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Sarcoidosis - Review of the literature in the context of an atypical presentation
Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Sarcoidosis – Review of the literature in the context of an atypical presentation Carolina Gonçalves [1] ; Marta Ferreira [2] ; Ana Grilo [2] [1] Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa. Lisboa (Portugal) [2] nternal Medicine. Hospital Beatriz Ângelo. Loures (Portugal) Localización: Galicia Clínica, ISSN 0304-4866, ISSN-e 1989-3922, Vol. 86, Nº. 2, 2025, págs.
Exploring Sustainable Fertilization Strategies Involving Biochar, Compost, and Inorganic Nitrogen: Impact on Nutrient Uptake, Yield, Phytochemical Accumulation, and Antioxidant Responses in Turnips
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Espondilodiscitis multifocal y meningoencefalitis por Staphylococcus aureus en un paciente inmunocomprometido
Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Espondilodiscitis multifocal y meningoencefalitis por Staphylococcus aureus en un paciente inmunocomprometido Joana Marques Dias [1] ; Carolina Abreu [1] ; Ana Grilo [1] ; Fernando Martos Gonçalves [1] [1] Beatriz Ângelo Hospital. Loures (Portugal) Localización: Galicia Clínica, ISSN 0304-4866, ISSN-e 1989-3922, Vol. 84, Nº. 4, 2023, págs.
Healthcare
Dear Colleagues, Rehabilitation can be a challenging process for both patients and healthcare professionals. Beyond the clinical setting, participants’ daily lives, including family members and daily occupations, can contribute to the quality of the rehabilitation process. The way in which healthcare professionals communicate and relate with the patient can play a central role in this process, including in the quality of patient participation and associated outcomes.
Attitudes toward Patient-Centred Care, Empathy, and Assertiveness among Students in Rehabilitation Areas: A Longitudinal Study
1. Introduction Patient-centredness has been described as a core philosophy of healthcare professionals to endorse high-quality healthcare [1,2], and a growing number of studies have shown that person-centred care practices are significantly associated with positive effects on a range of measures, such as higher satisfaction with care, a better quality of life, better rehabilitation outcomes, and lower care costs [3,4]. In a recent scoping study, Jesus et al.
Crystal Maldonado Is Just OK (And That’s Great)
Crystal Maldonado’s third book, and most recent foray into contemporary YA, is The Fall of Whit Rivera (Holiday House, Oct. 10), a cozy and inspirational blend of romance and self-realization that follows the title character, a bisexual Puerto Rican American teenager, as she grapples with a recent diagnosis of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), a chronic illness that affects all aspects of her life.
Portuguese Validation of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology Scale (UTAUT) to a COVID-19 Mobile Application: A Pilot Study
Abstract : The use of technology has proven to be a powerful tool in the fight against COVID-19 and its variants of concern (Gamma, Beta, Alpha, Delta, and Omicron). The urgency of responding to this worldwide pandemic has accelerated the development of monitoring systems and contact tracing applications. Without technology’s contribution, the adverse effects on humanity economically, socially, and psychologically would be even more devastating.
Light a Candle in the Name of Self-Care and Burn Down Your Sense of Self
What’s on the mind of a twenty-something these days? Sexy candles. Yes, really. The rising trend of decorative candles and vases in the shape of naked hourglass torsos has been taking up a lot of brain space lately. Amid the height of online feminist movements such as ‘Free the Nipple’ and ‘body-positivity,’ a notable rise in home decor taking on the female form emerged.
Does sports therapy affect momentary affective states? Feasibility of intensive longitudinal case studies in forensic psychiatry
Introduction There is a considerable amount of evidence showing that physical exercise interventions improve quality of life in people with mental disorders and improve abstinence and cravings in substance use disorder patients in both the short term and long term (1). In people with mental illness, physical exercise interventions significantly reduce psychiatric symptoms of schizophrenia (2) and symptoms of anxiety (3).
