Greetings to ProCOR! 15th anniversary
*A message to the ProCor network* ProCor is this month celebrating a 15th anniversary. In this time there have been tremendous changes in the global landscape of cardiovascular prevention... [image: Dr. Bernard Lown] Bernard Lown, MD ProCor Founder. Research Pioneer. Nobel Laureate. Learn more >
WCC 2012: Post-congress news
** **LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONGRESS www.worldcardiocongress.org****LEARN MORE ABOUT THE WORLD HEART FEDERATION www.worldheart.org****TELL US WHAT YOU THINKcongress@worldheart.org WCC SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS 2012 NEWS / May 2012* The World Congress of Cardiology (WCC) 2012 is now over. The World Heart Federation would like to thank the participants, committees, faculty members, exhibitors, its members and ... mais »
Well-connected brains
Well-connected brains make you smarter in older ageMay 24, 2012 Core subnetwork (PNAS) Older people with robust brain “wiring” — nerve fibers that connect different, distant brain areas — can process information quickly and that this makes them generally smarter, University of Edinburgh research suggests. According to the findings, joining distant parts of the brain together with better wiring improves mental performance, suggesting that intelligence is not found in a single part of the brain. However a loss of condition of this wiring or “white matter” — the billions of nerve fibers... mais »
Childhood Stress
Childhood Stress Leaves Genetic Scars by Katherine Rowland on 24 April 2012, 2:19 PM | 7 Comments ENLARGE IMAGE [image: sn-telomeres.jpg] *Early damage.* Telomeres (red) are shorter in children who have been abused. Credit: Pasleka/Photo Researchers Inc. Traumatic experiences in early life can leave emotional scars. But a new study suggests that violence in childhood may leave a genetic mark as well. Researchers have found that children who are physically abused and bullied tend to have shorter telomeres—structures at the tips of chromosomes whose shrinkage has been linked to aging a... mais »
Bacterial weapons
[image: MPI_syringes] Syringes isolated from Shigella flexneri. Adding soluble needle protein leads to a spontaneous elongation of some needles. The bar corresponds to 100 nanometers (1 nanometer corresponds to a millionth millimeter). (Credit: Christian Goosmann, Michael Kolbe/Mac Planck Institute) Zooming in on bacterial weapons in 3D The researchers deciphered the structure of the needle atom by atom and visualised its molecular architecture for the first time in the angstrom range (one tenth of a nanometer). This required progresses in several fields. “We have made big steps for... mais »
From skin to heart
*Alert from AMICOR Jorge Ossanai*Scientists Turn Human Skin Cells Into Healthy Heart Cells By ALEXANDRA SIFFERLIN | @acsifferlin | May 23, 2012 | [image: Dr. John D. Cunningham / Getty Images] DR. JOHN D. CUNNINGHAM / GETTY IMAGES In a medical first, scientists in Haifa, Israel, took skin cells from two heart failure patients and reprogrammed them into stem cells that generated healthy, beating heart muscle cells in the lab. Though human testing is likely a decade off, the hope is that such cells can be used to help people with heart failure repair their damaged hearts with their own... mais »
WHO
Gabriel Scally on Andrew Lansley’s Geneva fantasy at the World Health Assembly 24 May, 12 | by BMJ Group Sometimes, while attending a World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, I get the feeling that I am in a parallel universe where diplomat speak serves to smooth over unresolvable conflict and where we are discussing not the world as it is but a fantasyland. That feeling was never stronger than when listening to contributions from the US delegation during the worst of the Bush era. Maintaining a connection with the reality of inequality and preventable death and disease is made more d... mais »
Lia M. Cechella Achutti
Minha irmã artista. Exposição em Santa Maria e notícia em jornal.
10 Fully Democratic Countries of 2011
Top 10 Fully Democratic Countries of 2011REDOCEAN FEBRUARY 18, 2012 2 Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) published it 4th democracy index report for the year 2011 (as of beginning of December). This index gives a brief picture of the world wide democracy including 165 independent states, 2 territories and covering almost all of the world’s population and independent states excluding micro states. Ranking is done on basis of Overall Democracy Index which is based on 5 categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; a... mais »
Medical Records
*Alerta do AMICOR Jorge Ossanai* 10 Ways to Lose Your Medical Records Medical information is a gold mine for thieves. They can steal your identity, pull insurance scams or even blackmail you with that information. Unfortunately, there are more ways today for your health records to fall into the wrong hands than ever before.
