Império dos Monopólios

Recomendado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja
O Império dos Monopólios

“Setor após setor, assistimos a um crescimento da concentração de mercado; setor após setor, assistimos a um crescimento da margem de lucro bruta (a diferença entre preços e custos de produção). Não só aumentou o poder de mercado das empresas, mas também diminuiu o poder de mercado dos trabalhadores.”
A opinião é do economista estadunidense Joseph Stiglitz, prêmio Nobel de Economia de 2001 e professor da Columbia University. O artigo foi publicado por La Repubblica, 22-11-2017. A tradução é de Moisés Sbardelotto.

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Muitos países avançados estão lidando com uma síndrome que parece sugerir uma “economia doente”: desigualdade elevada, baixo crescimento, investimentos escassos, crescimento da produtividade atrofiado. É desconcertante a fraqueza dos investimentos, considerando-se os lucros elevados e o baixo nível das taxas de juros. É um quebra-cabeças particular aquilo que está acontecendo nos Estados Unidos: teoricamente, são o país mais inovador do mundo, mas os dados indicam um crescimento medíocre da produtividade e um ritmo baixo de criação de novas empresas./.../

Neuropathic Pain

New Avenue For Drug Treatment in Neuropathic Pain by Neuroscience News Blocking dorsal root ganglion pain neurons from releasing microRNA-21 has an anti-inflammatory effect at the cellular level, preventing neuropathic pain, researchers report. Read more of this post Neuroscience News | November 24, 2017 at 10:58 am | Tags: exome, microRNA-21, planning | URL: https://wp.me/p4sXNK-bKf Comment    See all comments

Elder death

Idea / Death Is the death of an elder worse than the death of a young person? Amy Olberding

semi-permeable architecture

Idea / Architecture & Landscape

Let’s open our sealed-off lives to semi-permeable architecture

Rachel Armstrong

The art of Flying

Lembrei-me dos planadores, embora estes milhares tenham motor próprio. Mas deve haver uma explicação mais complexa para manterem a ordem, a direção​, mudarem tão rapidamente o curso, e não se chocarem. É possível que haja algo mais a aprender para vivermos não tão agregados com mais sucesso...

Video / Biology One of the most wondrous markers of the end of the day is a murmuration of starlings 2 minutes

Earth’s interior

A scanning electron microscope image shows a nematode in biofilm (blue), in its natural deep-subsurface habitat. The scale bar is 20 micrometres (μm) long. All images courtesy Gaetan Borgonie

Life goes deeper

The Earth is not a solid mass of rock: its hot, dark, fractured subsurface is home to weird and wonderful life forms

The living landscape all around us is just a thin veneer atop the vast, little-understood bulk of the Earth’s interior. A widespread misconception about the deep subsurface is that this realm consists of a continuous mass of uniform compressed solid rock. Few are aware that this mass of rock is heavily fractured, and water runs in many of these fractures and faults, down to depths of many kilometres. The deep Earth supports an entire biosphere, largely cut off from the surface world, and is still only beginning to be explored and understood.
The amount of water in the subsurface is considerable. Globally, the freshwater reservoir in the subsurface is estimated to be up to 100 times as great as all the available fresh water in the rivers, lakes and swamps combined. This water, ranging in ages from seven years to 2 billion years, is being intensely studied by researchers because it defines the location and scope of deep life. We know now that the deep terrestrial subsurface is home to one quintillion simple (prokaryotic) cells. That is two to 20 times as many cells as live in all the open ocean. By some estimates, the deep biosphere could contain up to one third of Earth’s entire biomass./.../

Diet for Parkinson’s Patients

Dietary Changes May Improve Life Expectancy for Parkinson’s Patients by Neuroscience News A high calorie diet may increase life expectancy and reduce dependency for some Parkinson's patients, a new study reports. Read more of this post Neuroscience News | November 24, 2017 at 9:23 am | URL: https://wp.me/p4sXNK-bK9 Comment    See all comments

Crushed insect Bread...

