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The Whole Brain Atlas - 2 views

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shared by Holly Barlaam on 04 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Holly Barlaam on 04 Aug 11
     
    Collection of images of the brain. Includes normal brain anatomy, stroke, tumor, degenerative diseases, inflammatory diseases.
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Health - 0 views

www.cleancookstoves.org/...health-impacts.html clean cookstoves health research project 2013
shared by Caroline Dutton on 12 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that exposure to smoke from the simple act of cooking is the fifth worst risk factor for disease in developing countries, and causes almost two million premature deaths per year – exceeding deaths attributable to malaria or tuberculosis.
  • Women in developing countries are also at risk of head and spinal injuries, pregnancy complications, and maternal mortality from the strenuous task of carrying heavy loads of firewood or other fuels. Frequent exposure to cookstove smoke can also cause disabling health impacts like cataracts, which affect women more than men, and is the leading cause of blindness in developing countries.
  • Rudimentary wood-fired cookstoves and open fires emit fine particles, carbon monoxide, and other pollutants at levels up to 100 times higher than the recommended limits set by WHO
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  • A randomized-control study in Guatemala led by the University of California, Berkeley, found that halving exposure to indoor air pollution with a chimney stove brought about a reduction in severe pneumonia, and that larger reductions in exposure had more pronounced effects. A systematic review of all available studies on the link between solid fuel use and child pneumonia has found an almost doubling of risk for those exposed.
  • Burns from open fires and unsafe cookstoves are another insidious risk faced by poor households dependent on kerosene, open fires, and unstable metal or clay cookstoves, contributing to a substantial percentage of the estimated 300,000 burn deaths that occur annually
  • While the link between exposure to cookstove smoke and a wide range of health problems such as pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and lung cancer is well established, the current body of evidence linking cookstoves with other potentially important health effects is compelling but less documented
  • Nearly all of the existing evidence is based on observational studies that compare groups using open fires and traditional cookstoves with those using cleaner fuels, with very little being directly obtained from studies that directly measure the effects of interventions.
  • More evidence is needed to demonstrate that the levels of exposure reduction delivered by clean cookstove and fuels will result in declines in related illnesses and deaths.
  • Caroline Dutton on 12 Feb 13
     
    This is the Global alliance for Clean Cookstoves website. They offer much information about the issues surrounding the topic and their action plan for affecting change!
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untitled - 14 views

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  • ggslibrary on 22 Mar 16
     
    health WHO worldhealthorganisation disease map outbreak
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FACTS2-Wallis.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 12 views

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      Tish Newmyer on 02 Jul 12
       
      This is a test.
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    England disease
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Intentionally unvaccinated students putting other children at risk - 8 views

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  • Peter Beens on 31 Aug 12
     
    Parents nervous about the safety of vaccinations for their children may be causing a new problem: the comeback of their grandparents' childhood diseases, reports a new study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.
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Sexting Among Teens Means Risk [STUDY] - 26 views

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 19 Sep 12
     
    ""No one's actually going to get a sexually transmitted disease because they're sexting," Dr. Eric Rice, a researcher from the School of Social Network at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, told Reuters. "What we really wanted to know is, is there a link between sexting and taking risks with your body? And the answer is a pretty resounding 'yes.'" "
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Bill Gates and the Cult of Measurement | Diane Ravitch's blog - 44 views

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 30 Dec 13
     
    "This year, my letter focuses on the catalytic role that measurement can play in reducing hunger, poverty, and disease. Setting goals and measuring progress are obviously not new ideas. But over the last year, I've really been struck by the impact this can have improving the lives of the poorest."
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Newly Discovered Protein Function Linked to Breast Cancer | UANews.org - 9 views

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shared by Dallas McPheeters on 13 Jul 10 - Cached
  • he researchers report their findings in the advance online publication of the Nature Cell Biology July issue. The cells in our bodies constantly sense their environment and respond appropriately. For example, if pathogens invade the body, cells will respond by generating an inflammatory environment to fight the pathogen. This is achieved by intricate molecular circuits within cells that sense and relay external signals and orchestrate the cellular response. Aberrant functioning of these cellular switch boards can lead to diseases including autoimmune disorders and cancer. In the study, an the scientists set out to better understand the molecular workings underlying inflammation. Inflammation, the body's primary line of defense against disease-causing microbes and parasites, is a highly complex and tightly regulated biochemical process involving a myriad of specialized cells communicating with each other through an arsenal of signaling molecules.
    • Dallas McPheeters
      Dallas McPheeters on 13 Jul 10
       
      Excellent explanation of how cells communicate in the human body.
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Part 3: Are we medicating a disorder or treating boyhood as a disease? - The Globe and ... - 18 views

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shared by Peter Beens on 25 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Last year, more than two million prescriptions for Ritalin and other ADHD drugs were written specifically for children under 17, and at least 75 per cent of them were for young males. Part 3 of a 6-part series.
  • taking a drug for attention deficit disorder each morning has become as commonplace as downing a vitamin.
  • prescriptions for Ritalin and other amphetamine-like drugs for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder shot up to 2.9 million in 2009, a jump of more than 55 per cent in four years.
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  • 75 per cent of them were for young males
  • “It certainly suggests the drugs are being abused,” says Gordon Floyd, president and CEO of Children's Mental Health Ontario. “There's a desire for the quick fix … the idea that – ‘oh, we'll fix this with a pill' – rather than spend a few months in counselling, is pretty appealing.”
  • ADHD is one of the most commonly diagnosed disorders of childhood, with core features that include an inability to focus, and hyper and impulsive behaviour. Increasingly, it's seen as a chronic condition that 60 per cent of kids never outgrow and one that experts estimate affects five per cent of children worldwide.
  • Boys are four times more likely to develop autism, three times more likely to suffer dyslexia, and two to three times more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD.
  • IMS figures show ADHD prescriptions for males have increased 50 per cent since 2005.
  • Peter Beens on 25 Oct 10
     
