Mindfulness and mental health: the importance of a clinical intervention to prevent the effects of a traumatic event. A pilot study.

Numerous research studies show that mindfulness can mitigate the negative impact of trauma on mental health by reducing symptoms of anxiety, mediating the relationship between trauma exposure and mental health, and treating symptoms resulting from traumatic events. During the COVID-19 pandemic, which was considered a traumatic event, the wellbeing of adults and children was severely compromised. Although children seem less vulnerable to the physical effects of the virus, this does not seem to be true for the psychological effects.

Real-world implementation of North American and SIOP strategies for the treatment of Wilms tumor in Uruguay.

Wilms tumor has been selected as an index tumor by the WHO Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer with the aim to improve cure rates worldwide. Nevertheless, there is a scarcity of published data on outcomes beyond those of the major cooperative groups. Therefore, we conducted a retrospective analysis including all patients with Wilms tumor treated at our referral center in Uruguay between 1995 and 2020.

Long-Term Follow-up of Patients With Autonomous Thyroid Nodules Treated With Radioiodine.

Purpose: This article aims to describe the presentation of Plummer disease and its evolution after radioiodine treatment and determine factors that may influence treatment efficacy.

Patients And Methods: The sample included retrospective medical records of 165 adult patients with toxic nodular goiter treated with radioiodine between 1997 and 2017, followed up at a single thyroid center.

Results: The efficacy of treatment with a single dose of radioiodine was higher than 90%.

The bidirectional connection between family functioning and psychopathology: A network analysis in a large sample of adolescents with anorexia nervosa and their parents.

Family functioning is a risk and maintaining factor for anorexia nervosa (AN). This study aims to identify specific areas of family functioning according to adolescents and parental perspectives associated with eating and general psychological symptoms in people with AN. Four-hundred-forty-five adolescents with AN or atypical AN and their parents were enrolled.