Cork-based adsorbents have been gathering interest from the research community since the 1990s. A first review was published on this topic in 2012. Still, in the last decade, novel activated carbons and biochars, in multiple applications, have been produced using cork as a raw material. This review presents these novel insights into the properties of cork, in its various forms, and how they relate to adsorption...
Introduction: Cognitive impairment and retinal atrophy have been proposed as two potential markers of neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis (MS). We aimed at assessing the relation between peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (pRNFL) and macular ganglion cell layer (mGCL) atrophy and cognitive performance in early MS. Methods: This is a multicenter cross-sectional study on patients with early MS (clinicall...
BackgroundThe prospect of chronic HIV patients obtaining their ART medication in community settings has considerable interest for health authorities. In Portugal, the Health Ministry promoted a pilot study randomizing the dispensing of ART therapy to hospital pharmacies and to community pharmacies in order to assess the impact of a transfer of dispensing from the current hospital setting. This study “piggy back...
RESUMO - Na radiologia de intervenção, e concretamente em ortopedia, os raios X são intensamente utilizados permitindo a visualização de diversas técnicas de intervenção cirúrgica. Do ponto de vista médico as vantagens dessa prática são enormes, contudo, os profissionais de saúde envolvidos são susceptíveis de estarem expostos a valores de dose de radiação que significam a sua classificação como trabalhadores e...