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Today, games play active roles in diverse stages of the treatment of various mental illnesses. Despite this favourable context, their use as tools in the treatment of anorexia nervosa is still quite unexplored. We are developing playful and gamified tools that can be used as instruments in the prevention, treatment and monitoring of this complex disease. The objective of this paper is to present the initial process of design and development of a card-based game called How do I feel when… Its purpose consists of stimulating empathy among family members of patients with anorexia nervosa. Play sessions are to be mediated by health professionals and are supposed to occur in the context of support and therapeutic groups for family members of people suffering from eating disorders or in clinical consultations. Preliminary tests and expert reviews showed that the game is effective in establishing free association of subjects in players’ reasonings, and in inciting the externalisation and sharing of players’ feelings. It also demonstrated that, because players usually read the cards in accordance to their life experience, the game is able to circumscribe and personalise the subjects to be discussed.

This paper presents the research and development of a redesign of Bem-me-ker – an application of the Portuguese Oncology Institute (IPO) of Porto. For this project, we resorted to a user-centric methodology featuring a survey of the current market and the context of the digital health industry, interviews and usability tests with patients, caregivers and stakeholders. Such user-centric methodology proved to be efficient in responding to their needs, with satisfactory results. Its contributions are focused on the incorporation of the concept of patient navigation into the design of an onboarding application, transforming it into a virtual manager of the disease for cancer patients, and with the ultimate goal to improve their wellbeing and quality-of-life. We see that this approach is also capable of being adjusted to the needs of other institutions and patients, thus contributing to the improvement of the national health service, providing digitally optimized information to citizens.

Clinical History: A 58-year-old woman presented to the emergency department complaining of 12h onset crampy pain in the upper abdomen, nausea and vomiting, with no fever. She had abdominal distention and tenderness, without guarding or rebound tenderness. Laboratory tests revealed leukocytosis and elevated C-reactive protein. She referred previous visits to the emergency department for similar episodes in the past 4 years, and she was in current investigation for recurrent skin rashes. Ultrasonography was performed followed by CT., 58 years, female

Clinical History: A sixty-five-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a 5-day history of nausea and diarrhoea and a 2-day onset of non-productive cough and asthenia, without fever. Her husband had similar symptoms, and both had no epidemiological context for COVID-19 infection. She had type-2 diabetes-mellitus, arterial hypertension and chronic renal disease. Both were positive on RT-PCR test for COVID-19., 65 years, woman

Clinical History: An 83-year-old female patient, presented with fever (38C), dry cough and asthenia for four days. She denied dyspnoea, chest pain, and gastrointestinal symptoms. She lived with her daughter. Laboratory studies revealed elevated serum ferritin (401 ng/mL; normal range 12 ng/mL - 300 ng/mL), slightly increased C-reactive protein (CRP, 7.58 mg/L; normal range, 83 years, female

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) represents 90% of adult renal malignancies and it is the most lethal urologic cancer. [1] Nowadays, RCC is no longer viewed as a single entity but rather as a heterogeneous group of neoplasms with distinct histological...

A plataforma Algorithmic Science News (ASN) é uma nova ferramenta criada por uma equipa multidisciplinar que surgiu da necessidade de reinscrever o papel das notícias sobre ciência no espaço mediático presente. A plataforma tem como objetivo aumentar o número de notícias científicas disponíveis para os editores e reduzir o esforço associado a tarefas mais demoradas como a recolha de dados e análise de artigos científicos, facilitando todo o processo de produção de notícias. A plataforma ASN agrega um conjunto de funcionalidades destinadas a apoiar o trabalho habitual de um jornalista em contextos redatoriais, permitindo a utilização de documentos em repositórios científicos de acesso aberto. O desenvolvimento de algoritmos que trabalham sobre estes repositórios seguiu o propósito de facilitar o acesso e a exploração destas coleções e permitir que os órgãos de comunicação as utilizem como fonte informativa. Neste projeto desenvolveram-se ferramentas de leitura e interpretação, escrita e sugestão semântica. No que concerne à leitura e interpretação, o ASN permite encontrar especialistas relacionados com o artigo científico, resumir as partes mais determinantes, nomeadamente a introdução, objetivos, metodologias e resultados, apresentar definições de termos técnicos e sugerir projetos relacionados com o tema. No que diz respeito à parte de escrita, a plataforma permite escrever notas relacionadas com partes do artigo e ter acesso a sugestões de frases. A utilização de uma versão beta desta plataforma em contextos redatoriais permitirá perceber até que ponto a automação de tarefas associadas à produção jornalística poderá ajudar os meios de comunicação em transição para o digital, assim como contribuir para uma maior eficiência nas tarefas associadas ao jornalismo de ciência, permitindo uma maior massificação e qualidade na produção de notícias científicas no panorama mediático atual. The Algorithmic Science News (ASN) platform is a new tool created by a multidisciplinary team that emerged from the need to reinscribe the role of science news in today's media space. The platform aims not only to increase the number of scientific news available to publishers, but also to reduce the effort associated with more time-consuming tasks such as collecting data and analyzing scientific articles and thereby facilitating the entire news production process. The ASN platform includes a set of features designed to support the journalist's standard procedure in writing contexts, allowing the use of documents in open access scientific repositories. The development of algorithms working on these repositories followed the purpose of facilitating the access and exploration of these collections and allowing the media to use them as an information source. In this project, we developed tools of reading and interpretation, writing and semantic suggestion. With regard to reading and interpretation, ASN helps on finding specialists related to the scientific article, summarizes the most determinant parts, namely the introduction, objectives, methodologies and results, present definitions of technical terms, and suggest projects related to the topic. With regard to the writing part, the platform allows to write notes related to parts of the article and have access to phrases suggestions. The use of a beta version of this platform in writing contexts will allow the realization of the extent to which the automation of tasks associated with journalistic production can help the media in transition to digital, as well as to contribute to a greater efficiency in the tasks associated with science journalism, allowing a greater massification and quality in the production of scientific news in the current media landscape.

According to article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), States Parties must ensure that persons with disabilities are able to access tertiary education, vocational training, adult education and lifelong learning without discrimination and on an equal basis with others. To this end, the Convention sets forth the obligations of the States Parties to ensure that, among other things, the persons with disabilities receive the support required and reasonable accommodation is provided. The objective of this project is to develop a new tool to encourage the inclusion of persons with disabilities in higher education; promote their inclusion in the university community supporting both faculty and administrative staff in order to respond to diversity; promote the international mobility among students with disabilities and raise awareness within the university community regarding accessibility and social inclusion of young persons with disabilities.