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It was just to be a joke, when the Brazilian José Gerardo Soares Filho, 18, a nursing student, decided to take a pregnancy test and the result was positive. It was in January of this year during a class. Upon showing the exam at home, her mother thought the result was the boy's girlfriend. But not. The hormonal alteration that gave a false positive pregnancy was due to a rare cancer: TGC (germ cell tumor, choriocarcinoma), located in the mediastinum (thoracic region). According to a study by researchers at the Cancer Hospital A.C. Camargo, this type of cancer is very rare, presenting in small germ cell tumors of the mediastinum. It affects young men (15-35 years old) and rarely women. They are usually not very large. One of the symptoms is precisely a high rate of serum b-HCG - the same hormone produced by pregnant women and detected in the pregnancy test. Gerardo was then submitted to chemotherapy sessions. At the beginning of June, despite a clinical improvement, the exams s...

Vegetarian meal served in the restaurant A vegetarian restaurant in Fortaleza (city in northeastern Brazil) adopted the solidarity lunch system, offering 3 free meals a day for people who haven't money. The system is very common in Europe and the USA. Who can afford paid lunch and gives a contribution to the box of restaurant. This extra money ensures the meal of who cannot pay. In addition to this innovation, the place also preaches the sustainability practicing an honest price for customers: each meal costs BRL 12.