Factors associated to depression and anxiety in medical students: a multicenter study.

Background: To evaluate personal and institutional factors related to depression and anxiety prevalence of students from 22 Brazilian medical schools.

Methods: The authors performed a multicenter study (August 2011 to August 2012), examining personal factors (age, sex, housing, tuition scholarship) and institutional factors (year of the medical training, school legal status, location and support service) in association with scores of Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI).

Results: Of 1,650 randomly selected students, 1,350 (81.

Profile of patients treated with malariotherapy in a psychiatric hospital in Porto Alegre, Brazil: a historical note.

Introduction: Malariotherapy was a treatment to cure neurosyphilis developed in 1917 by Wagner-Jauregg, by inoculating blood infected with malaria in patients with neurosyphilis. The patient had febrile episodes that often cured him of the syphilitic infection. This treatment won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1927 and it was introduced in Hospital Psiquiátrico São Pedro (HPSP) in 1929.

Clinical Bioethics Committees: a Brazilian experience.

Since its beginning, Bioethics has been related to medical decision making. In health settings, difficult dilemmas, critical situations, controversial decisions are problems that clinical Bioethics reflects on. Institutional Ethics Committees is a general and ambiguous denomination to many different activities.