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A smoking prevention program delivered by medical students to secondary schools...

Background: Smoking is the largest preventable cause of mortality in Brazil. Education Against Tobacco (EAT) is a network of more than 3500 medical students and physicians across 14 countries who volunteer for school-based smoking prevention programs. EAT educates 50,000 adolescents per year in the classroom setting. A recent quasi-experimental study conducted in Germany showed that EAT had significant short-te...

Update on the approach to smoking in patients with respiratory diseases.

Smoking is the leading cause of respiratory disease (RD). The harmful effects of smoking on the respiratory system begin in utero and influence immune responses throughout childhood and adult life. In comparison with “healthy” smokers, smokers with RD have peculiarities that can impede smoking cessation, such as a higher level of nicotine dependence; nicotine withdrawal; higher levels of exhaled carbon monoxide...

EAT-Brazil award for tobacco control : a brief description of its first edition.

Smoking is a major global risk factor for preventable death and disability. EAT is an acronym for Education Against Tobacco, a multinational network of physicians and medical students that aims to improve tobacco control by means of school-based prevention targeted at adolescents through counseling, use of software and support materials. The first EAT-Brazil Award, launched in March 2018, was a competition desi...

Facial-aging mobile apps for smoking prevention in secondary schools in Brazil ...

Background: Most smokers start smoking during their early adolescence, often with the idea that smoking is glamorous. Interventions that harness the broad availability of mobile phones as well as adolescents' interest in their appearance may be a novel way to improve school-based prevention. A recent study conducted in Germany showed promising results. However, the transfer to other cultural contexts, effects o...

An old risk factor for COPD : rest in peace, 15%.

Five-year review of an international clinical research - training program.

The exponential increase in clinical research has profoundly changed medical sciences. Evidence that has accumulated in the past three decades from clinical trials has led to the proposal that clinical care should not be based solely on clinical expertise and patient values, and should integrate robust data from systematic research. As a consequence, clinical research has become more complex and methods have be...

Dor irruptiva oncológica : revisão da literatura e análise crítica do seu trata...

Breakthrough pain ou dor irruptiva oncológica (DIO) e uma exacerbação da dor em pacientes com dor basal oncológica estabilizada e que já recebem terapia com opioides. O objetivo do estudo foi identificar as melhores terapias farmacológicas para o correto tratamento da condição. Realizou-se pesquisa nas bases de dados MEDLINE e LILACS e foram selecionados artigos que abordavam o tratamento da dor e que comparava...