This interview discusses the pathways that brought childbirth into Brazilian public policies. Maria do Carmo Leal and Marcos Dias are active participants in this journey, in academics as well as activism. In the interview, the participants reflect on the challenges to achieving change in the Brazilian health care model and highlight the importance of women's participation and their movements in reaching this goal.
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Curr Stem Cell Res Ther
January 2025
University Radiology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Department of Interventional Radiology New Jersey United States.
Vascular stents and stem cells have been used in high-acuity cases for many decades, particularly in cardiology. Providing the physician with another avenue of treatment, they have had a reasonable amount of success. However, there has been very little research conducted on seeding vascular stents with stem cells when treating intracranial aneurysms.
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December 2024
ExCE Research Group, Department of Physical Education, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil
Introduction: Approximately two-thirds of Brazilian older adults have hypertension. Aerobic training is the first-line non-pharmacological therapy for hypertension. However, the effects of different aerobic training approaches on ambulatory blood pressure in older adults are uncertain.
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January 2025
University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the popularization of information and communication technology in medical education. This study aimed to compare the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) and the virtual objective structured clinical examination (vOSCE), based on expert opinion, as tools for assessing the competencies needed under medical curriculum guidelines in Brazil.
Methods: In this multicenter study, the suitability levels of the OSCE and vOSCE for assessing the competencies needed under the Brazilian National Curriculum Guidelines (DCNs) were compared.
Occup Ther Health Care
January 2025
Postgraduate Program in Neuroscience, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
This study aimed to identify the functional priorities of parents/guardians of Brazilian children and adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP) and to examine possible variations in priorities concerning different age groups and functional classifications. This cross-sectional study included 171 children with CP (mean age: 7.68 ± 3.
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January 2025
Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
Background And Aims: Current heart failure (HF) risk stratification strategies require comprehensive clinical evaluation. In this study, artificial intelligence (AI) applied to electrocardiogram (ECG) images was examined as a strategy to predict HF risk.
Methods: Across multinational cohorts in the Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS), UK Biobank (UKB), and Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil), individuals without baseline HF were followed for the first HF hospitalization.
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