[Education and literacy program on prevention and care of pediatric patients with respiratory diseases and asthma].

Unlabelled: Respiratory diseases, including bronchial asthma in children and adolescents, constitute a global public health problem. Educational strategies are an important tool for their control.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of a health literacy program for the care and self-management of respiratory diseases and bronchial asthma after five years of implementation.

New promising Euphorbiaceae extracts with activity in human lymphocytes from primary cell cultures.

Context: Euphorbiaceae plants exhibit anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory properties.

Methods: We evaluated the activity of 14 extracts from seven Euphorbiaceae plants on primary immune cell cultures from healthy individuals. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were exposed to the extracts w/o phytohaemagglutinin A or cycloheximide as agents that induce proliferation or apoptosis in PBMC, respectively.