During the first decade of brazilian military dictatorship, a publishing house from Curitiba - Grafipar -, owned by a muslim family, stopped publishing history books and atlas and started to invest in adult themed magazines. Grafipar became a renowned publisher of this genre, reaching the peak of 49 titles, 1.5 million copies per month and 1.5 thousand letters from readers per month. Among the contributors were...
INTRODUCTION: Overweight and obesity are serious health problems in Portugal, with physical, psychological and social consequences that affects individuals’ quality of life. In university students’ daily routine, sitting is a predominant behavior for many hours per day, increasing sedentary time among these individuals. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to analyze the association between the time spent ...
INTRODUCTION: Being overweight or obese is associated with several health problems. In Portugal, 59.1% of the adult population (> 20 years old) are overweight and 24.0% obese. Nutrition-related knowledge is one important factor that influence healthy eating patterns. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to analyze the association between nutrition-related knowledge and body mass index in a sample of Portug...
The technological transition to the digital version of the most circulating daily newspaper in the state of Paraná, Brazil, the Gazeta do Povo, resulted in more than 200 messages from rea-ders. The work sought to analyze some of the contents of these letters as narrative media produced by representatives of the public of the newspaper. The reader letter, classified as a modality of the opinionated genre, is als...
Este texto objetiva associar a prática do jornalismo hiperlocal à prática do jornalismo investigativo. Tem como premissa o entendimento de que o “hiperlocal” está sintonizado com o jornalismo cidadão e que este exige vínculo com a cidade e suas comunidades, o que leva tempo e custa caro, situação coincidente à do jornalismo investigativo. A reportagem investigativa hoje dispõe de aparato tecnológico digital que...
Tinea capitis is a dermatophyte infection of the scalp. The most frequent pathogens in the Hospital de Braga are Microsporum canis and Trichophyton mentagrophytes var. granulare. It is a common infection in children but rare in adults. A case of an adult woman with discoid lupus and a Trichophyton violaceum infection of scalp is reported.; A tinha do couro cabeludo é uma infecção causada por dermatófitos. Os fu...
Introduction: Allergic contact dermatitis to mercaptobenzothiazole and its derivatives has been increasingly recognized in industrialized countries because of their widespread use in polymerization of synthetic rubber. The authors describe two clinical cases with relevant occupational exposure.Case reports: A 46 year-old male patient, with an eight month pruritic dermatitis, limited to the wrists, refractory to...
Introduction: Psoriasis occurs in up to 8% of patients with Down syndrome and, although poorly characterized, appears to be correlated with immune imbalance in cells Th1 and biochemical changes of cyclic nucleotides.Case report: Female patient, 38 years old, with Down syndrome and psoriasis (initial PASI 30) since 18 years. Initially treated with cyclosporine and methotrexate and subsequently with etanercept, a...
Introduction: In recent years, the clinical experience with the use of intravenous immunoglobulin (IvIg) in Dermatology has increased. Despite limited information in literature, off-label use of IvIg has shown efficacy in the treatment of several refractary dermatosis to conventional treatments.Material and methods: We conducted a retrospective study of patients with dermatological pathology treated with IvIg b...
No cancro do pulmão, ainda não se obteve sobrevivência expressiva dos doentes que se apresentam em estádios não cirúrgicos. Os doentes com carcinoma de não pequenas células são tratados com platina e outros fármacos, para os quais se podem caracterizar actualmente marcadores preditivos de resposta terapêutica. Procedeu -se a uma revisão da literatura, tendo como alvo o papel dos genes ERCC1 e RRM1 na resposta à...