An Author Imagines the Future of Storytelling
Donna Barba Higuera’s The Last Cuentista (Levine Querido, Oct. 12) takes place in the year 2061, when the world is about to end. Humanity’s last chance is a journey deep into space, with a chosen few to spend 370 years in stasis. Twelve-year-old Petra Peña’s family is one of the lucky ones, but when she awakes in a future where everyone has been reprogrammed by a nefarious Collective, she realizes her suspended animation failed and she is the only one with the memories of the past intact.
Blurring the Line Between Fantasy and Reality
Romina Garber’s Wolves of No World series combines Argentine folklore with topical issues of immigration, identity, and the gender binary. Its main character, Manu, is an undocumented immigrant from Argentina who lives in the United States with her mother, terrified of being discovered and deported.
Introducing Young Readers to the Story of Selena
Diana López’s debut picture book, Sing With Me: The Story of Selena Quintanilla (Dial Books, July 20), introduces the late Tejano musician to a new generation of fans. The story follows Selena from her early days on the road with her close-knit family all the way to stardom, sharing her Mexican American roots and her music with fans, all depicted with beautiful, colourful illustrations by Teresa Martínez.
A Long-Distance, Low-Drama Queer Love Story
Jonny Garza Villa’s debut YA novel, Fifteen Hundred Miles From the Sun (Skyscape, June 8), celebrates the many facets of love as it follows Mexican American Julián “Jules” Luna during his senior year of high school in Texas.
Exploring the cancer patients' experiences during external radiotherapy: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative and quantitative evidence.
HIGHLIGHTS • Radiotherapy plays an essential role in cancer disease. More than 50% of cancer patients are treated using radiation treatment. • Radiotherapy is a complex experience that requires patients` adaptation and an overview of the evidence considering the experience-related themes is required in radiotherapy care. • Understanding the facilitators and barriers of cancer patients’ experiences provides health professionals tools for best practices in radiotherapy services.
Making a Refuge, on the Page and in the World
Onjali Q. Raúf’s The Star Outside My Window (Delacorte, Jan. 19) is a powerful tale following two siblings—10-year-old Aniyah and 5-year-old Noah—as they arrive at their new foster home near Oxford, England. It soon becomes clear to the reader that the kids are survivors of domestic abuse and that Aniyah is deeply traumatized by something she witnessed: She has lost her voice, doesn’t remember the events that led them here, and believes her missing mother, Isabella, is now a star.
Maria Padian: ‘I Always Felt Ethnically Adrift'
Interviewed by Ana Grilo on February 3, 2020 Greta Rybus Maria Padian’snew novel, How To Build a Heart (Algonquin, Jan. 28), is an exploration of family, community, and self-discovery centering on Isabella “Izzy” Crawford, a multiethnic teenager caught between worlds and trying to find a way through with her mother and younger brother after their Marine father’s death in Iraq. Padian, the author of Wrecked and other novels, answered some questions about the book.
When History Whispered to Anna-Marie McLemore
In 1518, a dancing fever plagued the city of Strasbourg (in modern-day France), causing hundreds of people (predominantly women) to dance for days without stopping. Many died from exhaustion, heart attack, or stroke. This historical episode, and two young characters who live through it, is one of the threads in Anna-Marie McLemore’s astonishing new YA novel, Dark and Deepest Red (Feiwel and Friends, Jan. 14).
A Space Opera for the Ages
By Ana Grilo on August 16, 2019 A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine is a debut novel for the ages: warm, brilliant, and deftly calibrated to examine difficult questions without missing out on character development or the frantic pacing of its storyline. And it opens with a commission: Ambassador Mahit Dzmare is sent to replace the previous ambassador to the Teixcalaanli Empire.
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
By Ana Grilo on August 2, 2019 It's been my pleasure to talk about Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s works throughout the life of this column and to follow this writer’s career so closely–enraptured by her stories, in love with her characters, eager to see where she would take me next. Well, “next” is Gods of Jade and Shadow, a superb, magnificent quest story about a young girl journeying across Mexico in the early 20s accompanied by one of the Mayan Gods of the underworld.