This Bakery Wants You to Try its Latest Delicacy: Crushed Insect Bread

By Eli Meixler

11:08 PM EST

One Finnish company is at the forefront of what it calls is a food revolution: bread made from insects.
Finnish bakery and food service company Fazer started rolling out loaves of bread this week with flour made from dried and crushed crickets, which the company says is the first insect-based bread of its kind available to consumers. The bread contains more protein than normal wheat bread, according to Fazer, with each loaf containing about 70 crickets.
“It offers consumers with a good protein source and also gives them an easy way to familiarize themselves with insect-based food,” Fazer’s head of innovation Juhani Sibakov said in a statement.
While eating insects — known as entomophagy — is common practice in parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, it’s begun gaining traction in Europe and the U.S., especially as concerns mount about climate change affecting food supplies and increasing global hunger. According to a 2013 report by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, the global food burden will reach 9 million people by 2030. Industrial livestock farming, including pigs and cows, produces large quantities greenhouse gases. Partaking of the 1,900 edible species of insects, which include ants, beetles, caterpillars, and even bees and wasps, could help“Mankind needs new and sustainable sources of nutrition,” Sibakov said.
More crawlers have found their way onto restaurant plates in the U.S. and Canada in recent years, while products like insect-enriched protein bars are now available on Amazon. Earlier this month, Finland became the fifth country in Europe to allow selling insects marketed as food items, joining the U.K., Austria, Belgium, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
Fazer said it began developing the bread last summer, but had to wait until it could legally market it in supermarkets.
“I don’t taste the difference,” Helsinki student Sara Koivisto told Reuters. “It tastes like bread.”

Michael Marmot on the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Recomendado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja Table of Contents Alert Scandinavian Journal of Public Health- Volume: 45, Number: 7 (November 2017) Editorial Can social epidemiology contribute to a better world? Steinar Westin Sir Michael Marmot Special Issue The health gap: Doctors and the social determinants of health Michael Marmot Meeting Sir Michael Marmot – another ‘Marmot Review’ Steinar Westin Introducing Sir Michael Marmot as Dr Honoris Causas at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Geir Arild Espnes Thank you Michael Marmot Technological innovations and the rise of social inequalities in health Daniel Weiss and Terje Andreas Eikemo Public health educational comprehensiveness: The strategic rationale in establishing networks among schools of public health Robert Otok, Katarzyna Czabanowska, and Anders Foldspang Closing the health gap Michael Marmot

Charles Darwin

1859:

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published on this day.

O Perú e o Planador

No dia 21 p.p. tivemos duas belas apresentações no Encontro Literário da Academia Sul-Riograndense de Medicina: A rica apresentação do primeiro palestrante está prometida para ser acessada no site da Academia:academiademedicinars.com.br  
Aprendi também o princípio físico do vôo por planador lembrando-me artigo que publiquei na ZH há mais de 20 anos (11 de março de 1997) a propósito de princípio semelhante, que pode ser sintetizado como aproveitamento da Força da Gravidade, administrando a queda (texto reproduzido no final)...

Presidente do encontro: Acadêmico Darcy Ribeiro Pinto Filho

Responsável pelo evento: Acadêmico Rogério Gastal Xavier

Palestrantes: 

1.Acadêmico José da Silva Moreira:

“Da matemática ao pensamento médico”

  

                                                      Euclides matemático (Raphael Escola de Atenas)

2.Acadêmico Jorge Neumann:

 "História da aviação no RS”

      

                                   
De Havilland Dragon Rapide da Varig, no MUSAL

                                                                                     

Mobile Health

The Promise, Growth, and Reality of Mobile Health — Another Data-free Zone

Amira Roess, Ph.D., M.P.H.

N Engl J Med 2017; 377:2010-2011November 23, 2017DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1713180

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Mobile health (mHealth) tools and apps are proliferating and are increasingly being used by patients and clinicians, many of them in low- and middle-income countries. But the evidence supporting most mHealth interventions is still limited.

Cinnamon

Cinnamon Has a Surprising Health Benefit

By Amanda MacMillan

November 22, 2017

TIME Health

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If you love cinnamon, add an extra shake to your next meal: new research shows that the popular spice boosts metabolism in mouse and human fat cells.

In the new study, published in the journal Metabolism, researchers from the University of Michigan tested the effect of cinnamaldehyde—the essential oil that gives cinnamon its flavor—on fat cells taken from mice, as well as fat cells from four humans.

