7th Drug hypersensitivity meeting: part two

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The 2024 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: unprecedented warming demands unprecedented action

Record-breaking temperatures were recorded across the globe in 2023. Without climate action, adverse climate-related health impacts are expected to worsen worldwide, affecting billions of people. Temperatures in Europe are warming at twice the rate of the global average, threatening the health of populations across the continent and leading to unnecessary loss of life. The Lancet Countdown in Europe was established in 2021, to assess the health profile of climate change aiming to stimulate European social and political will to implement rapid health-responsive climate mitigation and adaptation actions. In 2022, the collaboration published its indicator report, tracking progress on health and climate change via 33 indicators and across five domains. This new report tracks 42 indicators highlighting the negative impacts of climate change on human health, the delayed climate action of European countries, and the missed opportunities to protect or improve health with health-responsive climate action. The methods behind indicators presented in the 2022 report have been improved, and nine new indicators have been added, covering leishmaniasis, ticks, food security, health-care emissions, production and consumption-based emissions, clean energy investment, and scientific, political, and media engagement with climate and health. Considering that negative climate-related health impacts and the responsibility for climate change are not equal at the regional and global levels, this report also endeavours to reflect on aspects of inequality and justice by highlighting at-risk groups within Europe and Europe's responsibility for the climate crisis

World Congress Of Ophthalmology, Panamerican And Brazilian Congress Of Prevention Of Blindness: "mission Accomplished" [congresso Mundial De Oftalmologia, Panamericano E Brasileiro De Prevenção Da Cegueira - Brasil: "missão Cumprida!"]

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Perceptions Of Ophthalmologists Regarding Teaching Models Applied To Contact Lenses [percep_̧tioes De Oftalmologistas Referentes Ao Modelo De Ensino Aplicado A Lentes De Contato]

Purpose: To identify perceptions regarding teaching models applied to contact lenses. Methods: A transversal study in a readily accessible sample consisting of ophthalmologists (n=39) was performed by applying a questionnaire. Results: The sample consisted of 39 ophthalmologists, 51.3% males and 48.7% females. Regarding frequency prior to courses on contact lenses, 28.2% reported only one course; 25.6% two courses; 5.1% three courses; 2.6% five courses and 2.6% more than 10 courses. 23.1% never attended contact lens courses and 12.8% did not answer the questionnaire. On comparison of previous knowledge with that acquired by the offered course, 59.0% declared that they increased their knowledge a lot; 33.3% reported median increase; 2.6% little increase and 5.1% did not answer. As concerns training in contact lenses, 66.7% answered that they never had any training; 30.7% answered affirmatively and 2.6% did not answer. Among those who had training, 75% declared it was good; 16.7%, very good and 8.3%, regular. Conclusion: The offered teaching model for contact lenses was considered very valuable, increasing a great deal of knowledge in most subjects.694615619Ghanem-Coral, C., Kara-José, N., (2003) Lentes De Contato: Manual, , São Paulo: Conselho Brasileiro de OftalmologiaOliveira, P.R., Kara-José, N., Alves, M.R., Temporini, E.R., Observância da orientação médica pelo usuário de lentes de contato (2004) Arq Bras Oftalmol, 67 (4), pp. 607-612Brightbill, F.S., Laux, D.J., Contact lens fitting (1986), St Louis, MosbyBuxton, J.N., Contact lenses in keratoconus (1978) Contact Intraocular Lens Med J, 4, pp. 74-85Mannis, M.J., Therapeutic contact lenses (1994) The Cornea, pp. 723-737. , In: Smolin G, Thoft RA. Boston: Little BrownOliveira, P.R., Lentes terapêuticas (1998) Lentes De Contato Na Clínica Oftalmológica, pp. 107-112. , In: Ghanem-Coral C, Kara-José N. 2a ed. Rio de Janeiro: Cultura MédicaOliveira, P.R., Uso de lentes de contato: Percepções e conduta de funcionários de hospital e estudantes universitários da área de saúde (2001), [tese]. São Paulo: Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São PauloRegula e fiscaliza o exercício da medicina, da odontologia, da medicina veterinária e das profissões de farmacêutico. Artigo 39. É vedado à casas de ótica confeccionar e vender lentes de grau sem prescrição médica, bem como instalar consultórios médicos nas dependências dos seus estabelecimentos (1932), http://www.cbo.com.br/medicos/legislacao/dec_20931.htm, Rio de Janeiro. Governo Provisório da República dos Estados Unidos do Brasil. Decreto 20.931 de 11/01/ [texto na Internet]. [citado 2005 Nov 19]. Disponível emKara-José, N., Receita de lente de contato (2000) Sinopse Oftalmol, 4, p. 98. , [editorial]Conselho Regional de Medicina de São Paulo confirma oficialmente que adaptação de lentes de contato é um ato médico (1997) J Oftalmol Jota Zero, p. 8. , 1997 março/ abrilEstatuto da SOBLEC em vigor (2005), http://www.soblec.com.br/estatuto/atual0304.doc, Sociedade Brasileira de Lentes de Contato, Córnea e Refratometria - SOBLEC. [texto na Internet]. São Paulo: SOBLEC[citado 2005 Maio 28]. Disponível emCoral-Ghanemt, C., Kara-José, N., (1998) Lentes De Contato Na Clínica Oftalmológica, , 2a ed. Rio de Janeiro: Cultura Médic