This is How I Lose My Heart
By Ana Grilo on July 19, 2019 This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Hello, it is I, your friendly neighbourhood time travel enthusiast to talk about a unique, delectable, precious offering that the publishing gods have deemed us worthy of reading. Created by the powerhouse minds of Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War is a poetic, bloody, violent, queer and romantic take on time travel, history and above all, love.
Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
By Ana Grilo on June 7, 2019 A murder mystery in a boarding school for magic children featuring a non-magic, resentful, hard-boiled Private Detective. Ivy and Tabitha Gamble are twin sisters who are super close until the day one of them—Tabitha—learns she is a magically gifted child who has a place at the Osthorne Academy for Young Mages. Ivy is the one left behind, the one that has been denied anything magical, a whole new world outside her grasp.
Shattered Minds, Shattered Future
By Ana Grilo on June 23, 2017 In a terrifyingly believable future, information technology controls everything – including personality. A former neuroscientist with Sudice Inc., Carina struggles with not only her ongoing addiction to Zeal – the drug that allows people to live out their lives as virtual selves – but also her urge to kill people.
Caves, Horrors and Unreliable Narrators
By Ana Grilo on May 24, 2019 Is caving the new shiny thing in speculative fiction? Three books—a novel and two novellas—I read recently are Science Fiction thrillers featuring caving. Heck, it truly works as a horror hook for me, as I can’t imagine anything scarier than spelunking in the dark, pretty much alone and in an inhospitable environment, be said environment another planet, an artefact from another civilization or an outworld prison.
Summer Reads | Kirkus Reviews
By Ana Grilo on May 10, 2019 Anticipated reads—SUMMER EDITION! We are already well into Q2 of 2019 so it’s time for another list of anticipated reads – SUMMER EDITION! I don’t know how this happened (mysteries of publishing) but at least four of my highly anticipated books of the year come out on the SAME DAY.
Atlas Alone by Emma Newman
By Ana Grilo on April 26, 2019 In the fourth stand-alone novel in the Planetfall series, Emma Newman once again deftly combines science fiction, mental health, and looking to the stars for answers. Dee is one of the survivors onboard Atlas 2, the generation ship that left Earth after a group of people ordered a nuclear strike that killed billions (these events took place in book 2 of the series, After Atlas).
All the time travel right NOW
By Ana Grilo on March 29, 2019 I love time travel books SO much and 2019 is proving to be The Year of Time Travel with a whole lot of books being released in the subgenre. I am devouring all of them as they come out—and already have four recommendations for the fellow time travelling enthusiast: The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley—the future is a mess, nations no longer exist, and corporations run the world and control its citizens.
Salvagers, Pirates and Emotions
By Ana Grilo on March 15, 2019 In Space, no one can hear you scream. Unless you are screaming internally and you are connected to an AI that can hear you and also have been recently infected with a maybe-who-knows parasitic alien that allows you to communicate with the universe itself. I am only half joking here, I always use humour to deflect my emotions as a type of calibration.
I Am So Lonely | Kirkus Reviews
By Ana Grilo on March 1, 2019 Melmoth by Sarah Perry LOOK. (Look.) There goes Helen Franklin. She lives in Prague now, working as a translator of boring manuals, a pitiful, subdued woman in a quiet, unexciting life. Just like she deserves. 20 years ago, she did something she is utterly ashamed of.
Writing Girls | Kirkus Reviews
By Ana Grilo on February 15, 2019 Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson and The Lost Girl by Anne Ursu This is a story of two books. Of making bad decisions with good intentions and having to deal with the consequences. Of how two authors have written about girls in a way that is embracing, empowering, and ever so topical.
What to Read in the Next Few Months
By Ana Grilo on February 1, 2019 2019 has barely started and somehow it is already February(?!) and I haven’t talked about my anticipated reads for this first quarter. So here they are today. The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi is already out and I have read it and OH MY GOD, it is SO good.
