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Mental Ills
Top Reason U.S. Troops Now Hospitalized By MARK THOMPSON | @MarkThompson_DC | May 16, 2012 | [image: Chris Hondros / Getty Images] CHRIS HONDROS / GETTY IMAGES Four of the top five non-combat medical conditions sending troops to the hospital in 2011 were mental ailments, the Pentagon reports: “Substance abuse, mood, anxiety, and adjustment disorders accounted for 622 person-years of lost duty due to hospitalization, convalescence, and limited duty dispositions,” the summary of military hospitalizations concluded. “Mental disorders accounted for more hospital bed days than any other... mais »
Chimarrão
*Referência enviado por nossa filha Lucia Helena*Otro beneficio de la yerba mate: descubren que evita la pérdida de glóbulos rojosEs por su contenido de antioxidantes. Aquí se consumen 6,2 kilos de yerba por habitante Tomar mate *hace bien*. El viejo axioma que por experiencia propia todos los argentinos conocemos de memoria ahora tiene *un nuevo fundamento científico* . No sólo es una gran excusa para compartir una charla con amigos, un compañero fiel de los bizcochitos salados o de la pizza recién salida de la heladera o un eficiente laxante casero. *El mate tiene mucho más para of... mais »
Nuns & male hierarchy
OPINION OP-ED CONTRIBUTORNuns on the FrontierBy ANNE M. BUTLER The tension between nuns and the Catholic Church's male hierarchy has roots in the 19th century. THE recent Vatican edict that reproached American nuns for their liberal views on social and political issues has put a spotlight on the practices of these Roman Catholic sisters. While the current debate has focused on the nuns’ progressive stances on birth control, abortion, homosexuality, the all-male priesthood and economic injustice, tension between American nuns and the church’s male hierarchy reaches much further back./... mais »
MICRONUTRIENTS
JAMA: Effects of Prenatal Micronutrient and Early Food Supplementation on Maternal Hemoglobin, Birth Weight, and Infant Mortality Among Children in Bangladesh *From* *: Jorge Ossanai* inglês português Traduzir mensagem Desativar para: inglês Effects of Prenatal Micronutrient and Early Food Supplementation on Maternal Hemoglobin, Birth Weight, and Infant Mortality Among Children in Bangladesh: The MINIMat Randomized TrialPrenatal Micronutrient and Early Food Supplementation http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1157489
NCD
Viewpoint | May 16, 2012 *Reference also from Jorge Ossanai* Noncommunicable DiseasesA Global Health Crisis in a New World Order Shannon L. Marrero, BA; David E. Bloom, PhD; Eli Y. Adashi, MD, MS [+] Author Affiliations *JAMA*. 2012;307(19):2037-2038. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.3546 Text Size: A A A Article References In September 2011, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) held—for the first time—a High-Level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases.1 In taking this unusual step, the UNGA, home to 193 member states and the principal decision-making organ of th... mais »
Alzheimer: landmark prevention trial
*Reference thanks to the AMICOR Jorge Ossanai* *Genentech to test Alzheimer's drug in landmark prevention trial* SAN FRANCISCO, May 15 (Xinhua) -- U.S. biotechnology company Genentech announced on Tuesday that it has been picked for a first- ever Alzheimer's disease prevention trial which may determine whether one of the company's experimental drugs could delay or prevent people with a genetic history to get the dementia. According to the South San Francisco-headquartered company, the study will involve about 300 cognitively healthy people from local families in Medellin, Colombia. A... mais »
Health Statistics
Analysis: Health by numbers: A statistician's challenge Monday, May 14, 2012 By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - The next time a headline tells of a sharp fall in measles deaths around the world, or an increase in those on treatment for HIV, or the shifting of the burden of cancer, spare a thought for the number-crunchers behind such far-reaching data. Above all else, analyzing the state of the world's health - be it by looking at obesity rates, cancer cases, malaria deaths, or HIV-free births - requires decent statistics. Billions of dollars are allocated and whole policy shifts made... mais »
Chemical changes in hippocampus are early diagnostic clues for Alzheimer diseaseMay 10, 2012 [image: brain_disorders_and_alterations_of_ph] Various brain disorders and associated alterations of pH in different brain regions. The pH is increased in epilepsy (region: temporal lobes), in panic disorder (region: frontal lobes), and in Alzheimer’s disease (region: hippocampus area) and decreased in bipolar disorder (region: frontal lobes). There is no change in pH in Parkinson’s disease patients (during visual-stimulation), white matter damage, schizophrenia, sleep deprivation, or hypoxi... mais »
Memory
Team Identifies Neurotransmitters that Lead to Forgetting *By Eric Sauter* While we often think of memory as a way of preserving the essential idea of who we are, little thought is given to the importance of forgetting to our wellbeing, whether what we forget belongs in the “horrible memories department” or just reflects the minutia of day-to-day living. Despite the fact that forgetting is normal, exactly how we forget—the molecular, cellular, and brain circuit mechanisms underlying the process—is poorly understood./.../
Healthcare costs
[image: Healthcare Is Killing Us] Healthcare Is Killing Us #GMJ High healthcare costs are dooming job creation, badly needed hope, and employee engagement, says Gallup's chairman A GMJ Q&A with Jim Clifton, CEO of Gallup and author of The Coming obs War Americans have been concerned about the rising cost of healthcare for some time, but the situation may be even more dangerous than we think. As Gallup Chairman Jim Clifton writes in *The Coming Jobs War*: "It is impossible for the U.S. to win the race for new good jobs while the country continues its failed strategies for healthcare. ... mais »
Cancer & Infection
Study: 1 in 6 Cancers Are Caused by Infection A new study finds that 2 million new cancers in 2008 were caused by preventabe or treatable infections like HPV and hepatits B. By ALEXANDRA SIFFERLIN | @acsifferlin | May 9, 2012 | 7 [image: Kwangshin Kim / Getty Images] KWANGSHIN KIM / GETTY IMAGES One in six cancer cases worldwide can be traced back to preventable or treatable infections, finds a new study. The data show that 2 million new cancers in 2008 were caused by such infections. The study by French researchers looked at the incidence of 27 cancers in 184 countries in eight geogra... mais »
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