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Barbara Starfield died 10th June 2011. She was a giant of primary health care. Her publications have being critical for building up a framework for health services researh, and for health policy. This obituary remember her work and life. Quando um gigante cai, os añoes ficam sem sombra. Gérvas, J., Peréz Fernández, M. Rev Soc [...]

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Seminars of Innovation in Primary Care started in 2005 and they are still on in 2011. This text explains how the Seminars are organized, the methodology and how they finish with formal publications. Key points are the on-line debate before and after the face-to-face workshop, the themes selected, the difussion of practical and theoretical questions [...]

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Iodine supplements during pregnancy could be a dangerous practice in places with normal and medium level de iodine food content. Spanish data show that iodine supplements are associate with problems of the thyroid gland (in the female) and problems in the psychological-motor development of the offspring (girls). Iodine supplements to pregnant women. Gérvas J. Marzo [...]

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Flu H2N2 is presented as a terrible epidemic in the XX century, with one and half million deads from 1957 to 1968. But this data only give an impression of severity as we can expect around five millions with a “normal” seasonal flu in this period of time. Flu H2N2, mortality and vaccination. Gérvas J. [...]

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Swine flu was managed is such a way by World Health Organization and national authorities that created panic. At the end of the epidemic WHO and national authorities did not do an analytical exercise to examinate their errors. So they were not errors but a world campaign of “disease mongering”. The Spanish case of the [...]

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In the Internet era being a human and scientific physician is even a more important question than previously. In this open letter to a student of first year the author review the foundation of physicians’ work and promote a style of a professional who loves their duties. Why become a doctor if there’s Internet? Open [...]

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Ignorance is frequently the rule in between neighbours. This study focus on political borders as scientific barries with data from Portuguese and Spanish publications in the field of General Practice. Spanish authors fully ignore their Portugueses colleages which in turn cited them just in low percentage. Both use to cite English papers, as the European [...]

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