A brief review intended as information to the readership of Clinics on papers recently published under various medical headings in Brazilian scientific journals recently indexed or about to be indexed in ISI-THOMSON Journal Citation Reports. Journals covered in this review are Acta Ortopédica Brasileira, Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular and Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira.

Recent original scientific contributions published in selected Brazilian periodicals and classifiable under cardiovascular and pulmonary subject categories cover a wide range of sub specialties, both clinical and exprimental. Because they appear in journals with only recently enhanced visibility, we have decided to highlight a number of specific items appeared in four Brazilian journals, because we understand that this is an important subsidy to keep our readership adequately informed. These papers cover extensive sub-areas in both fields.

To review recently published papers in the Brazilian Scientific press on the general subject of physical exercise. All articles published in 2010/2011 found through the keyword exercise were collected from 11 Brazilian Journals. They were hand filtered to exclude all but original research papers. They were grouped according to subject categories and subcategories. A brief summary of all included articles was produced, comparing similar articles between them. The most commonly found interactions refer to exercise vs. the cardiovascular system, metabolism and the locomotor system, in this order. The volume of scientific research in the field is high and of sufficient quality to justify highlighting.

This paper is a review of articles published in Brazilian scientific periodicals in recent years. Its main purpose is to bring to the attention of the readership of Acta Ortopedica Brasileira original contributions to the field published in non-specialized journals. We hope that this will serve as a general scientific update for readers. The review includes works published in six ISI indexed non-orthopedic journals, following a literature search conducted in fourteen such journals.

We reviewed original articles in the field of pulmonary medicine that had been recently published in 12 Brazilian journals-general or specialty journals-excluding the Brazilian Journal of Pulmonology. All were journals indexed for the Institute for Scientific Information Web of Knowledge. The selection of articles was based on the "continuously variable rating" concept. We have organized the articles by category.Keywords: Pulmonary medicine; Medical oncology; Research; Infectious disease medicine. ResumoRevisamos estudos originais no campo da pneumologia que foram recentemente publicados em 12 publicações gerais ou de especialidades -que não o Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia -indexadas no Institute for Scientific Information Web of Knowledge. A seleção dos artigos foi baseada no conceito de continuously variable rating, e os artigos foram classificados em categorias.

Notice is hereby given of the retraction of the article specified below. This retraction is the free initiative of the authors of the said article. The authors declare that this article constitutes reportage on recently published articles appeared in the Brazilian scientific press and therefore contains no newly published results. It was written for the information of readers of Sao Paulo Medical Journal. It is retracted because as a consequence of an honest error, it was not prepared in observance of good practices for reviewing of previously published literature. The retraction is formally approved by the Editors of Sao Paulo Medical Journal. ABSTRACTThis review surveys articles appertaining to the general field of pediatrics that have been published in Brazilian scientific periodicals over recent years. Its main purpose was to bring to the attention of the readership of the São Paulo Medical Journal original contributions from specialty and non-specialty journals. We hope that this can be seen as a general scientific update for the readers. We have covered articles appearing in Brazilian ISI-indexed journals, following a PubMed search. RESUMOEsta revisão cobre artigos pertencentes ao campo geral de pediatria publicados em revistas científicas brasileiras nos últimos anos. Seu principal objetivo é chamar a atenção dos leitores de São Paulo Medical Journal para contribuições originais de revistas especializadas e não especializadas. Oferecemos esta coletânea como uma atualização científica em geral para os leitores. Foram cobertos artigos publicados em revistas brasileiras indexadas no ISI, após uma busca PubMed.I MD, PhD. Editor, Hospital das Clínicas (HC),