The article analyzes how the process of the professionalization of physicians in São Paulo related to healthcare policy under the administration of São Paulo governor Adhemar de Barros (1947-1951) during a period of broad change in the realm of health known by São Paulo physicians as the "socialization of medicine." Medical professionalism confronted certain ambivalences under this populist adm...

Trabalho realizado na Clínica Oftalmológica do Hospital das Clínicas da FMUSP São Paulo (SP) Brasil. 1 Pós-graduando do Departamento de Plástica Ocular do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo USP São Paulo (SP) Brasil. 2 Vitreous and Retina Clinical Fellow, University of California Irvine USA. 3 Chefe do Departamento de Glaucoma do Hospital das Clínicas da...

INTRODUCTION The need to control dengue transmission by means of insecticides has led to the development of resistance to most of the products used worldwide against mosquitoes. In the State of São Paulo, the Superintendência de Controle de Endemias (SUCEN) has annually monitored the susceptibility of Aedes aegypti to insecticides since 1996; since 1999, surveys were conducted in collaboration ...

Thomas M. Lewinsohn and Paulo Inácio Prado, Laboratório de Interações Insetos-Plantas, Depto de Zoologia, Univ. Estadual de Campinas, C.P. 6109, 13083-970 Campinas, Brazil ([email protected]). PIP also at: Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas Ambientais, Univ. Estadual de Campinas, C.P. 6166, 13083-867 Campinas, Brazil. / Pedro Jordano and Jordi Bascompte, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Apdo. 10...

A lone-star tick, Amblyomma americanum, was found as a pedunculated lesion on the back of the arm of an 84 year old man in Northern Ireland. This was acquired on a visit to the USA. The tick is found mainly in Texas and the Ozark mountains of Missouri, with scattered foci in other parts of southern USA. It is the vector of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. As worldwide travel becomes increasingly c...

1Laboratory of Antigen Targeting to Dendritic Cells, Department of Parasitology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, 05508-000 São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP/EPM), 04023-062 São Paulo, SP, Brazil 3Emory Vaccine Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University Sc...

Study carried out at Centro de Incentivo ao Aleitamento Materno (CIAMA), São Sebastião (SP), Brazil. [ Article based on the Master’s degree thesis submitted to the Graduate Course in Health Sciences, from the Instituto de Assistência Médica ao Servidor Público Estadual (IAMSPE) and approved on November 9, 2010.] 1 Centro de Incentivo ao Aleitamento Materno (CIAMA) – São Sebastião (SP), Brazil; ...

* Medical Resident Doctor on Otorrhinolaryngology Hospital Professor Edmundo Vasconcelos. ** Fellow Otologic and Skull Base Surgery Universidade de São Paulo. Otorrhinolaryngologist. *** Otorrhinolaryngologist, Hospital Professor Edmundo Vasconcelos. **** Medical Resident Doctor on Otorrhinolaryngology by UNIFESP/EPM. ***** Medical Resident Doctor on Otorrhinolaryngology. ****** Doctor’s Degree...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to compare and evaluate the in vitro biodegradation of nickel and chromium from space maintainers, made of three different companies, i.e (Dantaurum, Rocky mountain and Dtech) in artificial saliva. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study comprised of 30 space maintainers out of which 10 were fabricated using Dantaurum, 10 using Rocky mountain and 10 using Dtech band...