    Last year, more than two million prescriptions for Ritalin and other ADHD drugs were written specifically for children under 17, and at least 75 per cent of them were for young males (Canadian data). Part 3 of a 6-part series.
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SNPs: VARIATIONS ON A THEME - 18 views

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  • Holly Barlaam on 19 Nov 10
     
    Basic information about SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms), how they are found, how they are used in disease diagnosis and drug development, etc
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HHMI's Biointeractive Virtual Labs - 108 views

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shared by Holly Barlaam on 22 May 11 - Cached
  • Holly Barlaam on 22 May 11
     
    From HHMI. Virtual labs including the transgenic fly (how to make a transgenic organism), bacterial identification (techniques used to identify bacteria), a cardiology lab (heritable diseases), neurophysiology lab (activity of individual neurons), immunology lab (perform ELISA)
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Zika-affected Areas | Zika virus | CDC - 18 views

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  • Kathleen Howard DaQuanno on 29 Jan 16
     
    Information on Zika virus. Provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Teen girls more vulnerable to bullying than boys - 5 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 15 May 19 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 15 May 19
     
    "Girls are more often bullied than boys and are more likely to consider, plan, or attempt suicide, according to research led by a Rutgers University-Camden nursing scholar. "Bullying is significantly associated with depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, suicide planning, and suicide attempts," says Nancy Pontes, an assistant professor at the Rutgers School of Nursing-Camden. "We wanted to look at this link between bullying victimization, depressive symptoms, and suicidality by gender." In an examination of data from the Centers for Disease Control's nationally representative Youth Risk Behavior Survey from 2011-2015, Pontes and her fellow researchers conducted analyses of the data and found that more females are negatively affected by bullying."
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Teens need vigorous physical activity and fitness to cut heart risk - 10 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 01 Feb 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 01 Feb 18
     
    "Guidelines for teenagers should stress the importance of vigorous physical activity and fitness to cut the risk of heart disease, new research suggests. Current NHS guidelines say people aged 5 to 18 should do at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity each day to improve their current and future health. But in a study of adolescents aged 12 to 17, University of Exeter researchers found significant differences between the effects of moderate activity (such as brisk walking) and vigorous activity (activity that leaves people out of breath, such as team sports or running around a playground)."
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» Napster, Udacity, and the Academy Clay Shirky - 1 views

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shared by Celia Emmelhainz on 08 Feb 13 - No Cached
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      Celia Emmelhainz on 08 Feb 13
       
      And we've done all of that with education!
  • An organization with cost disease can use lower paid workers, increase the number of consumers per worker, subsidize production, or increase price
  • Cheap graduate students let a college lower the cost of teaching the sections while continuing to produce lectures as an artisanal product, from scratch, on site, real time
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  • We ask students to read the best works we can find, whoever produced them and where, but we only ask them to listen to the best lecture a local employee can produce that morning.
    • Celia Emmelhainz
      Celia Emmelhainz on 08 Feb 13
       
      Which is why I think amazing lectures and lecture-notes followed by in person discussion could be powerful. Like a reading group (aka english class) but for video.
  • he very things the US News list of top colleges prizes—low average class size, ratio of staff to students—mean that any institution that tries to create a cost-effective education will move down the list.
  • hese are where most students are, and their experience is what college education is mostly like.
  • a good chunk of the four thousand institutions you haven’t heard of provide an expensive but mediocre education
  • That’s because the fight over MOOCs is really about the story we tell ourselves about higher education: what it is, who it’s for, how it’s delivered, who delivers it.
  • OOCs expand the audience for education to people ill-served or completely shut out from the current system, in the same way phonographs expanded the audience for symphonies to people who couldn’t get to a concert hall, and PCs expanded the users of computing power to people who didn’t work in big companies. Those earlier inventions systems started out markedly inferior to the high-cost alternative: records were scratchy, PCs were crashy. But first they got better, then they got better than that, and finally, they got so good, for so cheap, that they changed people’s sense of what was possible
  • n the US, an undergraduate education used to be an option, one way to get into the middle class. Now it’s a hostage situation, required to avoid falling out of it.
  • Open systems are open. For people used to dealing with institutions that go out of their way to hide their flaws, this makes these systems look terrible at first. But anyone who has watched a piece of open source software improve, or remembers the Britannica people throwing tantrums about Wikipedia, has seen how blistering public criticism makes open systems better.
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MEDLINE, PubMed, and PMC (PubMed Central): How are they different? - 0 views

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  • Megan N-B on 21 Sep 16
     
    Found via Diigo tag search
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    Found via Diigo tag search
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Home of the Office of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention - health.gov - 2 views

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shared by Megan N-B on 21 Sep 16 - No Cached
  • Megan N-B on 21 Sep 16
     
    Health.gov has both guidelines and health information and communication resources
  • Megan N-B on 21 Sep 16
     
    Health.gov has both guidelines and health information and communication resources
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Malaria Lifecycle Part 1: Human Host | Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research - 50 views

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shared by Holly Barlaam on 03 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Holly Barlaam on 03 Dec 11
     
    EXCELLENT video on malaria lifecycle showing how the parasite infects a human host
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