Freebase
Freebase Medicine*Freebase* is an open, Creative Commonslicensed graph database with more than *22 million* entities. An *entity* is a single person, place, or thing. Freebase connects entities together as agraph. Ways to use Freebase: - Use Freebase's *Ids*to uniquely identify entities anywhere on the web - *Query* Freebase's data using MQL - Build *applications*using our API orAcre, our hosted development platform Freebase is also a*community* of thousands of data-lovers, working together to improve Freebase's data. Learn how to contribute, join our mailing list, or fi... mais »
Periodontal Disease and Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease
- AHA Scientific Statement Periodontal Disease and Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease: Does the Evidence Support an Independent Association?A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association 1. Peter B. Lockhart, DDS, Co-Chair; et al. 1. A link between oral health and cardiovascular disease has been proposed for more than a century. Recently, concern about possible links between periodontal disease (PD) and atherosclerotic vascular disease (ASVD) has intensified and is driving an active field of investigation into possible association and causality. Th... mais »
Social inequality
Relationship Between Social Status and Wound-Healing in Wild Baboons *Findings show it's best to be "top baboon"* [image: Photo of an adult male baboon resting on a tree near Amboseli National Park, Kenya.]An adult male baboon rests on a tree near Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Credit and Larger Version *May 21, 2012* Turns out it's not bad being top dog, or in this case, top baboon. Results of a study by University of Notre Dame biologist Beth Archie and colleagues from Princeton University and Duke University finds that male baboons that have a high rank within their society recover ... mais »
urine/blood test: pancreatic cancer
Maryland teen wins world's largest high school science competition Published May 21, 2012 *Alerta do AMICOR Jorge Ossanai* [image: Intel-ISEF-2012_Opening-Ceremony.jpg] - May 15, 2012: Last night, the world's largest high school science research competition, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, a program of Society for Science & the Public, kicked off with a celebration of the 70 countries represented by the more than 1,500 9th - 12th graders who are competing this week for more than $3 million in awards. (Intel) - AP Photo/Franka Bruns N... mais »
Heart Attacks Risk
*Artigo selecionado pelo AMICOR Jorge Ossanai* * * *Alguma semelhança com a estratégia de invadir o Irak em busca de armas de destruição em massa? Da invasão do Afeganistão em busca de um único culpado? Ou de incentivar a indústria automobilística e dar suporte aos bancos para aquecer a economia em recessão?...(o comentário em verde vai por minha conta, AAchutti)* * * U.S. Panel Backs Broader Steps To Reduce Risk of Heart Attacks By GINA KOLATA Published: May 16, 2001 ** Impressed by mounting evidence that deaths from heart disease could be significantly reduced with aggressive treatm... mais »
Cérebro humano
* Vídeo * *Revising the numbers* Agora legendado em inglês: vídeo sobre a anatomia do cérebro humano, que mostra como os pesquisadores chegaram ao número de 86 bilhões de neurônios, em vez de 100 bilhões como se acreditava anos atrás. *Vale a pena ver o Vídeo que está neste arquivo, bem como outros cujos links aparecem ao final*
EVOLUTION OF PRIMARY CARE
The Evolving Primary Care Physician Susan Okie, M.D. N Engl J Med 2012; 366:1849-1853May 17, 2012 *Selected by the AMICOR Jorge Ossana* ReferencesComments (3) Audio Interview [image: Interview with Dr. Susan Okie on the ongoing evolution of the primary care physician.] Interview with Dr. Susan Okie on the ongoing evolution of the primary care physician. (16:45) - Listen - Download The primary care doctor is a rapidly evolving species — and in the future could become an endangered one. As the United States grapples with the dual challenges of making health care more widely avail... mais »
Pain Relief
Distraction As Pain Relief *Referred by the AMICOR Jorge Ossanai* Main Category: Pain / Anesthetics Also Included In: Psychology / Psychiatry Article Date: 19 May 2012 - 0:00 PD Mental distractions make pain easier to take, and those pain-relieving effects aren't just in your head, according to a report published online in *Current Biology*, a Cell Press publication. The findings based on high-resolution spinal fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) as people experienced painful levels of heat show that mental distractions actually inhibit the response to incoming pain signals... mais »
Happiest cities
The happiest cities in the world By Rachel James | May 18, 2012, 5:00 AM PDT 0Comments more + - - - - - - - Feeling overall satisfaction with your everyday environment is no small feat. Ericsson’s Consumer Lab just put out a report (PDF) detailing how happy residents actually are in 13 cities worldwide./.../
New Kind of Science
Looking to the Future of *A New Kind of Science*Stephen Wolfram May 14, 2012 *(This is the third in a series of posts about A New Kind of Science. Previous posts have covered the original reaction to the book and what’s happened since it was published.)* Today ten years have passed since *A New Kind of Science* (”the NKS book”) was published. But in many ways the development that started with the book is still only just beginning. And over the next several decades I think its effects will inexorably become ever more obvious and important. Indeed, even at an everyday level I expect tha... mais »
MARIA JOSÉ PIRES DA ROCHA (60 ANOS DO FALECIMENTO)
*MARIA JOSÉ PIRES DA ROCHA* (1929-1952) Hoje, dia 18 de maio, completam-se 60 anos do trágico falecimento de nossa amiga e companheira, na flor de seus 23 anos. Data desta época meu namoro com sua amiga - hoje minha esposa - Valderês Antonietta Robinson. Para quem for de Santa Maria, e estiver interessado, mais dados e imagens podem ser obtidos através do link acima da foto. Seus amigos sobreviventes devem se reunir hoje às 18:30 em missas que serão celebradas simultaneamente aqui em Porto Alegre e em Santa Maria
SOCIAL SCIENCES
How Reliable Are the Social Sciences?By GARY GUTTING [image: The Stone] The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. TAGS: PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL SCIENCES Public policy debates often involve appeals to results of work in social sciences like economics and sociology. For example, in his State of the Union address this year, President Obama cited a recent high-profile study to support his emphasis on evaluating teachers by their students’ test scores. The study purportedly shows that students with teachers who raise their standardized test score
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