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Study type: Prevalence study. Objective: To describe the socio demographic and clinical profile of patients with mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance (PAS) use, evaluated by the Psychiatric team of the Referenced Emergency Unit (REU) at the State University Clinical Hospital of Campinas (UNICAMP-HC). Methods and casuistic: This is a descriptive and quantitative study, which analyzed patients with mental and behavioral disorders due to PAS use, evaluated by the Psychiatric team of the REU-HC-UNICAMP during a period of 12 months, starting on May 2010. Results: There were evaluated 350 patients with PAS related disorders, representing 23.8% of those who sought psychiatric care. Most were males and younger than other patients of the emergency unit. The main reason for seeking help was psychiatric complaint other than PAS related disorders (23.1%), followed by desire to be treated oneself/being admitted to inpatient psychiatric treatment (20.8%) and intoxication (12.5%); 38.5% had a diagnosis of multiple PAS dependence and 34.8% were diagnosed with isolated alcohol dependence; 36% had psychiatric comorbidities and, when compared to other patients, they received more medications during attendance and were less directed to primary care units. Conclusion: There is a high rate of consultations of patients with PAS related problems in the psychiatric emergency unit. Data on the profile of the evaluated these patients can contribute to the improvement of care to this population

COVID-19 pandemic caused a huge overload of healthcare systems worldwide For such reason, in a preventive manner, governments and scientific societies recommended to stop any elective medical or surgical treatment in order to reduce the eventual burden on hospitals Fertility treatments have since then been reserved only to urgent cases as oncologic patients asking for fertility preservation However, the relevance of such policy on natality rate and on ovarian aging has soon induced the main scientific societies to ask for a fast return to action, considering that infertility should be treated as an urgent condition In this regard, phase 2 recommendations have been issued to ensure working requirements to be settled in the safest way possible Therefore, the Special Interest Group on Sterility (GISS) of the Italian Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics (SIGO) and its federates released their guidelines as Italy has been one of the first Western countries to face the phase 2 restart of treatments

BACKGROUND Increased incidence of cancer in women of childbearing age and improvements on treatment for preserving fertility have led to higher frequency of pregnancy during or after cancer treatment. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to describe maternal and perinatal outcomes associated with cancer and pregnancy and, as a secondary analysis, to compare outcomes of women with active disease and with remission before pregnancy. STUDY DESIGN We performed a retrospective study of women followed up at a referral center owing to a history of cancer or cancer diagnosed during pregnancy. Data on sociodemographic information, obstetrical history, types of neoplasia, treatments offered, antenatal follow-up, and maternal and perinatal outcomes were retrieved from medical chart review. A descriptive analysis was performed and a comparison among women with active and nonactive disease was performed using Student t-test and chi-square test. RESULTS A total of 66 women were included in a 5-year period. The most frequent types of cancer were breast (33%), hematologic (21%), brain (11%), cervical (9%), and ovarian (5%) cancers. There were 39 participants (59%) who had active disease and 26 who received oncological treatment during pregnancy, and 23 (34.8%) had a vaginal delivery. There were 4 women who needed intensive care unit admission postpartum. A total of 18 (29.5%) deliveries were at term, most newborns (59%) with adequate weight for gestational age and only 1 had Apgar score lower than 7 in the fifth minute of life. There was 1 stillbirth. The active invasive cancer during pregnancy group showed a higher rate of preterm birth and lower birthweight with significant statistical difference (P=.03 and P

Women and motherhood are important aspects of the immigration issue. Different behaviour related to reproduction and maternity among foreign women, when compared with that of Italian women, is a key factor that has led to a slowing down of the population decline in Italy. Difficulties connected to migration often have impacts on motherhood, in some cases posing problems and conflicts with being a mother. This can result in frequent recourse to abortion, difficulty in managing sexuality and reproductive capacity, and the decision to postpone the realization of children indefinitely – situations that may provoke deep lacerations in the fabric of women's identity. One of the main problems for immigrant women in relation to pregnancy, childbirth and childcare is a profound sense of isolation: having been uprooted from their families, friends, and their own cultural references and traditions related to motherhood, and in some cases giving birth in aseptic hospitals with doctors and nurses who do not even speak...

In the modern digital society colors are often used to encode information. Nevertheless the selection of set of colors that maximizes class discriminability for nominal coding is a non-trivial problem. In this work we compare four different heuristics for the selection of sets of colors with fixed cardinality and maximum dissimilarity. The performance of each algorithm is evaluated both on single and multiple illuminants, on a sample of 1268 colors from the Munsell atlas, using ΔE 76 euclidean metrics on the perceptually uniform CIE L* a* b* space. Results are presented for color sets with cardinality up to 25. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.