Citizendium Press Release: Co-Founder to Launch Edited Version of Wikipedia

Citizendium Press Release: Co-Founder to Launch Edited Version of Wikipedia:
"MOUNT HERMON, California – October 17, 2006 – A major new encyclopedia project will soon attempt to unseat Wikipedia as the go-to destination for general information online. Like Wikipedia, the Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), or 'the Citizen’s Compendium,' will be a wiki project open to public collaboration. But, unlike Wikipedia, the community will be guided by expert editors, and contributors will be expected to use their own names, not anonymous pseudonyms.
The initiative is being spearheaded by Wikipedia’s co-founder, Larry Sanger, who, after leaving the well-known wiki project, became one of its more vocal critics. Sanger first announced the effort on September 15 at the Wizards of OS conference in Berlin. Sanger, who holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Ohio State University, has taken a leave of absence from the Digital Universe Foundation in order to lead the new project.
This week, the fledgling Citizendium Foundation will launch a six-week pilot project open to potential contributors by invitation (see http://www.citizendium.org/cfa.html).
'Not only enormous and free, but reliable'/.../"

Experts crack cancer 'gene codes'

BBC NEWS Health Experts crack cancer 'gene codes': "US scientists have cracked the entire genetic code of breast and colon cancers, offering new treatment hopes.
The genetic map shows that nearly 200 mutated genes, most previously unknown, help tumours emerge, grow and spread.
The discovery could also lead to better ways to diagnose cancer in its early, most treatable stages, and personalised treatments, Science reports.
The Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say the findings suggest cancer is more complex than experts had believed./.../ "

Anuário Estatístico de Porto Alegre

Anuário Estatístico de Porto Alegre: "O Anuário Estatístico é uma publicação da Prefeitura de Porto Alegre desde 1972. Tem como objetivo disponibilizar informações sobre o conjunto de atividades, obras e políticas desenvolvidas pela Administração Municipal ao longo dos últimos 10 anos; subsidiar a prestação de contas para a população; disponibilizar informações para instituições de pesquisa e ensino e dar suporte ao acompanhamento dos programas de governo no âmbito das realizações e avaliações. As informações estão dispostas por temas e subdivididas pelos órgãos municipais. Em cada tabela procura-se passar os dados relevantes da ação municipal. Ao longo desta última década, tanto a composição de dados como a estrutura do Anuário passou por alterações. As tabelas estão construídas a partir de informações de todos os órgãos municipais e pesquisas adicionais. A democratização da informação é fundamental para propiciar um ambiente social favorável à mobilização do capital social local e pactuar compromissos, estimulando o protagonismo do cidadão gestor no intuito de adequar programas e ações às peculiaridades locais, de forma a atender o plano estratégico do governo. Em 2005 salientamos três novas estruturas, quais sejam, a Secretaria Municipal da Juventude, a Secretaria Especial de Acessibilidade e Inclusão Social e o Gabinete de Turismo vinculado ao Gabinete do Prefeito. O Anuário Estatístico da PMPA atinge como fonte de consulta, além dos órgãos municipais, um grande número de entidades de ensino e pesquisa, sindicatos, entidades de classe e organismos públicos. É importante analisarmos o que estamos realizando e de que maneira para definir novos rumos da ação pública, potencializar o capital social e empoderar o capital humano, estimulando a cooperação de todos os atores locais em favor do projeto comum de promover o desenvolvimento local sustentável."

Health in All Policies: Prospects and potentials

European Observatory... - Health in All Policies: Prospects and potentials: "Health is largely determined by factors outside the health care domain. Efforts to integrate health considerations into societal policy-making with the aim to improve population health are being made almost everywhere, both at the Community level as well as at the national, regional and local levels.
This volume, published in the context of the Finnish Presidency of the European Union (EU), aims to highlight how and why the health dimension can and should be taken into account across all government sectors. Particular emphasis is placed on the unique mandate and obligation of the EU to protect health in all its policies. The topic is explored from the perspectives of available methods and different levels of policy-making, and examples are included from specific policy areas and health issues.
Contents include: Principles and challenges of Health in All Policies • Moving health higher up the European agenda • The promotion of heart health • Health in the world of work • Public health, food and agriculture policy in the European Union • Health in alcohol policies • Environment and health • Opportunities and challenges for including health components in the policy-making process • Towards closer intersectoral cooperation • Health impact assessment and Health in All Policies • The use of health impact assessment across Europe • Implementing and institutionalizing health impact assessment in Europe • A case study of the role of health impact assessment in implementing welfare strategy at local level • Towards a healthier future"

Facial expressions 'hereditary'

BBC NEWS Health Facial expressions 'hereditary': "The faces we pull when we are happy, sad or angry may be passed from generation to generation, according to researchers.
An Israeli team discovered facial expressions among family members bore striking similarities.
Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they said their findings suggested expressions may be hereditary.
This confirms an idea posed by Charles Darwin in 1872. "

JAMA -- Theme Issue on Chronic Diseases in Infants, Children, and Young Adults: Call for Papers, October 11, 2006, DeAngelis and Zylke 296 (14): 1780

