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Coqueluche -- ainda um desafio

Globally, whooping cough (pertussis) is still an important cause of death in infancy and continues to be a public health concern even in countries with high vaccination coverage. In 2008, over 80% of all infants worldwide received three doses of pertussis vaccines.1 Despite this, 15 million pertussis cases occurred worldwide, 95% of them in developing countries, and about 200,000 children died ...

Prurido: ainda um desafio

Prurido é um sintoma que pode estar associado a uma gama ampla de patologias, sejam elas cutâneas, sistêmicas ou mesmo sem causa definida . Conforme sua intensidade e evolução pode comprometer de forma significativa a qualidade de vida dos pacientes. Novas abordagens terapêuticas estão sendo descritas para o controle do prurido, onde a liberação da histamina não é o fator principal. Assim, base...

The CUIDADO Project

The CUIDADO Project (Content-based Unified Interfaces and Descriptors for Audio/music Databases available Online) aims at developing a new chain of applications through the use of audio/music content descriptors, in the spirit of the MPEG-7 standard. The project includes the design of appropriate description structures, the development of extractors for deriving high-level information from audi...

Smoking control: challenges and achievements

Smoking is the most preventable and controllable health risk. Therefore, all health care professionals should give their utmost attention to and be more focused on the problem of smoking. Tobacco is a highly profitable product, because of its large-scale production and great number of consumers. Smoking control policies and treatment resources for smoking cessation have advanced in recent years...