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Revisiones bibliográficas. Documentación científica en Ortopedia y Traumatología, medicina deportiva, artroscopia, artroplastia y de todas las patologías del sistema Músculo-Esquelético
sábado, 4 de diciembre de 2010
Cuando cambio climático y malaria van de la mano
Nueva técnica para acelerar el desarrollo de fármacos
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Los bosques ibéricos miran al norte de Europa
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Los trastornos mentales aumentan un 7% en un año
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ART BASEL
ART BASEL
At Art Basel Miami Beach, Less Heat
By KATE TAYLOR
MIAMI BEACH – The crowds that used to form more than an hour before the opening of the “First Choice” portion of Art Basel Miami Beach—the four-hour window between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. when only elite collectors can enter and browse the fair—are gone. Gone too are the speculators who before the financial crisis used to race down the aisles as soon as the doors opened in order to snag a work that they thought they could flip at a profit a few months later. Indeed, on Wednesday during “First Choice” things seemed sedate compared to the years before 2008. Some described the giant convention hall as “empty.”
That doesn’t mean that things didn’t sell. The extreme caution and modesty of 2008 and 2009, the hesitation to be seen spending, is gone, too. Pay in the financial world is roaring back to pre-crisis levels, and art is increasingly seen as a safe place to park money, like gold. Read more…
Art Basel Miami, Day 1: The Calm Before the Storm
By KATE TAYLOR
Art Basel Miami is a multiday sprint of buying, looking, socializing, and crucial networking for people not only in the art world but in other industries catering to the very rich, from private banking to private planes. The starting gun goes off at 11 on Wednesday morning, when V.I.P.’s get to enter the fair. But for those who arrived early, Tuesday offered an opportunity for warm-up.
The day started at 10 a.m., with a ceremonial groundbreaking for the Miami Art Museum’s new $200 million building on the bay designed by Herzog & de Meuron. Construction had been held up for several years by financing and other issues, but in May, Miami-Dade County released $100 million in bond proceeds to allow the project to go forward. The museum, which has to raise $100 million itself, has so far raised $45 million in pledges, the museum’s chairman, Aaron Podhurst, told The Miami Herald.
The museum is expected to be completed by the end of 2012.
As the day heated up (literally – this being Miami), both local arts patrons and collectors fresh off an 8 a.m. flight from LaGuardia headed south to Coral Gables, where Sotheby’s and the dealer Paul Kasmin hosted a luncheon to celebrate an exhibition of the sculpture of Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne at the Fairchild Botanic Garden. Read more…
An Art Project of the Coolest Kind
By KAREN ROSENBERG
What’s that solar-powered freezer doing outside the Brooklyn Museum? Refrigerating a chunk of Alaskan ice.
It’s not an attempt to cut the air-conditioning bill. The freezer and its contents are a sculpture by the Bahamian artist Tavares Strachan. Titled “The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want (Arctic Ice Project),” it went on view yesterday at the museum’s south entrance.
Solar power notwithstanding, the project has a large carbon footprint. In 2005 Mr. Strachan, working with a team, extracted the two-and-a-half-ton block of ice from an Alaskan river. The ice was then refrigerated and shipped to Nassau, in the Bahamas (Mr. Strachan’s birthplace), where it was exhibited in a solar-powered glass freezer at the height of summer. Later, it toured to Miami’s Wynwood District during Art Basel Miami Beach. Just last month, it could be seen in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, at the recently opened secondary space of Mr. Strachan’s dealer Joe Amrhein (a former boiler room, as it happens). Read more…
Now Online | T Winter Travel 2010
T’s winter travel edition begins with a fairy tale, by way of a cover shoot in the snowy Swedish countryside. Then it’s off to another kind of winter wonderland: the high-rolling peaks of Courchevel (where’s there as much “ice” on the skiers as on the slopes). Ready for a thaw? There’s serious surfing on Sumba Island, home to some of the world’s best breaks and the ultimate eco-resort. For more beach time, we drop in on St. Lucia before heading to Rio, where the art scene is heating up. It’s a season of pilgrimages, too: In the temples of Tamil Nadu, India, Guy Trebay partakes in bathing rituals that give a whole new meaning to taking the waters. In Taipei, the designer Jason Wu goes home looking for inspiration for his next collection. And in Los Angeles, Frank Bruni eats his way through what has become America’s great food city. Wash it all down with the artisanal cocktails of Sydney, then sleep it off at the latest slumber spas. Plus: check into thehottest new hotels, from Buenos Aires to Bangkok.
