To the Editor: If we ever thought that history repeats itself like a fractal in spite of the fact that it happened thousands of years ago, then we would say that humanity remains the same, but in different scenarios. It seems that the attitude of the human beings is what persists through the epochs and ages, remaining timeless, perhaps hidden somewhere in the genome. Jason the famous mythologic...

Medical Genetics has long been a part of the undergraduate curriculum and is a rapidly increasing component of postgraduate training at all levels, in all specialities. Ian Young has provided a textbook which will delight both undergraduate and postgraduate readers. There are many textbooks which claim to cover essential medical genetic teaching, but many of these are too big, too detailed and ...

Medical Genetics has long been a part of the undergraduate curriculum and is a rapidly increasing component of postgraduate training at all levels, in all specialities. Ian Young has provided a textbook which will delight both undergraduate and postgraduate readers. There are many textbooks which claim to cover essential medical genetic teaching, but many of these are too big, too detailed and ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the investments to implement and operational costs of a type I Oral Health Care Team in the Family Health Care Strategy. METHODS This is an economic assessment study, for analyzing the investments and operational costs of an oral health care team in the city of Salvador, BA, Northeastern Brazil. The amount worth of investments for its implementation was obtained by summi...

Objective To determine and compare hospitalization costs of bacterial community-acquired pneumonia cases via different costing methods under the Brazilian Public Unified Health System perspective. Methods Cost-of-illness study based on primary data collected from a sample of 59 children aged between 28 days and 35 months and hospitalized due to bacterial pneumonia. Direct medical and non-medi...

Since the 1600s, the developments in the understanding of electrical phenomena have frequently altered the models and metaphors used by physicists to describe and explain their experiments. However, to this day, certain relics of past theories still drench the vocabulary of the subject, serving as distracting fog for future students. This article attempts, through historical illumination, to sh...