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A smoking prevention program delivered by medical students to secondary schools...
Lisboa, Oscar Campos; Souza, Breno Bernardes; Xavier, Luiz Eduardo de Freitas; Almeida, Matheus Rocha; Corrêa, Paulo César Rodrigues PintoBackground: 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...
Treatment of keloids : a literature review.
Corrêa, Pedro Martins; Passos, Camila Eugênia Fonseca; Souza, Eduardo Mesquita de; Batista, Guilherme Augusto Sousa; Jacintho, Jessica de OliveiraIntroduction: Keloids are characterized by an abnormal response to dermal trauma, resulting in fibroblast proliferation, excessive collagen production, and impairment of adjacent healthy tissue. The diagnosis is clinical, and many conservative and surgical methods can be used as treatments. However, data on the efficacy of these treatments are limited, and there is no consensus regarding the best treatment opti...
EAT-Brazil award for tobacco control : a brief description of its first edition.
Corrêa, Paulo César Rodrigues Pinto; Pereira, Rayanna Mara de Oliveira Santos; Temporão, José Gomes; Cavalcante, Tânia Maria; Lisboa, Oscar CamposSmoking 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...