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Heart Age Tops Actual Age in United States, CDC Says Robert Lowes September 01, 2015 - - - Related Drugs & Diseases - Risk Factors for Coronary Artery Disease - Primary and Secondary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease - Imaging in Coronary Artery Disease A new and simpler way to express a person's risk for a heart attack or stroke still shows the nation to be heart unhealthy on average, but this metric may provide more motivation for patients to adopt healthier lifestyles, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today. The metric is heart age... mais »
Sinusite Crônica JAMA
Medical Therapies for Adult Chronic SinusitisJAMAThis systematic review summarizes current evidence-based treatment of adult chronic sinusitis and proposes a treatment algorithm.
Visita a minhas irmãs em Santa Maria
No ultimo dia três, aniversário de uma de minhas irmãs - Maria Helena - fui a Santa Maria abraça-las. A viagem foi boa - 45 minutos num avião Azul, com retorno no dia seguinte. Transportou-me gentilmente do e para o aeroporto o Sr. Mauro. Passamos por uma ruas por onde eu nunca havia passado enquanto lá morava, onde vi de longe e externamente o estado lastimável das antigas oficinas da gloriosa VFRGS. O resto foi festa e festa e encontro com primos, muitas amigas de minhas irmãs e suas cuidadoras. Coloco a seguir *um pequeno filme* e algumas fotos.
Arte y Cerebro
*Nossa filha Lucia Helena enviou de Buenos Aires: sugestão para gauchos...*Arte y Cerebro en los MuseosContinúa el programa de visitas guiadas gratuitas para adultos mayores y pacientes con enfermedad de Alzheimer por los Museos de Buenos Aires. Primeros sábados de cada mes. Inscripción previo con cupos limitados. Programa de visitas guiadas a los museos porteños para personas con enfermedad de Alzheimer. Se continúan realizando en los Museos de Buenos Aires las visitas guiadas gratuitas para adultos mayores y pacientes con enfermedad de Alzheimer, que forman parte del programa "Arte... mais »
Closing the Gap
How can we create economic opportunity for all? How can we avoid technology-fueled unemployment tomorrow? [image:
Tom Friedman
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist] Tom FriedmanPulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist [image:Robert Reich
Former U.S. Labor Secretary] Robert ReichFormer U.S. Labor Secretary [image:Dr. Henry Kissinger
Nobel Peace Prize Winner] Dr. Henry KissingerNobel Peace Prize Winner [image:Nouriel Roubini
Economist, NYU Stern School of Business] Nouriel RoubiniEconomist, NYU Stern School of Business [image:Chrystia Freeland
Member of Parliam... mais »Age and fittness
Older people in Germany and England getting smarter, but not fitter September 1, 2015 [image: smarter not fitter] People over age 50 are scoring better on cognitive tests than people of the same age did in the past — a trend that could be linked to higher education rates and increased use of technology in our daily lives, according to a new study published in an open-access paper in the journal PLOS ONE. But the … more…
37 billion stars and galaxies
World’s most powerful, largest digital camera: 37 billion stars and galaxies 3.2-gigapixel digital camera will take digital images of the entire visible southern sky every few nights, producing 15 Terabytes of data September 1, 2015 The LSST’s camera will include a filter-changing mechanism and shutter. This animation shows that mechanism at work, which allows the camera to view different wavelengths; the camera is capable of viewing light from near-ultraviolet to near-infrared (0.3-1 μm) wavelengths. (credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) The Department of Energy has approved... mais »
DALYs and HALEs 1990-2013
Life expectancy climbs worldwide but people spend more years living with illness and disability September 2, 2015 [image: Life expectancy at birth, both sexes, 2013 (credit: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation)] Global life expectancy has risen by more than six years since 1990 The good news: as for 2013, global life expectancy for people in 188 countries has risen 6.2 years since 1990 (65.3 to 71.5). The bad news: healthy life expectancy (HALE) at birth rose by only 5.4 years (56.9 to 62.3), due to fatal and nonfatal ailments (interactive visualization by country here). In o... mais »
Parkinson's D
Treatement with noninvasive focused ultrasound for Parkinson’s disease September 2, 2015 [image: University of Maryland medical doctors monitor focused ultrasound treatment for essential tremor, guided by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (credit: University of Maryland School of Medicine)] Researchers at the University of Maryland have performed the first focused ultrasound treatments on a deep structure within the brain related to Parkinson’s disease* called the globus pallidus. These treatments are part of international pilot studies of 40 patients assessing the feasibility, safety... mais »
Happiness
