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    Nurses on the Medical Front

    de Echo Heron ...
    As the healthcare debate rages on with the growth of the HMO industry, nurses quietly continue to provide the day-to-day grit and deeply-felt passion that hold the healing profession together. Within these remarkable women and men are poignant, outrageous stories drawn from the edge of life. But fear of career backlash and reprisals have made them reluctant to talk to outsiders about their ... Leer más

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  • One Billion Hungry

    Can We Feed the World?

    de Gordon Conway ...
    Hunger is a daily reality for a billion people. More than six decades after the technological discoveries that led to the Green Revolution aimed at ending world hunger, regular food shortages, malnutrition, and poverty still plague vast swaths of the world. And with increasing food prices, climate change, resource inequality, and an ever-increasing global population, the future holds further ... Leer más

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  • Coping with Water Scarcity: An Action Framework for Agriculture and Food Security

    de FAOoftheUN ...
    This report aims to provide a conceptual framework to address food security under conditions of water scarcity in agriculture. It has been prepared by a team of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the framework of the project "Coping with water scarcity: the role of agriculture", and has been discussed at an Expert Consultation meeting organized in FAO, Rome in ... Leer más

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  • When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

    Tales from Neurosurgery

    "Dramatic, moving, and utterly fascinating." —New York Times Book ReviewWith poignant insight and humor, When the Air Hits Your Brain chronicles one man’s evolution from naïve and ambitious young intern to world-class neurosurgeon. In electrifying detail, Frank Vertosick Jr. describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young ... Leer más

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  • Status of the World's Soil Resources. Technical Summary

    de FAOoftheUN ...
    This document presents a summary of the first Status of the World's Soil Resources report, the goal of which is to make clear the essential connections between human well-being and the soil. The report provides a benchmark against which our collective progress to conserve this essential resource can be measured. The report synthesizes the work of some 200 soil scientists from 60 countries. It ... Leer más

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  • World Livestock: Transforming the Livestock Sector through the Sustainable Development Goals

    de FAOoftheUN ...
    The publication is intended to serve as a reference framework for Member States as they move forward to realize livestock's potentially major contribution to the Agenda 2030.For decades, the livestock debate has focused on how to increase production in a sustainable manner. However, the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has shifted the emphasis from fostering sustainable production per se ... Leer más

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  • Sustainable Land Management: Challenges, Opportunities, And Trade-Offs

    de World Bank ...
    Land is the integrating component of all livelihoods depending on farm, forest, rangeland, or water (rivers, lakes, coastal marine) habitats. Due to varying political, social, and economic factors, the heavy use of natural resources to supply a rapidly growing global population and economy has resulted in the unintended mismanagement and degradation of land and ecosystems. Sustainable Land ... Leer más

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  • Between Expectations

    Lessons from a Pediatric Residency

    de Meghan Weir ...
    When Dr. Meghan Weir first dons her scrubs and steps onto the floor of Children’s Hospital Boston as a newly minted resident, her head is packed with medical-school-textbook learning. She knows the ins and outs of the human body, has memorized the correct way to perform hundreds of complicated procedures, and can recite the symptoms of any number of diseases by rote. But none of that has truly ... Leer más

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  • Accounting for Livestock Water Productivity: How and Why?

    de FAOoftheUN ...
    The assessment of water productivity in livestock supply chains has a critical role to play in developing productive and sustainable food production systems worldwide. In particular, the evaluation of water productivity improvement options is key to addressing growing food demand and the projected impacts of climate change under conditions where the availability of land and water resources is ... Leer más

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  • Living with Multiple Sclerosis (Ms) for over 50 Years

    A Diagnosis After 25 Years

    Living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for over 50 Years: A Diagnosis after 25 Years, is an autobiography of Laurice B. Karrell. This book, which is divided into decades, delineates her multiple sclerosis (MS) exacerbations beginning with her first major symptom in 1958. It then goes on to describe her futile search over many years for a diagnosis. It finally culminates with a diagnosis twenty-five ... Leer más

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