Introduction: The detection of early phases of neurodegenerative cognitive disorders is challenging. Differentiating these from non-neurodegenerative conditions is increasingly important, especially with the recent approval of disease-modifying treatments for early Alzheimer's in Europe (lceanemba and donanemba). This study aimed to identify the clinical profile of patients presenting for the first time at a ge...
Introduction: Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is one of the most effective strategies for caring for newborn and their parents, based on the philosophy of Family-Centered Care (FCC). Current literature points out that the safety of the newborn, the lack of resources in Neonatology services, such as protective devices during KMC, are barriers to the efficient implementation of the kangaroo method. Objective: To ident...
A 39-year-old male with a recent diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus infection, in the AIDS stage, and Burkitt lymphoma, both identified in the context of a constitutional syndrome with six months of evolution developed an acute condition with psychomotor slowing, disorientation, and gait imbalance, six weeks after initiating antiretroviral therapy and chemotherapy. Neurological examination revealed multi...
Within the pandemic scenario, political discourse, relying on resemblances amidst pandemic and war exceptionalities, is full of comparisons between the pandemic and wartime, and between the vaccine race and the arms race. Those, more than alarming, act as a tool to justify the sovereign’s exceptionality in the internal realm and intensify the hostility in the external. On the one hand, in the national sphere, t...
This review aimed to provide an overview of the characterization of indoor air quality (IAQ) during the sleeping period, based only on real-life conditions’ studies where, at least, one air pollutant was considered. Despite the consensual complexity of indoor air, when focusing on sleeping environments, the available scientific literature is still scarce and falls to provide a multipollutant’ characterization o...
A União Europeia é composta por regiões com diferentes níveis de desenvolvimento económico. O instrumento financeiro FEDER – Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional surgiu com o objetivo de corrigir alguns dos desequilíbrios regionais, nomeadamente através da atribuição de fundos ao tecido empresarial, destinados a investimentos produtivos e geradores de emprego, fomentando a coesão entre vários Estados Membr...
Ao longo dos tempos as empresas adquiriram uma importância crescente no âmbito da Política Regional Europeia, uma vez que a competitividade das regiões depende diretamente dos níveis de competitividade do seu tecido empresarial. O instrumento financeiro Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER) surgiu com o objetivo de corrigir alguns dos desequilíbrios regionais, nomeadamente através da atribuição de f...
The authors describe the case of a 64-year-old patient who presented to the Casualty Department with a two-month history of an irritating cough, malaise and unspecified weight loss. She had a history of Rheumatoid Arthritis in remission for several years. Her chest radiograph presented an oval nodule at the left hilum. The diagnosis was reached after a second bronchofi broscopy, when the histological exam of th...