The 2022 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change : towards a climate resilient future

In the past few decades, major public health advances have happened in Europe, with drastic decreases in premature mortality and a life expectancy increase of almost 9 years since 1980. European countries have some of the best health-care systems in the world. However, Europe is challenged with unprecedented and overlapping crises that are detrimental to human health and livelihoods and threaten adaptive capacity, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the fastest-growing migrant crisis since World War 2, population displacement, environmental degradation, and deepening inequalities. Compared with pre-industrial times, the mean average European surface air temperature increase has been almost 1°C higher than the average global temperature increase, and 2022 was the hottest European summer on record. As the world's third largest economy and a major contributor to global cumulative greenhouse gas emissions, Europe is a key stakeholder in the world's response to climate change and has a global responsibility and opportunity to lead the transition to becoming a low-carbon economy and a healthier, more resilient society. The Lancet Countdown in Europe is a collaboration of 44 leading researchers, established to monitor the links between health and climate change in Europe and to support a robust, evidence-informed response to protect human health. Mirroring the Global Lancet Countdown, this report monitors the health effects of climate change and the health co-benefits of climate action in Europe. Indicators will be updated on an annual basis and new indicators will be incorporated to provide a broad overview to help guide policies to create a more climate-resilient future

Nucleation in tropical ecological restoration A nucleação na restauração ecológica de ecossistemas tropicais

Ecological theories of facilitation and nucleation are proposed as a basis for environmental restoration in tropical ecosystems. The main goal of this paper is to present restoration techniques based on the concept of nucleation, in which small nuclei of vegetation are established within a degraded land. The nucleation techniques (artificial shelters for animals, planting of herbaceous shrub life forms, soil and seed bank translocation, seed rain translocation, soil and seed rain translocation's seedling set, artificial perches, planting of native trees in groups, and ecological stepping-stones with functional groups) promote the landscape connectivity on two flows: inward: receiver connectivity and outward: donor connectivity. The nuclei development represents an alternative for restoration by prioritizing the natural processes of succession. This methodology appears to take long to generate vegetation corresponding to tropical climates, but is fundamental in the formation of communities capable of acting, in the future, as a new functional nuclei within the current fragmented landscape. This strategy also encourages greater integration between the theories and projects of ecological restoration for the development of human resources and to benefit the restoration practitioner.<br>As teorias ecológicas da facilitação e nucleação são propostas como base para a restauração ambiental de ecossistemas tropicais. Nesse "Ponto de Vista" apresentam-se técnicas de restauração fundamentadas no conceito de nucleação, onde pequenos núcleos de vegetação são implantados em uma área degradada. As técnicas de nucleação (abrigos artificiais para animais, plantio de espécies herbáceo-arbustivas, transposição de solo e banco de sementes, transposição de chuva de sementes, blocos de mudas procedentes de transposição de solo e chuva de sementes, poleiros artificiais, plantio de árvores nativas em grupos de Anderson, e trampolins ecológicos com grupos funcionais) promovem a conectividade da paisagem sob dois fluxos: interno: conectividade recebedora; e externo: conectividade doadora. O desenvolvimento dos núcleos representa uma alternativa de restauração que prioriza os processos de sucessão natural. A restauração através das técnicas de nucleação pode parecer muito lenta para atingir uma vegetação que corresponda ao clima tropical, porém representa uma base para a constituição de comunidades que, no futuro, poderão potencialmente atuar como novos núcleos funcionais dentro da atual paisagem fragmentada. Encoraja-se maior integração entre teorias ecológicas e projetos de restauração para desenvolvimento de recursos humanos e formação de restauradores ecológicos