Cleopatra’s Guide to Good Governance
Yentus & Booher
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Cleopatra’s Guide to Good Governance
By STACY SCHIFF
The leadership advice Washington needs, from the life and experiences of Cleopatra VII.
Alzheimer's Disease
Zen and the Art of Coping With Alzheimer's
In Brief:
THE NUMBER OF ALZHEIMER'S PATIENTS IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE DRAMATICALLY IN COMING YEARS, STRAINING THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.
SCIENTISTS HAVE NOT DISCOVERED THE CAUSE NOR DEVISED EFFECTIVE TREATMENTS. EVEN DIAGNOSIS IS DIFFICULT.
IN THE ABSENCE OF THERAPIES, ATTENTION HAS TURNED TO TEACHING THE SKILLS NECESSARY TO COPE WITH DEMENTED PATIENTS.
INCREASINGLY CAREGIVERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VALIDATE THE FEELINGS AND PERCEPTIONS OF THE PERSON WITH ALZHEIMER'S.
During the YouTube forum with the Democratic presidential candidates in July, the first question about health care came from two middle-age brothers in Iowa, who faced the camera with their elderly mother. Not everybody with Alzheimer’s disease has two loving sons to take care of them, they said, adding that a boom in dementia is expected in the next few decades.
“What are you prepared to do to fight this disease now?” they asked.
The politicians mouthed generalities about health care, larded with poignant anecdotes. None of them answered the question about Alzheimer’s.
Science hasn’t done much better. There is no cure for Alzheimer’s and no way to prevent it. Scientists haven’t even stopped arguing about whether the gunk that builds up in the Alzheimer’s brain is a cause or an effect of the disease. Alzheimer’s is roaring down — a train wreck to come — on societies all over the world.
People in this country spend more than a $1 billion a year on prescription drugs marketed to treat it, but for most patients the pills have only marginal effects, if any, on symptoms and do nothing to stop the underlying disease process that eats away at the brain. Pressed for answers, most researchers say no breakthrough is around the corner, and it could easily be a decade or more before anything comes along that makes a real difference for patients.
Meanwhile, the numbers are staggering: 4.5 million people in the United States have Alzheimer’s, 1 in 10 over 65 and nearly half of those over 85. Taking care of them costs $100 billion a year, and the number of patients is expected to reach 11 million to 16 million by 2050. Experts say the disease will swamp the health system.
It’s already swamping millions of families, who suffer the anguish of seeing a loved one’s mind and personality disintegrate, and who struggle with caregiving and try to postpone the wrenching decision about whether they can keep the patient at home as helplessness increases, incontinence sets in and things are only going to get worse.
Drug companies are placing big bets on Alzheimer’s. Wyeth, for instance, has 23 separate projects aimed at developing new treatments. Hundreds of theories are under study at other companies large and small. Why not? People with Alzheimer’s and their families are so desperate that they will buy any drug that offers even a shred of hope, and many will keep using the drug even if the symptoms don’t get better, because they can easily be convinced that the patient would be even worse off without it.
It is telling, maybe a tacit admission of defeat, that a caregiving industry has sprung up around Alzheimer’s. Books, conferences and Web sites abound — how to deal with the anger, the wandering, the sleeping all day and staying up all night, the person who asks the same question 15 times in 15 minutes, wants to wear the same blouse every day and no longer recognizes her own children or knows what a toilet is for.
The advice is painfully and ironically reminiscent of the 1960s and ’70s, the literal and figurative high point for many of the people who are now coping with demented parents. The theme is, essentially, go with the flow. People with Alzheimer’s aren’t being stubborn or nasty on purpose; they can’t help it. Arguing and correcting will not only not help, but they will ratchet up the hostility level and make things worse. The person with dementia has been transported into a strange, confusing new world and the best other people can do is to try to imagine the view from there and get with the program.
If a patient asks for her mother, for instance, instead of pointing out that her mother has been dead for 40 years, it is better to say something like, “I wish your mother were here, too,” and then maybe redirect the conversation to something else, like what’s for lunch.
If Dad wants to polish off the duck sauce in a Chinese restaurant like it’s a bowl of soup, why not? If Grandma wants to help out by washing the dishes but makes a mess of it, leave her to it and just rewash them later when she’s not looking. Pull out old family pictures to give the patient something to talk about. Learn the art of fragmented, irrational conversation and follow the patient’s lead instead of trying to control the dialogue.
Basically, just tango on. And hope somebody will do the same for you when your time comes. Unless the big breakthrough happens first.
Publish date: 8/30/07
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