Clinical and mammographic profile of patients with breast cancer surgically treated.

Objective: to analyze the epidemiological, clinical and mammographic profile of women with breast cancer who were treated at the mastology clinic of the University Hospital of Santa Maria and who underwent breast surgery between January 2007 and December 2012.

Methods: this was a cross-sectional study, approved by the Ethics in Research Committee. A review of the patients' medical records was performed.

[Neurologic vigor of term newborns according to the type of delivery and obstetric maneuvers].

Purpose: to evaluate the effect of delivery type and usual obstetric procedures on the neurologic condition of a sample of consecutive term and healthy neonates, in the first 48 hours of life, using the Neurologic Adaptative Capacity Score (NACS) system.

Methods: cohort prospective study with 313 neonates, from a neonatology unit: Unidade de Neonatologia e Alojamento Conjunto. The variables analyzed were obstetric variables; clinical outcome: low neurologic vigor phase, evaluated by NACS, at 4, 24 and 48 hours of life.

[Hospital Federations in Europe].

The Hospital Federations are voluntary associations with non-lucrative ends which join Hospitals together and whose aim is to defend the interests of the Hospitals and their role in society. We study the situation about Hospital Federations in Spain, in the rest of the member States of the European Community and in Switzerland. There are Hospital Federation in West Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Switzerland, France and Belgium.