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Editorial
Compulsory Vaccination: The Limit between Public and Private
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. 2020;42(12):785-786
01-11-2020
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EditorialCompulsory Vaccination: The Limit between Public and Private
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. 2020;42(12):785-786
01-11-2020Views102The first vaccine was created by the British physician Edward Jenner in 1796 to prevent smallpox, demonstrating that inoculating material from a lesion could protect against a subsequent infection, thereby beginning a new era. A century later, new vaccines were developed with a relevant impact on the occurrence of a large number of infectious diseases, […]See more -
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What the Transcriptome of the Eutopic Endometrium from Women with Endometriosis tells us about the Disease Pathophysiology: A Brief Reflection
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. 2020;42(10):593-596
12-21-2020
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EditorialWhat the Transcriptome of the Eutopic Endometrium from Women with Endometriosis tells us about the Disease Pathophysiology: A Brief Reflection
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. 2020;42(10):593-596
12-21-2020Views143Endometriosis is characterized by the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterine cavity, usually represented by deep peritoneal, ovarian and/or infiltrative lesions, and, more rarely, in extrapelvic sites. The estimated prevalence is of 5 to 10%; of reproductive-age women,– despite the suggestion of an actual lower prevalence, of up to 1.8%;, in a recently published […]See more -
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The Role of Medicine in Protecting the Vulnerable: between Sexual Violence and Conscientious Objection
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. 2020;42(11):687-689
12-21-2020
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EditorialThe Role of Medicine in Protecting the Vulnerable: between Sexual Violence and Conscientious Objection
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. 2020;42(11):687-689
12-21-2020Views66What about Medicine? The reasons raised by the referral center in the southeastern region for not having an abortion were that they followed the Ministry of Health guidelines that allow humanized abortion up to twenty-two weeks of pregnancy and the fetus’ weight of up to five hundred grams. The law does not establish these limits. […]See more -
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Thinking about COVID-19 Scenario in Brazil: The Alternation between the Useful, the Uncertain and the Futile
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. 2020;42(9):519-521
10-23-2020
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EditorialThinking about COVID-19 Scenario in Brazil: The Alternation between the Useful, the Uncertain and the Futile
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. 2020;42(9):519-521
10-23-2020Views114The only pandemic comparable to the current event caused by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the disease called COVID-19, was that of the Spanish Flu in 1918. At that time, with slow and scarce intercontinental transport, diseases spreading infectious diseases were unlikely. Nowadays, on the contrary, the ability to move a highly infectious virus is enormous. […]See more -
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COVID-19 and Maternal Death in Brazil: An Invisible Tragedy
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. 2020;42(8):445-447
09-25-2020
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EditorialCOVID-19 and Maternal Death in Brazil: An Invisible Tragedy
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. 2020;42(8):445-447
09-25-2020Views137The infection with the new severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which is responsible for causing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), became a devastating threat to the health of the world population and was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020. Beginning in China at the end […]See more -
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Telemedicine in Obstetrics: New Era, New Atitudes
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. 2020;42(7):371-372
08-26-2020
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EditorialTelemedicine in Obstetrics: New Era, New Atitudes
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. 2020;42(7):371-372
08-26-2020Views131The COVID-19 outbreak started in December 2019 in China, and spread throughout the world as a big threat since then. On March 11th, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a pandemic. In Brazil, the first case was diagnosed on February 26th on a man that had recently returned to Brazil from Italy, and on […]See more -
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COVID-19 and Assisted Reproduction: A Point of View on the Brazilian Scenario
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. 2020;42(6):305-309
07-17-2020
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EditorialCOVID-19 and Assisted Reproduction: A Point of View on the Brazilian Scenario
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. 2020;42(6):305-309
07-17-2020Views151The Epidemic of COVID-19 in Brazil and Worldwide The world is experiencing a pandemic with no recent similar events, caused by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Since December 31, 2019, when the World Health Organization (WHO) was informed about the first cases of pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, China, the disease (COVID-19) spread […]See more -
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Hormone Therapy, Breast Cancer Risk and the Collaborative Group on Hormonal Factors in Breast Cancer Article
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. 2020;42(5):233-234
06-22-2020
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EditorialHormone Therapy, Breast Cancer Risk and the Collaborative Group on Hormonal Factors in Breast Cancer Article
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. 2020;42(5):233-234
06-22-2020Views155In August 2019, the safety of menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) returned to the scene again. Once more, its association with breast cancer risk came up, this time in an article published in the prestigious The Lancet (online in August and printed in September/2019). The subject is not new, and authors of the article are not […]See more