3 for 1 Science Fiction Reads
By Ana Grilo on January 18, 2019 I have been catching up on my reading and I have three super great science fiction titles to recommend: one adult, one YA and one middle grade. The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi is the superb follow-up to The Collapsing Empire. It goes something like this: in the far, FAR future, the Interdependency keeps humanity united, and distant habitats are interconnected via the Flow (the extra-dimensional, wormhole-esque field that allows travelling between systems).
Of Monsters and Women
“If we kill all the monsters, mankind will take their place.” —The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke What is it, you think, that drives people to want to change their lives? A chance to better themselves? An opportunity to beat boredom? To gain freedom, to achieve glory, fortune, and a place in legend? For the girls in The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke, especially its main narrator, Frey, it is really all of the above.
Before the End Comes
The feeling I have for 2018: it simultaneously feels like it only just started and that it has lasted more than a century. However, the fact remains that I didn’t read as many books as I would have liked and as such, I am hoping to get as much reading as possible before December 31.
Murderbot #4: The end but not The End
In this new episode of The Continued Adventures of Murderbot: CLOSURE! Dr Mensah! EMOTIONS! Conspiracies! Action! Friendship! MORE EMOTIONS! The fourth—AND FINAL! WOE IS ME—entry in Martha Wells’ series of novellas, Exit Strategy follows Rogue Protocol, Artificial Condition and All Systems Red, all of which I have enthusiastically reviewed here.
Doing Buffy One Better: Sawkill Girls and the Subversion of Genre Tropes
Hello, let me tell you about Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand, how much I loved it and how it tramples on a number of minor and major tropes like a boss. A horror YA novel, Sawkill Girls is about tradition, survival and death. It has four major viewpoint characters who are given equal footing in the story. Plain and awkward new girl Marion moves to the small town of Sawkill Rock, a remote island with a close-knit community where everybody is nice to each other but also where dark secrets are kept.
Writing Girls and Rethinking Fairytales
I am a voracious, enthusiastic reader of all things young adult and one of the things that interests me the most as a reader, reviewer, and editor is the way that we write about girls, how those stories are framed, and how we engage with them. Warning: this column contains girls. And spoilers. But mostly, girls.
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
In 2018, a young woman called Odette walks into the basement of the museum where she just started temping to find a murdered body in a locked room. The victim has no ID and her death is ruled inconclusive. It is 1967 and time travel is on the cusp of being invented by four women: Barbara, Lucille, Grace, and Margaret, the team leader. These scientists have worked hard and secretly and when they finally have their breakthrough, their first few sessions are a resounding success.
Deceive, Inveigle, Obfuscate
There are secrets and lies, deceit and obfuscating, plus a lot of gaslighting in Amy Lukavics' Nightingale. The author has built a backlist of super dark feminist YA horror centring the experiences of young women against the backdrop of traditional horror scenarios. With Daughter Unto Devils we had the isolated cabin in the prairie nightmare; The Women in the Walls we had a haunted mansion; and Ravenous had a twist on zombies.
Amelia Dreams of Mars
“There are only two plots... A person goes on a journey and a stranger comes into town." No stranger comes to Mexico City in this new novella by chameleon writer Silvia Moreno-Garcia, but an estranged lover does come back to Amelia’s life, someone she thought she would never see again. They reconnect but there are no emotional explosions or a Great Love Story to experience.
10 Fall Books to Look For
It is that time of the year already, September and October being two of the most anticipated months in terms of publishing’s highly expected titles. Here are ten titles I am MOST looking forward to this year: Ignite the Stars by Maura Milan comes out on September 4 and it’s Science Fiction YA, touted as the beginning of a series focused on social justice.
