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The study provides results from a double-blind clinical trial of 25 patients with diabetic or venous chronic ulcers. To evaluate the assessing cost of outpatient treatment with two technologies: 2% carboxymethylcellulose hydrogel or human recombinant Epidermal Growth Factor carbogel. Patients were randomly allocated to two ulcer treatment groups, human recombinant Epidermal Growth Factor treated (intervention group = 14), and 2% carboxymethylcellulose hydrogel (control group = 11); both treated during 90 days.

Biosafety is a generalconcern in health service, including dentistry, once the infection control, mainly the cross infection, is extremely important. Nowadays, the world is facing the new coronavirus pandemic and following the standards and measures that protect professionals, patients and the population is essential. This study aimed to evaluate the knowledge of dental students of a public Brazilian university about biosafety and disinfection processes to control the cross contamination and how they deal with it, especially during COVID-19 crisis.

Objetivo: Conhecer a percepção dos usuários de um centro de práticas integrativas e complementares acerca dos benefícios da automassagem. Materiais e métodos: Trata-se de uma pesquisa exploratório-descritiva com abordagem qualitativa, realizada em um Centro de Práticas Integrativas e Complementares, com 10 usuários praticantes da automassagem. Os dados foram analisados através da técnica de Bardin, respeitando as etapas de pré-análise, exploração do material, tratamento dos resultados e interpretação.

Rural development, in the perspective of socio-environmental sustainability, aims to stimulate the processes of territorial planning through attributes, such as the natural environment, the economy and the social characteristics. From this perspective, this article aims to analyse the indicators of socio-economic and environmental sustainability of 1034 rural lots in settlements of agrarian reform by the federal government, in Minas Gerais State, Brazil.

Introduction: Malignant breast cancer is an important public health problem, as it is a disease of high incidence and mortality related to multiple risk factors in developing countries, a classification in which Brazil is included. In this sense, the phenomenon of being a woman becomes more complex to be understood, especially after mastectomy, a time when women encounter difficulties of biopsychosocial nature to face the activities of daily living.

Aims: Adding information on the place of training, displacement and transfer of doctors, variables which add complexity to the territorial concentration of professionals, is at the core of the present study, which aims to trace the distribution of doctors in Brazilian territory in relation to the institution that trains a given loco-region, in order to obtain the effective contribution, or not, of this training institution for the distribution of medical professionals in order to meet the needs of the Brazilian population.

Objetivo: identificar a produção científica acerca das tecnologias construídas e/ou utilizadas para saúde sexual de mulheres transexuais. Método: revisão integrativa da literatura com delimitação atemporal, realizada de setembro a novembro de 2017, nas bases de dados LILACS, MEDLINE, CINAHL, CUIDEN, SCOPUS, BDENF e na biblioteca virtual SciELO. Foram incluídos artigos científicos, originais, redigidos nos idiomas inglês, português ou espanhol e que responderam a questão norteadora do estudo.

According to the Influenza Epidemiological Surveillance Information System, by the month of August, more than 2,700 pregnant women had been infected and almost 200 died from COVID-19, in addition, almost 1,000 puerperal women tested positive, with more than 100 deaths registered in the country.

Aims: Qualitatively assessement communication skills and medical ethical knowledge acquired during graduation, through the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), of clerkship students of the Medical School of São José do Rio Preto - SP/BR. Methods: Research with cross-sectional observational design, qualitative and quantitative methodologies, consisting of taking an OSCE and preceded by a questionnaire, applied to clerkship students, dealing with the content of the Code of Medical Student Ethics (CMSE).

Objective: Describe the scientific evidence on Kennedy's ulcer as described in the literature, identifying nursing care for patients with Kennedy's ulcer. Method: Integrative review segmented in six stages. The search took place between 2010-2019 on MEDLINE, LILACS, SciVerse Scopus, ScienceDirect, CINAHL and PUBMED databases, with export to the Rayyan for Systematic Reviews program. Evidence levels were assessed according to Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.Results: 133 publications were identified and 6 remained, with level of evidence IV, V and VI.