Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has implacably stricken on the wellness of many countries and their health-care systems. The aim of the present study is to analyze the clinical characteristics of the initial wave of patients with…
Governments faced with the spread of COVID-19 pandemic are adopting strict and severe mitigation measures to influence people’s behaviors. Public perception of health risk plays a key role in the adoption of these actions, in people’s feelings, and…
Background & objectives: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has spread rapidly, causing unprecedented case fatalities across the world. The first laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19 and also the first death…
Estima-se que em 2050, no mundo inteiro, possam existir cerca de 10 milhões de mortes associadas à resistência aos antimicrobianos, superando as mortes atribuíveis a doença neoplásica.1 Em 2015, em Portugal, estimaram-se 24 021 casos de infeção por…
Background: The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) had become a global public health event. Lymphoma patients need to be distinguished from the general population because of their deficient immune status and intensive anti-tumor…
A pandemia da COVID-19, doença causada pelo novo coronavírus (SARS-CoV-2), tem sido amplamente noticiada nas manchetes de jornais e nas redes sociais, por ceifar inúmeras vidas diariamente. Causadora de caos e colapso do sistema de saúde de muitos…
We describe the first case report of a patient with COVID19 infection and metastatic breast cancer, while on systemic therapy with a CDK4/6 inhibitor. The patient had unique disease course, characterized with delayed symptomatology. The case…
The world is developing an app that alerts my smartphone when a COVID-19 (COrona VIrus Disease 19) confirmed case comes near me. However, regardless of what will be put to practical use first, the COVID-19 tracking system should satisfy the issues of…