned in German death camps, designated for hanging, escaped and participated in the liberation of Paris; and worked as a d... mais »

A Year in Photographs: 2011

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - 1 semana atrás

[image: Feliz Ano Novo!] LightBox 365: A Year in Photographs LightBox has compiled this yearbook for 2011, literally picking a photo for each day of this astonishing year. It is a remarkable memorial to its high and low points, to agony and to exhilaration. But let the pictures speak for themselves

Alzheimer

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - 1 semana atrás

O encolhimento do cérebro na doença de *Alzheimer pode ser revertido* em alguns casos com a utilização de estímulos elétricos no cérebro, e a reversão do encolhimento reduz o declínio cognitivo associado à doença. Para levar a cabo essa reversão, o Dr. Andres Lozano, do Toronto Western Hospital em Ontário, Canadá, e sua equipe estão utilizando a técnica da estimulação cerebral profunda (do inglês, *deep brain stimulation*), que consiste em enviar impulsos elétricos (130 microdescargas por segundo) ao cérebro por eletrodos implantados internamente. Segundo o Dr. Lozano, a área mais af... mais »

Ciência Hoje: Retrospectiva 2011

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - 1 semana atrás

Retrospectiva 2011 Publicado em 26/12/2011 Permalink Tags: Retrospectiva 2011 A CH On-line fez uma seleção de acontecimentos relevantes deste ano em cinco áreas: química, física, saúde, meio ambiente e ciências humanas. Confira nesta semana! [image: Retrospectiva 2011] 2011 foi o ano da química, dos neutrinos supervelozes, das doenças crônicas, de avanços em estudos sobre a Aids, dos desastres naturais, das mudanças climáticas, das revoltas no mundo árabe... (montagem a partir de foto de Alex Slobodkin/ iStockphoto)

OCD in Adulthood & Childhood

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - 1 semana atrás

OCD in Adulthood Traced to Cues in Childhood By Kurt Ullman, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today Published: December 30, 2011 Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Rituals and sensory hypersensitivities in a child may be early warning signs of adult obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to the results of two studies from Israel. A strong reaction to everyday events as recorded on a sensory profile was highly correlated with ritualism on the Childhood Routine Inventory (CRI) in one study (*r*=0.68, *P*<0.001), report... mais »

EDGE.org: THE WORLD'S SMARTEST WEBSITE

JOHN BROCKMAN: THE MAN WHO RUNS THE WORLD'S SMARTEST WEBSITE

Johan Naughton in The Guardian:

In cyberspace, Brockman is best known for Edge.org, a site he founded as a continuation of what he describes as "a failed art experiment" by his late friend, performance artist James Lee Byars. Byars believed, Brockman recalls, "that to arrive at a satisfactory plateau of knowledge it was pure folly to go to Widener Library at Harvard and read six million books. Instead, he planned to gather the 100 most brilliant minds in the world in a room, lock them in and have them ask one another the questions they'd been asking themselves. The expected result – in theory – was to be a synthesis of all thought." But it didn't work out that way. Byars did identify his 100 most brilliant minds and phoned each of them. The result: 70 hung up on him!/.../

Novo consultório

Neste ano, a partir de março, esperamos poder ofercer nosso novo consultorio, na sala 1005 do Edifício Prime Offices no Shopping Praia de Belas, na Avenida Borges de Medeiros a uma quadra de nossa casa.
É linda a vista do Guaiba. Estão todos convidados para vê-la, especialmente o por do sol.

Mental Health

7 Reasons America's Mental Health Industry Is a Threat to Our Sanity

Drug industry corruption, scientifically unreliable diagnoses and pseudoscientific research have compromised the values of the psychiatric profession.January 6, 2012  |  AlterNet / By Bruce E. Levine

Why do some of us become dissident mental health professionals?

The majority of psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals “go along to get along” and maintain a status quo that includes drug company corruption, pseudoscientific research and a “standard of care” that is routinely damaging and occasionally kills young children. If that sounds hyperbolic, then you probably have not heard of Rebecca Riley, and how the highest levels of psychiatry described her treatment as “appropriate and within responsible professional standards.”

Photosynthesis

Lessons to be learned from nature in photosynthesis

posted on: september 23, 2011 - 4:30pm

Photosynthesis is one of nature's finest miracles. Through the photosynthetic process, green plants absorb sunlight in their leaves and convert the photonic energy into chemical energy that is stored as sugars in the plants' biomass. If we can learn from nature and develop an artificial version of photosynthesis we would have an energy source that is absolutely clean and virtually inexhaustible.

"Solar energy is forecasted to provide a significant fraction of the world's energy needs over the next century, as sunlight is the most abundant source of energy we have at our disposal," says Graham Fleming, Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California (UC) Berkeley who holds a joint appointment with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). "However, to utilize solar energy harvested from sun¬light efficiently we must understand and improve both the effective cap¬ture of photons and the transfer of electronic excitation energy."/.../

Alzheimer & MRI

Cortical Thickness an Early Marker of Alzheimer’s

Fran Lowry

 January 4, 2012 — Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure areas of the brain that are involved in Alzheimer’s disease may be a way of detecting the disease at its earliest preclinical stages, a new study suggests.

Cognitively normal adults for whom regions of the brain’s cortex were found to be smaller than those of their peers when examined with MRI were significantly more likely to develop symptoms of cognitive decline after 3 years, Bradford C. Dickerson, MD, from Harvard Medical School, Boston, and David A. Wolk, MD, from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, report.

