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Researchers of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in the United States, in a partnership with the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) and with the University of São Paulo (USP) and other institutions, have given an important step towards the finding of a treatment for yellow fever. Considered a worldwide trend, synthetic monoclonal antibodies have been the subject of studies all over the planet.
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When a new advisory group of the World Health Organization (WHO) for neglected diseases holds its first meeting this Friday, January 1st, there will be a Brazilian in the room. Thiago Moreno L.
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Celebrated last Sunday (January 30), the World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day draws attention to infections that affect more than one billion people worldwide, and yet receive little in terms of attention and investment. These diseases, such as Chagas disease, dengue fever, leishmaniasis, hanseniasis, schistosomiasis and worm-related illnesses, affect mostly poor people, resulting in death or in great health problems, worsening people’s quality of life as they make it harder to remain in school and in the workforce.
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In this role for less than five months, the new Ecuador ambassador in Brazil, Carlos Alberto Velástegui, visited Fiocruz last Friday (February 18) to strengthen the ties between his country and the Foundation.
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When he was about to turn 4 years old, Julinho started to attend a day care center near his home. The adaptation was difficult for the adults in the family, who were used to taking care of him all the time. “What if he had a seizure?”, “What if he cried a lot?”, “What if they forgot the medication schedule?”. The questions were frequent. But the boy surprised everyone with his good integration: he didn't seem to miss his mother and grandmother, he was kind to his classmates and encouraged all the time to try new things.
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Countries with high vaccination coverage are adopting a dangerous rhetoric according to which the pandemic is over or almost over. But how can one state that when there are still 70,000 people dying of COVID-19 in a week, worldwide? The warning was issued by the Assistant Director-General for Access to Medicines and Pharmaceutical Products of the World Health Organization (WHO), Brazilian Mariângela Batista Galvão Simão.
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Na semana do Dia Internacional da Mulher, os Seminários Avançados em Saúde Global e Diplomacia da Saúde do Centro de Relações Internacionais em Saúde (Cris/Fiocruz) se voltam para o tema Mulher e Saúde Global.
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Uma reunião na manhã da última quinta-feira (3/3) debateu a participação e o apoio do Governo da Bahia a um fórum internacional para discutir tecnologias sociais. O evento, que está sendo organizado pela Fiocruz, deve acontecer em Salvador entre os dias 19 e 22 de julho, e reunirá representantes da Organização das Nações Unidas para Alimentação e Agricultura (FAO) e de países da América Latina, