Health Sciences

Technological advancements have significantly transformed medical laboratory practices, enhancing diagnostic accuracy, efficiency, and patient outcomes. This critical review explores the impact of innovations such as molecular diagnostics, automation, data management systems, and quality control measures on the field. Molecular diagnostics, including PCR and next-generation sequencing, have revolutionized disease diagnosis, while automation systems have streamlined laboratory workflows, reducing human error and turnaround times.

There has always been a dearth of appropriate methodological orientations within social sciences, including anthropology when it comes to conducting an in-depth and detailed research on women’s reproductive experiences. This is largely owing to the fact that, the disciplines that are suppose to research reproduction have started relying, rather inadvertently on the so called “Qualitative Methods” instead of more broad based discipline specific approaches.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting the world, presenting high rates of contamination, transmission and mortality. Elderly patients, especially oncologic may report more severe cases and worst prognostics within the infection context. The aim of the present study was to conduct a systematic review regarding the COVID-19 mortality rates in elderly with cancer diagnose.

A case report of a patient with cancer of the lower lip is presented. The reason for the treatment is an entity in the lower lip. It has been dating for several months and has grown significantly lately. Due to the complicated inflammatory process, he was treated in the clinic and after the same subsidence, he was admitted for surgical treatment. Surgery performed Resectio Partialis Labii Inferioris and plastics “a modo Bernard”. The case was presented to an oncology council, establishing that the patient was being monitored and he was given recommendations for a hygienic diet.

Objective: To investigate the incidence of thyroid cancer in anesthesiologists in the city of Manaus-AM, located in the Western Amazon, factors of illness and quality of life after treatment to which they were submitted. Methods: Observational, analytical, cross-sectional study, approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Fundação Centro de Oncologia do Amazonas. Data collection was performed using an instrument built by the research team and through the University of Washington's Quality of Life Assessment Questionnaire (UW-QoL).

Esta revisão de literatura apresenta como tema central o estudo da importância da comunicação como ferramenta no cuidado paliativo, que pode ser definido sucintamente como uma abordagem que objetiva melhorar a qualidade de vida de pacientes com doenças fora de possibilidades terapêuticas, utilizando como estratégia a comunicação. O estudo tem como objetivo geral analisar a importância da comunicação como ferramenta no cuidado a pacientes terminais.

This paper discusses concepts of thermodilution and ejection fraction associated with a typical application of the Swan-Ganz catheter, with the presentation of two models: one for the measurement of cardiac output and another for the measurement of ejection fraction. This work was developed to answer if the response to the impulse of the Swan-Ganz catheter depends on the speed of the blood flow in the right ventricle of the heart.

Objetivo: Avaliar a qualidade da atenção aos contatos domiciliares de pessoas com hanseníase atendidos na atenção primária em capital hiperendêmica do nordeste brasileiro. Método: estudo avaliativo, transversal e quantitativo realizado com 291 profissionais da Estratégia de Saúde da Família em São Luís-Maranhão/Brasil.

Estudos relacionados a governança estão na agenda de vários pesquisadores no Brasil e no exterior. Pesquisadores de diferentes disciplinas têm dedicado seu tempo a explorar as mais variadas formas de governança. Apesar do termo ter sido bastante discutido, isso não significa que confusões relacionadas ao conceito sejam inexistentes. Pelo contrário, governança como centro de discussões teóricas e empíricas tem resultadoem confusões quanto aos seus significados e definições.

The purpose of this review was to relate functional aspects of the immune system to cancer and verify if the use of resveratrol may present any adjuvant strategy. The immune system protects the human body against aggressive agents and presents a complex and integrative form of action involving different immune cells. In the neoplastic context, conventional treatment by chemotherapy and radiotherapy generates many side effects.