Universal Health Coverage: World Bank
*World Bank Health* @WBG_Health FollowingFollowing @WBG_Health More Why should universal health coverage be important to all governments and why investing in it should be a priority. Blog: http://wrld.bg/maAD30p0K0N @NOIweala More
Low-birth-weight: worldwide 2000-2016
National, regional, and worldwide estimates of low birthweight in 2015, with trends from 2000: a systematic analysis - Hannah Blencowe, MRCPCH - Julia Krasevec, MSc - Mercedes de Onis, MD - Prof Robert E Black, MD - Xiaoyi An, MA - Gretchen A Stevens, DSc - et al. - Show all authors - Show footnotes Open AccessPublished:May 15, 2019 - *Download PDF [3 MB]* - DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30565-5 Summary Background Low birthweight (LBW) of less than 2500 g is an important marker of maternal and fetal health, predicting mortality, stunting,... mais »
Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupéry, (born June 29, 1900, Lyon, France
The Little Prince FABLE BY SAINT-EXUPÉRY WRITTEN BY: - Kate Lohnes - Cathy Lowne See Article History *Alternative Title:* “Le Petit Prince” *The Little Prince*, French *Le Petit Prince*, fable and modern classic by French aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry that was published with his own illustrations in French as *Le Petit Prince* in 1943. The simple tale tells the story of a child, the little prince, who travels the universe gaining wisdom. The novellahas been translated into hundreds of languages and has sold some 200 million copies worldwide, making it one of ... mais »
The Geometry of Thought
The Geometry of Thought A Conversation with Barbara Tversky [6.25.19] *Slowly, the significance of spatial thinking is being recognized, of reasoning with the body acting in space, of reasoning with the world as given, but even more with the things that we create in the world. Babies and other animals have amazing feats of thought, without explicit language. /.../*
On "Manels", for my AMICOR girls
NIH Director Francis Collins Has a Plan to Help Eliminate "Manels" BY ALICE PARK JUNE 24, 2019 If you want Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, to speak at your next event or conference, he has one important condition. Any panel in which he participates has to include a diverse range of speakers from different backgrounds and show a fair gender distribution. “If I don’t see that,” he says, “I will respectfully, or not so respectfully, decline. And not come.” Collins laid out his requirements in an announcement, published on June 12, titled “Time to End... mais »
Too much medicine
Too much medicine [image: Too much medicine] The BMJ’s Too Much Medicine initiative aims to highlight the threat to human health posed by overdiagnosis and the waste of resources on unnecessary care. We are part of a movement of doctors, researchers, patients, and policymakers who want to describe, raise awareness of, and find solutions to the problem of too much medicine. Causes of too much medicine include expanded disease definitions, uncritical adoption of population screening, disease mongering and medicalisation, commercial vested interest, strongly held clinical beliefs, incre... mais »
AD and BP
Blood Pressure Reduction and Alzheimer's Disease-Study examines nilvadipine and cerebral blood flow, showing increased, safe flow to hippocampus by Vicki Brower , CME Writer, MedPage Today June 23, 2019 *CME Author:* Vicki Brower *Study Authors:* Daan L. K. de Jong, Rianne A. A. de Heus, et al. *Target Audience and Goal Statement:* Neurologists, geriatricians, cardiologists, internists, family medicine specialists The goal of this study was to determine whether blood pressure reduction with antihypertensive medication could affect cerebral blood flow, in particular, to the hippocampus a...mais »
Expanding Universe?
Ask Ethan: What Could Solve The Cosmic Controversy Over The Expanding Universe? Two independent techniques give precise but incompatible answers. Here’s how to resolve it. Ethan Siegel in Starts With A Bang!9 min read
collective unconscious
How Jung’s collective unconscious inspired Alcoholics Anonymous Por Charles Fox aeon.co 5 min Exibir original psychology Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an international mutual-aid fellowship with more than 2 million members worldwide. It strives to help members ‘stay sober and other alcoholics achieve sobriety’. Despite the fact that studies of its efficacy have been inconsistent, AA has had a significant and long-term effect on the culture of the United States and one of its founders was among *Time* magazine’s most important people of the 20th century.
Mosquitoes
Why Do Some People Always Get Bitten by Mosquitoes, While Others Don't? By Grant Currin, Live Science Contributor | June 22, 2019 07:42am ET Some people can sit outside all summer long and not suffer from mosquito bites. Others turn into an itchy mess despite bathing in DEETand never leaving the purple glow of the bug zapper. What gives? It's mostly about the invisible chemical landscape of the air around us. Mosquitoes take advantage of this landscape by using specialized behaviors and sensory organs to find victims by following the subtle chemical traces their bodies leave behind. "M... mais »
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Parabéns ao casal. Nós também casamos em julho, 24 de 1961 já já se vão quase sessenta anos
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