Rodolfo dos Santos Mascarenhas: a pioneer of health history.

[Public health in São Paulo: history and characters].

Escrever sobre o texto “História da saúde pública no Estado de São Paulo”, de Rodolfo dos Santos Mascarenhas, é resgatar para a atualidade não apenas o texto e o autor (o que já seria uma imensa tarefa), mas também a Instituição e a Revista que há duas décadas publicaram este artigo. São elementos que se cruzam e oferecem a oportunidade de uma análise na qual a biografia, a história e a estrutu...

Towards Improving Hospital Managers’ Performance in Iran: History of a Pioneer Program Among EMRO Countries

[Classical public health thinking in São Paulo during the era of health centers and health education].

The article reviews the ideas and concepts of health service organization that followed the introduction of the Health Center model by the Health Service reform in 1925. It discusses the thinking of Geraldo de Paula Souza, Rodolfo Mascarenhas and Reinaldo Ramos, distinguished representatives of "classical thought" of public health in São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil.

Association of Dowling-Degos disease and multiple seborrheick-eratosis in a “Christmas tree pattern”

  Dowling-Degos disease is a rare sporadic or autosomal dominant pigmentary entity, in which clusters of papules and reticulate macules slowly develop with predominance in flexural regions. This entity is due to mutations in the keratin 5 gene, and is related with other cutaneous disorders. We report the sporadic form of Dowling-Degos disease in an elderly man with multiple seborrheickeratosis ...

A 30-year-old healthy man with recent onset erythromelalgia: A case report

A 30-year-old healthy man came to our hospital with complaints of red, hot, and painful upper extremities which spontaneously appeared. These manifestations worsened with exercises and heat, but were alleviated by rest and cooling of the hands. There were 2 similar previous episodes of short duration. The patient was a healthy, non-alcoholic, non-smoker with no history of using medicine. ...