JAMA -- Theme Issue on Chronic Diseases in Infants, Children, and Young Adults: Call for Papers, October 11, 2006, DeAngelis and Zylke 296 (14): 1780:
(Alert by procor-bounces@healthnet.org; Coleman, Catherine [CCOLEMAN5@PARTNERS.ORG])
"Pediatrics has traditionally been defined by acute illnesses, but with the aid of public health measures, modern medications, vaccines, and product safety advances, acute illnesses are more preventable and treatable than ever. The major challenge for health care professionals who care for infants, children, and young adults and for those who will treat them as they age into adulthood has become the management of chronic diseases.
Chronic illnesses in children include a wide range of maladies. Some, such as obesity, malnutrition, and cardiovascular disease, begin in childhood and can continue into adulthood. Others, such as congenital heart disease, are very different from adult-onset disease and require different management. Illnesses such as sickle cell disease and certain cancers that manifest in childhood have had gradual advances in treatment, and these diseases and others, such as neonatal prematurity, present new challenges as children live longer. While all children require general pediatric care (attention to immunization, proper nutrition, development, etc), some problems, such as cancer, congenital heart disease, and autism, are treated primarily by subspecialists. Others, such as cerebral palsy, require the teamwork of multiple disciplines./.../ "

England Health Profile 2006

What the Health Profile shows.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/13/95/22/04139522.pdf
A general improvement in health outcomes
The report shows recent improvements in a number of critical areas, eg: - declining mortality rates in targeted killers (cancers, all circulatory diseases and suicides) - increasing life expectancy, now at its highest ever level - reducing infant mortality, now at its lowest ever level.
However, in some areas particular challenges remain to achieve and sustain progress, eg: - rising rates of diabetes. Similarly for the determinants of
health: although we are making improvements in some important areas, eg: - occurrence of smoking - quality of housing stock - child poverty
there are a number of areas of concern, eg:
- increasing levels of obesity in adults and children
- high levels of teenage pregnancy.
And even where we are seeing improvements, health inequalities are often present.
The report illustrates various inequalities by:
- geography - within England, across the UK, across Europe
- gender
- ethnicity
- socio-economic group
- age.
In some cases, these are improving over time, eg: - reducing absolute gap between disadvantaged areas and the national average for cancer and circulatory disease mortality rates.
But in others, gaps are static or widening, eg: - inequality in infant mortality between routine and manual workers and the national average - inequality in life expectancy at birth between disadvantaged areas and the national average - socio-economic inequality in childhood obesity.

Hotel Rooms Shelter Stealthy Rhinoviruses -

ICAAC: Hotel Rooms Shelter Stealthy Rhinoviruses - CME Teaching Brief® - MedPage Today: "Caution patients that frequent hand-washing is the best defense against lurking rhinoviruses.

Inform interested patients that that this study implies that surfaces touched by a person with a rhinovirus-caused cold may harbor the pathogen for at least a day.

This study was published as an abstract and presented orally at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary as they have not yet been reviewed and published in a peer-reviewed publication"

Overeating 'like drug addiction'

BBC NEWS Health Overeating 'like drug addiction': "Scans on seven overweight people revealed the regions of the brain that controlled satiety were the same as those in drug addicts craving drugs.
The US team who carried out the research said the findings could potentially help to uncover new treatments for obesity.
The work, led by a New York scientist, is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "

Curso Promoção da Atividade Física na Comunidade

Enviado por: Timóteo Leandro de Araújo [timoteo@celafiscs.org.br]
A edição mais recente da Revista American Journal Preventive Medicine que teve como tema central - "A difusão e disseminação dos programas de recomendação da atividade física para a população", tem 2 artigos publicaçdos que serão discutidos na XXIX edição do Simpósio Internacional de Ciências do Esporte.
Os autores (veja link abaixo) são o Dr. Ross Brownson, Dr. Victor Matsudo e Dr. Michael Pratt fazem parte das sesões científicas como o "Curso Promoção da Atividade Física na Comunidade".
Para mais detalhes: http://www.celafiscs.org.br

Methodologic Challenges in Disseminating Evidence-Based Interventions to Promote Physical Activity - Pages 24-34 Borsika A. Rabin, Ross C. Brownson, Jon F. Kerner and Russell E. Glasgow

Dissemination of Physical Activity Evidence, Programs, Policies, and Surveillance in the International Public Health Arena - Pages 57-65 Adrian E. Bauman, David E. Nelson, Michael Pratt, Victor Matsudo and Stephanie Schoeppe

Volume 31, Issue 4, Supplement 1, - October 2006)Diffusion and Dissemination of Physical Activity Recommendations and Programs to World PopulationsEdited by David B. Buller, PhD
Se quiser ler os resumos:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/07493797

Early Alzheimer's signs detected

BBC NEWS Health Early Alzheimer's signs detected: "The system is able to analyse the extent of damage in areas of grey matter, where brain cells are tightly packed together.
The researchers say it could lead to earlier diagnosis of a disease that can be treated most effectively in its initial stages.
The University of California, Irvine, study appears in the journal Radiology. "