They found that exposure to cinnamon oil triggered both the mouse and the human cells to start burning calories through a process known as thermogenesis. A closer look showed that the oil increased the activity of several genes, enzymes and proteins that are known to enhance fat metabolism./.../

Aging Health

Aging Health and R&D for Healthy Longevity Must Be Included into the WHO Work Program

Stambler Ilia^1,3, Jin Kunlin^2,3, Lederman Stephanie⁴, Barzilai Nir^4,5, Jay Olshansky S.^4,6, Omokaro Emem⁷, Barratt Jane⁸, N. Anisimov Vladimir⁹, Rattan Suresh^10,11, Yang Shaohua^2,3, Forster Michael^2,3, Byles Julie¹²

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It can be confidently stated that global population aging is both the greatest success of global public health efforts of the past, as well as the greatest challenge for the further global public health efforts of the future.

Over the past decades, life expectancy at birth has increased globally, reaching a world-wide average of about 71.5 in 2017 (7 years longer than in 1990) and around 80 in the developed countries (compared to about 50 years in the developed countries in the early 20th century). This achievement occurred primarily due to advances in basic public health such as sanitation, clean water, waste disposal, temperature controlled living and working environments, and advances in medical technology -- all of which yielded large and rapid declines in communicable diseases. Beginning with the last quarter of the 20th century, progress made against chronic fatal diseases (especially heart disease) from new diagnostic tools, treatments, and improved behavioral risk factors (such as reductions in smoking), generated further increases in life expectancy, although at a slower pace. Currently, while the highest life expectancies are still found in the “developed” countries, the opportunity for rising longevity remains likely for “developing” world in the coming decades. Considering that both rising longevity and population aging are likely demographic events in the coming decades, by 2050 the proportion of people over 60 years is expected to double from about 13% to nearly 25%, which, in absolute terms, means an increase from 962 million to 2.1 billion people [1]. Rising longevity during the last 150 years is a testament to human ingenuity, and there is reason to believe further advances are possible./.../
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Aging is excluded from WHO work program. Please react!

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Posted by ilia2014 on Nov 10, 2017 in Advocacy, English | Comments Off

Dear friends,

I wanted to bring to your attention an important and urgent issue for aging care and research.

It turns out that in the forthcoming work program of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the years 2019-2023 – the issue of aging and aging-related ill health is excluded completely! This means that, within the next 5-6 years (2018 given to the program deliberations), according to this document, the World Health Organization is not obliged to do anything to care for the health of older persons or to improve their health, not to mention conduct any research and development to create new therapies and technologies for improving the health of the aged, or any kind of longevity research. The issues of aged health are not in the WHO work program! This is the essence of ageism in health care and health research!

http://www.who.int/about/gpw-thirteen-consultation/en/

Noemy Valle Rocha (1889-1978)

Nosso amigo Blau Fabrício de Souza apresentou-me esta grande mulher, médica e escritora, dando-me um livro com várias contribuições suas.

BR: Mortalidade hospitalar

Saúde

A cada 5 minutos, 3 brasileiros morrem em hospitais por falhas 

Cerca de 829 brasileiros morrem diariamente em hospitais públicos e privados por falhas que poderiam ser evitadas, segundo o Anuário da Segurança Assistencial Hospitalar no Brasil, realizado pelo IESS (Instituto de Estudos de Saúd... - Veja mais em https://noticias.uol.com.br/saude/ultimas-noticias/redacao/2017/11/22/a-cada-5-minutos-3-brasileiros-morrem-em-hospitais-por-falhas.htm?cmpid=copiaecola

US: Anti-smoking Ads

Big Tobacco Will Finally Run Court-Ordered Anti-Smoking Ads

Corrective statements will run 11 years after ruling

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• by Salynn Boyles, Contributing WriterNovember 21, 2017

Starting Sunday -- more than a decade after a federal court ordered them to do so -- major tobacco companies in the U.S. will launch advertising designed to highlight the deadly nature of their products.

The ads, which will run in major newspapers and on television networks, will include specific, agreed-upon, statements, including:/.../