Despite declines in globalmortality rates in infants and children under five years of age in recent decades, neonatalmortality has remained relatively static. Consequently, approximately twothirds of deaths in infants and over one-third of deaths in under-five-year-olds now occur in the first 28 days of life (i.e., the neonatal period). There are an estimated four million neonatal deaths per ye...

Both the maternal and fetal somatotrophic axes are closely linked to fetal substrate supply. Nutritional insults at critical stages of fetal development may lead to permanent reprogramming of the relationships between these factors. The consequences of reprogramming during fetal life may be harmful to metabolic, endocrine and cardiovascular homoeostatic mechanisms in postnatal life. The exact m...

What does social isolation mean for members of religious groups who constitute themselves as a family and value meetings, physical contact bodily experience? strategies do they follow to face the loneliness that entails? Since middle March 2020, when World Health Organization (WHO) declared risk pandemic number contagions SARS-Cov-2 in Brazil was beginning grow, most communities Afro-Brazilian ...

coexistence of a viable fetus with a hydatidiform mole is a rare condition and the diagnosis is very important because of the risk of developing severe complications in pregnancy.the management of these pregnancies is optional, although accurate and great care is required to find early signs of maternal or fetal complications. hereby we report a case of dizygotic twin pregnancy with a complete ...

The past 2 decades have yielded profound advances in the fields of prenatal diagnosis and fetal intervention. Although fetal interventions are driven by a beneficence-based motivation to improve fetal and neonatal outcomes, advancement in fetal therapies raises ethical issues surrounding maternal autonomy and decision-making, concepts of innovation versus research, and organizational aspects wi...

Teaching collaborative practices and interprofessional communication has become a central interest in health care education. Since 2018, order to pursue this objective, seminars are being organised Brussels at faculties. These bring together pre-graduate students from eight disciplines: doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, osteopaths, social workers, pharmacists, occupational therapists public he...

Heart disease in pregnancy is the leading indirect cause of maternal mortality.1 Coarctation aorta a rare condition found pregnant mothers and they are at extremely high risk life-threatening or fetal events any given time. Management these should be done specialized maternity hospitals, under care multidisciplinary team. Anesthetists involved various stages management mothers, especially durin...