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Optimizing Contraceptive Counselling for Women with Migraine in a Primary Care ...

INTRODUCTION: Contraceptive counselling plays a crucial role in Family Planning within Primary Healthcare. While combined hormonal contraceptives (CHC) are widely used, it is essential to consider alternatives for women diagnosed with migraine. The primary objective of this project is to ensure the appropriate prescription of contraceptives for women diagnosed with migraine within a Portuguese family health uni...

Pyrostories: New Historical Insights into Portuguese Burning Landscapes

This paper examines Portuguese literary texts in which fire is explicitly included in the narrative. These texts include descriptions of various occurrences and uses of fire and their intertwined social and ecological effects. They shed light on the origins, actors, practices, and impacts of fire, and they reveal past perceptions of fire, namely the role fire played in social processes and in the making of land...

The literary arsonist

Fires in rural landscapes were imagined and represented in Portuguese literature from the early 20th century to the present. We analysed a set of 55 excerpts from 43 published texts produced by 29 writers. These excerpts, which we call pyrostories, convey a literary and historical perspective of how and why those fires occur and their impacts as socioecological drivers. Arsonists are found in a third of these p...

Livro de Resumos do Colóquio Internacional "Pessoas, Arroz e Mangais: Futuros d...

Pessoas, arrozais e mangais. Aprender em conjunto sobre alterações climáticas e...

Nas margens. Recortes de um estudo na interface entre mangais e arrozais na Gui...

Boas práticas na fase pré-analítica das hemoculturas: um estudo quasi-experimen...

Introdução: A hemocultura identifica inequivocamente o microrganismo responsável por uma infeção da corrente sanguínea. O seu valor diagnóstico depende da qualidade de cada momento da fase pré-analítica, sendo o cumprimento integral das boas práticas recomendadas um aspeto essencial. O enfermeiro deve implementar as recomendações mais atuais, suportadas pela evidência científica, para evitar a contaminação exte...

Uterine Niche: A Pathology to Consider

Uterine niche is a recess located in the anterior wall of the uterine isthmus, over the cesarean section scar. This condition is often asymptomatic, but it can be associated with symptoms such as abnormal uterine bleeding, pelvic pain and secondary infertility. Endovaginal ultrasound is the first-line diagnostic method. Treatment includes hormonal methods or surgery, and surgical treatment seems to be the most ...

Finding novel genes coding for eco-friendly surfactants from hypersaline Iberia...

Surfactants are tensioactive chemical compounds extensively used worldwide in a myriad of industrial sectors and in our daily lives, being present in numerous products including cosmetics, detergents, fabric softeners, toothpaste, among many others. Millions of tonnes of surfactants are thus manufactured every year. Most commercially available surfactants are non-renewable petroleum-based compounds that can hav...

Acute effects of static-stretching on the shoulder joint-position sense: A rand...

Introduction: The influence of static-stretching on variables like shoulder muscle strength has been addressed in different sports. However, its effect on the joint-position sense is poorly investigated. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the acute effects of static-stretching on the shoulder-joint position sense of overhead athletes. Methodology: A three-period block-randomized controlled crossover tr...