Health care demands more and more cooperation and the convergence of all health related sciences, from Life Molecules to Global Health, as was most recently shown by the challenge of the COVID pandemic. This book brings together science contributions from NOVA’s researchers on biology and health, in the format of a broad life construct book.
- Cover
- Copyright page
- Title page
- Foreword (Fundação Amélia de Mello)
- Preface (António Rendas)
- Introduction (José Fragata; João Sàágua)
- Chapter I – The structure of life
- A. Molecules of life – structure of proteins (Maria João Romão; Margarida Archer; Eurico J. Cabrita; Cláudio M. Soares)
- B. Information codes of life- RNA & DNA (Cecília Maria Arraiano; Isabel de Sá-Nogueira)
- C. Microbes Fighting Back & Antibiotic Resistance (Raquel Sá-Leão; Luís Jaime Mota)
- D. Small molecules drugs and biopharmaceuticals (Paula M. Alves; Pedro M. Matias; Ana Cecília Roque)
- Chapter II – Materials, devices & regenerative medicine
- A. Engineering with Cells and Biomaterials: Tissues and Organs in the Making (Jorge Carvalho Silva; Célia Henriques; Maria do Carmo Lança; João Paulo Borges)
- B. Medical Devices for Monitoring, Diagnosis and Rehabilitation (José Paulo Santos; Ricardo Vigário; Carla Quintão; Hugo Gamboa; Claudia Quaresma)
- C. Nanobiotechnology tools for diagnosis and therapy (Ana S. Coroadinha; Pedro V. Baptista)
- D. Biosensors and diagnostic tests (Hugo Águas; Elvira Fortunato; Rui Igreja; Rodrigo Martins; Abel Oliva)
- Chapter III – Normal Living
- A. Development and Aging (Helena Canhão; Luís Miguel Borrego; Catarina Martins; Manuel Gonçalves-Pereira)
- B. Nutrition (Ana Faria; Diana Teixeira; Cláudia Marques; Diogo Pestana; Conceição Calhau)
- C. Molecular Nutrition and Health: dietary polyphenols and neurodegenerative diseases (Catarina Pinto; Cláudia Nunes dos Santos)
- D. Biodiversity and health: Investing in biodiversity protection towards health gains (Carla Viegas; Gabriela Moniz; João Pargana; Susana Marques; Catarina Resende; Carla Martins; Ana Paula Arez; Nadia Ceratto; Susana Viegas)
- Chapter IV – Human diseases
- A. Age-related diseases: common mechanisms and therapeutic approaches (Sandra Tenreiro; Paulo Pereira; Otília V. Vieira; Cláudia Guimas Almeida; Hugo Vicente Miranda; Helena L. A. Vieira; Miguel C. Seabra)
- B. From a classical to a new NOVA perspective on cardiometabolic diseases (João Filipe Raposo; José A. Belo; Sílvia V. Conde; Emília C. Monteiro; José Silva Nunes; Sofia A. Pereira; Gabriela A. Silva; Maria Paula Macedo)
- C. Musculoskeletal Diseases (F. M. Pimentel-Santos; Alexandre Sepriano; Ana Filipa Mourão; Ana M. Rodrigues; Filipe Barcelos; Guilherme Ferreira dos Santos; José Guimarães Consciência; Pedro Soares Branco; Sandra Falcão; Sofia Ramiro; Helena Canhão; Jaime C. Branco)
- D. Respiratory diseases (Pedro Carreiro-Martins; Nuno Neuparth)
- E. Psychiatric Disorders and Mental Health (Miguel Xavier; Manuel Gonçalves-Pereira)
- F. From the Immunological Paradigm of Pregnancy to the Challenges of Present Maternal-Fetal Medicine (Luís Miguel Borrego; Fátima Serrano)
- G. Fighting Cancer in all fronts (Sofia Braga; Sónia Dias; Ana Gama; Maria Guadalupe Cabral; Antonio Jacinto)
- H. Carcinogenesis – a chess game with various genetic pieces (José Rueff)
- Chapter V – Public and global health
- A. Globalization and health (Alexandre Abrantes; Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto; Paulo Sousa)
- B. Travel Medicine (Jorge Seixas; Jorge Atouguia)
- C. Transmissible diseases and infection (Miguel Viveiros; Pedro Póvoa)
- D. Migration and Health – A Priority in the Global Health Agenda (Sónia Dias; Ana Gama)
- E. Pandemics (Celso Cunha; Filomeno Fortes)
- F. Health Promotion and health literacy (Isabel Loureiro; Sónia Dias; Ana Rita Goes)
- Chapter VI – The other face of medicine
- A. Value in health (Ana Londral; José Fragata)
- B. Health Economics in Portugal and the role of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Pedro Pita Barros)
- C. Health Systems, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the "European Health Union" (Sara Vera Jardim; Inês Fronteira; Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto; Jorge Simões)
- D. Health law and ethics, biolaw and bioethics (João V. Cordeiro; Paula Lobato de Faria; Diogo Pais; Helena Pereira de Melo)
- E. Clinical investigation, innovation and ethics (Maria Alexandra Ribeiro)
- F. The other face of medicine: eHealth in the European Dimension (Ricardo Jardim-Gonçalves; Maria Marques; Carlos Agostinho)
- G. Communication strategies in healthcare (Helena Serra)
- H. Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety (Paulo Sousa; José Fragata)
- I. Studies of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (Leonardo Vanneschi)
- J. Which medical professional? (Isabel Faro de Albuquerque; Catarina Martins Lopes; Nuno Lourenço-Silva; José Fragata; Emília Monteiro)
- K. Medical Education or the confluence of two related areas (Patrícia Rosado Pinto)
- L. Healthcare Management and Leadership (Isabel Faro de Albuquerque; Catarina Martins Lopes; Carolina Duarte Lopes; Rui Santana)
- M. Health Informatics: Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction in Health Domains (Nuno Correia; João Magalhães)
- About of Authors
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