The impact of affective and cognitive empathy on stress in medical students.

Objective: To analyze the relationship between empathy and its domains (i.e., affective and cognitive) and stress in medical students.

Hydatid cysts in the mesocolon mimicking peritoneal pseudomyxoma in a post-appendectomy patient: A case report.

We aimed to present a case of two mesocolonic hydatid cysts that mimicked the presentation of peritoneal pseudomyxoma. Hydatidosis is a zoonotic parasitic infection caused by the cestode Echinococcus spp., whose larval stage affects various organs.

Empathy and psychological concerns among medical students in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: Being in direct contact with COVID-19 patients for long periods increases the risk of infection among frontline workers. The purpose of this study was to identify levels of empathy and psychological concern among medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: An online cross-sectional study was conducted among medical interns divided into two groups: those who worked on the frontline (n = 87) and those who did not (n = 63) during the COVID pandemic.

Impact of COVID-19 Infection Among Heart Transplant Recipients: A Southern Brazilian Experience.

Purpose: The coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) infection is associated with a high risk of complications and death among heart transplant recipients. However, most cohorts are from high-income countries, while data from Latin America are sparse.

Methods: This is a retrospective cohort of heart transplant recipients followed at a hospital in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, between March 1st 2020 and October 1st 2021.

Emotions and mood swings of pharmacy students in the context of the coronavirus disease of 2019 pandemic.

Introduction: The coronavirus disease of 2019 pandemic has changed university routines affecting student mental health. The aims of this study were to survey aspects related to mental health of pharmaceutical course students considering previous and current contexts.

Methods: The Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21), Impact of Event Scale-Revised, and Brunel Mood Scale were used.

Cannabinoids for nausea and vomiting related to chemotherapy: Overview of systematic reviews.

Nausea and vomiting are common and distressing adverse events of chemotherapy. This review focuses on the findings and quality of systematic reviews (SRs) of cannabinoids for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). Review of SRs, a systematic literature search, was conducted in several electronic databases and included SRs evaluating cannabinoids for CINV in cancer patients.

[Nutritional evaluation and prevalence of not transmissible chronic disease in elderly participating in an assistance program].

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the nutritional state and the prevalence of not transmissible chronic disease in elderly, who were participating in an assistance program of the Federal University of Alfenas (UNIFAL-MG), Alfenas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Socio-economical, anthropometric and biochemical variables, as well as systemic blood pressure were collected from 82 individuals between 60 and 87 years of age, 90,2 % of them female. According to the body mass index (BMI) 52,4% of the studied sample were overweight, 28,0% eutrophic and 19,5% underweight; 37,8% presented high body fat percentage (BF%).