A Sense of Quiet Happiness
What is happiness, exactly, and how do we achieve it? What if there was a machine that could use a swab of your DNA to come up with the answers for you? That is the premise of Katie Williams’ first adult novel, Tell the Machine Goodnight. In a not so far future, Apricity is the Happiness Machine, a piece of technology that uses DNA to come up with solutions, ways for people to find happiness, usually in the form of an itemized list with three entries.
Murderbot 3: EMOTIONS
In this new episode of The Continued Adventures of Murderbot: Snark! Lots of media downloaded and consumed! Another group of pesky humans in need of saving! More snark! ENEMIES! MYSTERY! UNEXPECTED EMOTIONS! And a new robot pal. If you aren’t caught up yet with this series of novellas, Rogue Protocol is the third entry, following Artificial Condition and All Systems Red.
Summer Reading | Kirkus Reviews
Summer reading is here (well at least in the Northern hemisphere, of course) and I have three wonderful recommendations: a mind-bending YA thriller, a lovely romantic Fantasy and a post-apocalyptic YA. This Story Is a Lie by Tom Pollock is out in a couple of weeks from Soho Teen and is a complex, mind-messing thriller about a math prodigy teen boy named Peter Blankman who suffers extreme anxiety disorder and is prone to panic attacks.
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Hello, let me tell you how super great The Calculating Stars, the new novel by Mary Robinette Kowal, is. It’s an alternate history of the world set in the 50s, in which a meteorite falls to Earth, causing what Elma, our protagonist – a lady scientist, physicist, mathematician and awesome pilot to boot – calculates is an extinction event. This accelerates the space program since humans now have to GET OUT OF HERE as fast as possible, anticipating the moon landing by almost a decade.
Bruja Born by Zoraida Córdova | Kirkus Reviews
This is not a love story. Lula Mortiz, heartbroken and almost dead, casts a spell to save the life of her beloved — and then has to deal with the consequences of her actions when the Lady de la Muerte herself gets involved. But I am ahead of myself: Bruja Born is the outstanding sequel to Labyrinth Lost, which I had the pleasure to read and review last year for this column.
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells - Murderbot 2: How to Human
One of my favourite books from last year was the charming award-winning novella All Systems Red by Martha Wells. In that first novella, a team of scientists is conducting a research on a distant, uninhabited planet as part of a mission approved by a murky corporation simply called The Company. The team is supplied by The Company with a security android, known as a SecUnit.
Open your heart to Portero and Dia Reeves
A few years ago I found a town called Portero set in a world unlike anything I had read before, written by a writer called Dia Reeves. Bleeding Violet and Slice of Cherry were the first two books and now, after a long, long wait—YEARS—the author is back with more books set in Portero. Two standalone novels: Miscreated and Heart Sick. In Portero, doors to other worlds open in mid-air from where people can appear and disappear to never be seen again—and so can monsters.
Family, ancestors and Coco
I've been thinking about family and ancestors a lot lately. My father is dying of cancer (f**k cancer) and even though we've had a fraught relationship our entire lives, somehow—ironically, unexpectedly—our difficult relationship seems to matter less at this stage. But when I think about my dad, I also inevitably think about my beloved granddad, my mother's father, who was my de facto father. He died only a few years ago when I was already living far away in England.
Spring at last! | Kirkus Reviews
In some corners of the northern hemisphere (*stares at weather outside window*) it is technically spring already and it’s time to look at the upcoming books that I am excited about. Next week, on April 3, Dread Nation by Justina Ireland finally lands. This one is YA and a reimagining of Reconstruction-era America with zombie soldiers on both sides rising from the dead and a young Black girl who slays them. This one seems to combine politics, feminism and badassery and I am very much here for that.
Gods, Monsters and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson
It opens in the far past as a King meets a monster and he knows what he has to do. After all, Kings were made for killing monsters. In the far future of 2267, everything has gone to shit after a series of ecological disasters forced humans to find alternative living underground in “hells” that succumbed to plagues and epidemics over and over. But humanity still endures—and the surviving plague babies made their way to the top of the world and created new habitats.
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