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Validation of the Bipolar Recovery Questionnaire for the Portuguese Population: Recovery and Predict...

Introduction: The paradigm in mental health care is progressively moving towards a recovery-focused perspective. Thus, th...

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Polymyalgia Rheumatica After COVID-19 Vaccination: Data from the EudraVigilance Database...

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Recently, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic led to the rapid development of vaccines. Potential side effects h...

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Levodopa-Carbidopa: An Unusual Case of Voluntary Drug Intoxication...

Poucos são os casos conhecidos de intoxicação medicamentosa voluntária com levodopa-carbidopa de aç&ati...

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Hamman’s Sign: Rediscovering Cardiac Auscultation Through a Pneumomediastinum...

Pneumomediastinum and pericarditis are distinct etiologies of chest pain with unique mechanisms and specific treatments, but they can exhi...

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Application of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: The Need for More Interpretable Artificial Int...

Understanding artificial intelligence (AI) and its different types is of the utmost importance for the application of this technology in h...

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Gender Dysphoria: Concepts, Diagnosis and Clinical Management...

Gender dysphoria is defined as a condition characterized by mental suffering associated with the incongruence between one’s experien...

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How Acta Médica Portuguesa Adjusted to Pandemic Times

A pandemia de COVID-19 tem colocado os sistemas de saúde sob enorme pressão um pouco por todo o mundo, tendo-se verificado nos últimos meses, em Portugal, uma completa reorganização da prestação de cuidados e a constan...

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Update on Atopic Dermatitis

With an increasing prevalence during the past decades, atopic dermatitis has become a global health issue. A literature search following a targeted approach was undertaken to perform this non-systematic review, which intends to provide an overview of the epidemiology...

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Stages for Undertaking a Systematic Review

There has been an increase in the use of systematic review as a research methodology to compile and analyze large datasets of existing studies. With this increase, the recommendations to conduct this type of research also increased. The aim of this article is to prov...

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