World Health Statistics 2014
World Health Statistics 2014 World Health Statistics 2014 contains WHO’s annual compilation of health-related data for its 194 Member States, and includes a summary of the progress made towards achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and associated targets. This year, it also includes highlight summaries on the ongoing commitment to end preventable maternal deaths; on the need to act now to combat rising levels of childhood obesity; on recent trends in both life expectancy and premature deaths; and on the crucial role of civil registration and vital statistic... mais »
Photonics
Capturing the motion of a single molecule in real time as it oscillates from one quantum state to another September 18, 2014 [image: (Credit: Nature Photonics)] UC Irvine chemists have scored a scientific first: capturing moving images of a single molecule as it vibrates and shifts from one quantum state to another. The groundbreaking achievement, led by Ara Apkarian, professor of chemistry, and Eric Potma, associate professor of chemistry, could lead to new insights in developing quantum computers. It also moves … more…
How we die
How We Die: Sherwin Nuland on the Lifelong Art of Making Our Final Moments Meaningful *"To lament that we shall not be alive a hundred years hence, is the same folly as to be sorry we were not alive a hundred years ago,"*Montaigne wrote in his timeless meditation on death and the art of living. And yet in the half millennium since his day, we've made paltry progress on coming to such nonchalant terms with the reality of death. We are still profoundly unprepared when it strikes our loved ones andparalyzed by the prospect of our own demise. Our discomfort with "the idea of a permanent... mais »
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Cirurgia do Coração
*Aos doutores Paulo R. Prates e Ivo Nesralla, parabéns pelo lançamento do livro e seu sucesso.* *Tive a ventura de estar no palco dos acontecimentos desde antes de seu início em Porto Alegre, quando selecionávamos pacientes para enviar a São Paulo para serem operados pelo Dr. Hugo Felipozzi. Depois com Professores Renan Marsiaij de Oliveira e Professor Hilário e por fim Dr. Cid Nogueira, aqui mesmo. * *Tive também a chance de ver os autores entrarem em cena e acompanha-los durante algum tempo, em suas realizações e brilhante desempenho.* *Na minha impossibilidade de comparecer ao lanç... mais »
Maria Ribeiro da Silva Tavares * 27/11/1911
*Maria Ribeiro da Silva Tavares* Coloquei um link no título para um artigo que saiu sobre esta mulher excepcional no jornal Folha de São Paulo, nossa filha Ana Lúcia Robinson Achutti psiquiatra é que me alertou para a matéria. Tenho registro de atendimento dela desde 25 de maio de 1974, portanto há quarenta anos. Desde antes (provavelmente na década de 60) Dra. Valderês Robinson Achutti, minha esposa, e eu atendemos seu pai, sua mãe e irmãs. Ela é uma das minhas joias centenárias que me restam. A outra tem cento e nove anos. A história dela já foi objeto de diversas matérias na mídia... mais »
Mário R. Garcia Palmieri 01/08/1927 - 16/09/2014
Dr. Mário Maranhão me enviou a notícia que comparto com os amigos *Garcia Palmieri* [image: Photo: La SIAC lamenta la pérdida del Dr Marío R. García Palmieri. Expresidente SIAC durante dos mandatos. Distinguido cardiologo en Puerto Rico y América.] Parte do nome do falecido era semelhante ao nosso mestre da cardiologia, Professor Rubens Mário Garcia Maciel. Tive oportunidade de acompanhá-lo nas décadas de 70, 80 e 90 principalmente através da ISFC, depois World Heart Federation
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
[image: Video] VIDEO: Seeing the Invisible This animated documentary celebrates the 17th-century citizen scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, whose discovery of microbes would change our view of the biological world. [image: .] Related Article
Preventing Overdiagnosis
2014 Preventing Overdiagnosis conference – November 13, 2012 by admin The 2014 Preventing Overdiagnosis conference will be hosted by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford UK, September 15-17, 2014. Abstract submission and early bird registration are now open, with limited places available. Sign up below to receive updates about the conference. Over 320 scientists, clinicians, policy makers and consumer advocates attended the 2013 Preventing Overdiagnosis conference, hosted by The Dartmouth Institute for Health ... mais »
FLU and CHD
*Comentário enviado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja para a Revista Science a propósito de sua contribuição original.* *Ela comenta que o título remete à teoria que ela publicou em 2009 - de que a reciclagem dos virus influenza em co-evolução com a população humana resulta em variação temporal na distribuição de fenotipos imunoinflamatórios na população, o que explica a variação temporal nos niveis e principais causas de mortalidade e a ocorrência de epidemias por diferentes doenças. Afirma que seu trabalho é consultado com bastante regularidade conforme estatísticas do Resea... mais »
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
*1849:*[image: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov.]Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, known chiefly for his development of the concept of the conditioned reflex, was born this day
Everyone wants to know the details of dying, though few are willing to say so. Whether to anticipate the events of our own final illness or better to comprehend what is happening to a mortally stricken loved one… we are lured by thoughts of life’s ending… To most people, death remains a hidden secret, as eroticized at it is feared. We are irresistibly attracted by the very anxieties we find most terrifying; we are drawn to them by a primitive excitement that arises from flirtation with danger. Moths and flames, mankind and death – there is little difference.