"MRI cortical thickness, as a biomarker, is capable of detecting preclinical Alzheimer’s disease," Dr. Dickerson told Medscape Medical News. "These areas of the brain appear to be atrophic; they are smaller than they should be, and probably have shrunk in these individuals."/.../

NEJM 200TH ANNIVERSARY

In 2012, the New England Journal of Medicinecelebrates 200 years of publishing advances in medical research and clinical practice. Throughout the year we will publish a series of anniversary articles that document the progress of medicine over the past 200 years. Visit the NEJM 200th Anniversary website, http://nejm200.nejm.org, to learn about the features and events we have planned. A Reader's Guide to 200 Years of the New England Journal of Medicine Allan M. Brandt, Ph.D. N Engl J Med 2012; 366:1-7January 5, 2012  Comments open through December 31, 2012 Article References Comments Audio Interview Interview with Allan Brandt on the first 200 years of theJournal as a window into the history of medicine, science, and society. (22:26) Listen Download With this issue, the New England Journal of Medicine marks its 200th anniversary. In January 1812, as the first issue came off the handset letterpress, few of its founders could have predicted such continuity and success. (See Figure 1FIGURE 1Illustration from “Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart and Lungs,” by John C. Warren, April 1, 1812, Issue of the Journal., from an 1812 issue.) John Collins Warren, the renowned Boston surgeon, his colleague James Jackson, a founder of Massachusetts General Hospital, and the small group of distinguished colleagues who joined them in starting the New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, and the Collateral Branches of Science expressed modest and largely local aspirations for the enterprise. Boston, a growing urban center, and the wider New England environs had no medical journal of their own, although much medical knowledge and practice was considered region-specific. Although the name and format of the Journal would vary until 1928, 7 years after its ownership passed to the Massachusetts Medical Society, it remains the longest continuously published medical periodical in the world. The prospectus for the Journal, a call for papers issued in late 1811, explained the goals of Warren and his collaborators: “The editors have been encouraged to attempt this publication by the opinion, that a taste for medical literature has greatly increased in New England within a few years past. New methods of practice, good old ones which are not sufficiently known, and occasional investigations of the modes in common use, when thus distributed among our medical brethren in the country, will promote a disposition for inquiry and reflection, which cannot fail to produce the most happy results.”1

Paz

04 de janeiro de 2012 | N° 16936  

ARTIGOS ZH

Paz, por Aloyzio Achutti*

Dentre as mensagens de fim de ano recebidas, uma em especial me fez pensar, e merece ser compartilhada. Foi da jornalista Barbara Frazer, da revista inglesa The Lancet, que me procurara para escrever o obituário de nosso saudoso Scliar. A mensagem não é nova, diz “Busca a paz e vai ao seu encalço” (Salmo 34, 14). Parece que nada tem a ver com o mundo de hoje, e certamente também não com o da época em que o salmista a escreveu.

O noticiário e os outros conteúdos da mídia estão repletos de violência, guerra e desastres naturais ou provocados. Em parte estão refletindo uma seleção baseada em mecanismos de defesa contra os riscos do quotidiano, mas nem de longe se vislumbra um ambiente de paz.

Há muitas tentativas para explicar a violência, a guerra e o mal no mundo. Seriam simplesmente fenômenos naturais? Inerentes à natureza humana? Explicações religiosas, biológicas, antropológicas. Pecado original, preservação da espécie, defesa do território...

As explicações não resolvem o problema, mas ao menos nos ajudam a melhor compreendê-lo, tolerá-lo e buscar melhor controle, mesmo sem esperança de solução definitiva. Por natureza, a vida e tudo no cosmo estão em equilíbrio instável que depende de permanente adaptação. Nós, pessoas humanas, somos interdependentes e dependentes do ambiente em que vivemos, e a qualidade de nossas vidas depende também da busca desse equilíbrio.

A mensagem aponta-nos uma direção, mas não nos fala de uma chegada, pelo contrário, apenas nos estimula a prosseguir num caminho, sem desistir do projeto. Trata-se, então, de buscar uma ilusão?

Tentando melhor entender o sentido, me dei conta de que no domínio da ciência também é assim. Caminhamos em busca da verdade, mas nunca chegaremos lá. Às vezes, entramos em caminhos falsos, e, mesmo quando estamos na direção certa, cada conquista só nos faz aumentar ainda mais o horizonte da pesquisa e do questionamento...

No domínio biológico, na medicina e na saúde, também temos que conviver com incertezas, imperfeições, doenças, violências e sofrimento. No entanto, é preciso viver, aproveitar a vida e tudo de bom que ela nos oferece enquanto dure, contando com nossa capacidade de busca da adaptação e do equilíbrio.

Embora a vida de cada um sempre termine em fatalidade, para entendê-la é preciso sair da escala individual e contemplá-la globalmente (no tempo e no espaço). Temos que fazer nossa parte do projeto humano, sem ilusão de lá chegar. A vida é a jornada na qual vamos ao encalço da saúde, da verdade, do bem, e da paz.

Saúde e paz não são fins em si mesmos. São meios para nos aproximarmos de uma vida mais feliz, e o ano novo não será ainda um ano de paz, mas é preciso andar em seu encalço...

*MÉDICO
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She is a freelance journalist based in Lima, Peru. With 20 years of experience in Latin America, she puts a human face on current events and public policy. She offers research, writing, editing and photography services, with particular expertise in Latin American, environmental, public health and social issues. Member, Society of Environmental Journalists and National Association of Science Writers.