World Happiness Report 2015 Ranks Happiest Countries APRIL 23, 2015 *World Happiness Report 2015 Ranks Happiest Countries* *Seen as source for world leaders as they set to adopt Sustainable Development Goals* NEW YORK, April 23 – Since it was first published in 2012, the *World Happiness Report*demonstrated that well-being and happiness are critical indicators of a nation’s economic and social development, and should be a key aim of policy. This year’s report looks at the changes in happiness levels in 158 countries, and examines the reasons behind the statistics. The *World Happine... mais »
quantum motion
Seeing quantum motionAugust 28, 2015 by Jessica Stoller-Conrad [image: Seeing quantum motion] Credit: Chan Lei and Keith Schwab/Caltech Consider the pendulum of a grandfather clock. If you forget to wind it, you will eventually find the pendulum at rest, unmoving. However, this simple observation is only valid at the level of classical physics—the laws and principles that appear to explain the physics of relatively large objects at human scale. However, quantum mechanics, the underlying physical rules that govern the fundamental behavior of matter and light at the atomic scale, state ... mais »
New Drugs
theheart.org on Medscape > Heartfelt with Dr Melissa Walton-Shirley COMMENTARYNew Cardio Drugs: Here's to Hopeful New Prescribing Melissa Walton-Shirley Disclosures|August 25, 2015 Last week I experienced a tumultuous interface with the pharmaceutical industry. In the space of a few hours, three representatives came bearing information on the compounds formerly known as S-16257, REGN727, and LCZ696. They've been awarded the clumsy generic names of ivabradine, alirocumab, and sacubitril/valsartan, respectively. After spinning in the marketing bin, they tumbled out as *Corlanor* (Amgen),... mais »
Metrics
Our obsession with metrics is corrupting science Andrew Beattie, Mike Calver | September 1, 2015 | 1 CommentDownload as PDF NessieNoodle | Flickr | CC BY-SA https://www.flickr.com/photos/glitch_nitch/645244048/ Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. – William Bruce Cameron
Plebiscito
01 de setembro de 2015 | N° 18281 ARTIGOSSAÍDA DA CRISE: POR QUE NÃO UM PLEBISCITO? *POR ANTONIO DOMINGOS PADULA** Os acontecimentos dos últimos meses revelam uma realidade quase incontestável: o governo do RS está próximo da insolvência. Em agosto, houve parcelamento nos pagamentos e estratificação nas faixas salariais. Agora, em setembro, está-se novamente diante da necessidade de parcelamento do pagamento e com redução na estratificação salarial. Como será outubro? Como se chegou a essa situação é uma longa história. No entanto, parece que estamos diante de uma grande oportunidade... mais »
Human Super-Predators
*REPORT: The unique ecology of human predators* *Abstract: *Paradigms of sustainable exploitation focus on population dynamics of prey and yields to humanity but ignore the behavior of humans as predators. We compared patterns of predation by contemporary hunters and fishers with those of other predators that compete over shared prey (terrestrial mammals and marine fishes). Our global survey (2125 estimates of annual finite exploitation rate) revealed that humans kill adult prey, the reproductive capital of populations, at much higher median rates than other predators (up to 14 time... mais »
Exercise and atherosclerosis
ESC 2015 *Luis Serratosa* @LSerratosa 1h1 hour ago Impressive results in veteran athletes study presented by Dr Merghani @ StGeorgesUni @SSharmacardio *Luis Serratosa* @LSerratosa 1h1 hour ago Impressive results in veteran athletes study presented by Dr Merghani @ StGeorgesUni @SSharmacardio #ESCcongress pic.twitter.com/v69jCGxIGw
microvascular disease
The science of microvascular diseaseESC Congress News 2015 - London30 Aug 2015 IN THIS MORNING’S William Harvey lecture Axel Pries will challenge basic scientists to explore the ‘black box’ of the microcirculation. ‘To my mind, the coronary microcirculation, the business end of the circulation where oxygen diffuses into cells, represents one of the contemporary frontiers in cardiology research,’ says Pries, from the Charité University of Medicine, Berlin. ‘We still know extraordinarily little about what’s going on here.’ Basic Sciences, Pharmacology, Genomics and Cardiovascular Patho... mais »
Oliver Sachs (Londres, 9 de julho de 1933- Nova Iorque, 30 de agosto de 2015)
New post on *Mind Hacks*Oliver Sacks has left the buildingby vaughanbell [image: CC Licensed Photo from Wikipedia. Click for source.]Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks has died at the age of 82. It's hard to overestimate the impact of Oliver Sacks on the public's understanding of the brain, its disorders and our diversity as humans. Sacks's wrote what he called 'romantic science'. Not romance in the sense of romantic love, but romantic in the sense of the romantic poets, who used narrative to describe the subtitles of human nature, often in contrast to the enlightenment values of quan... mais »
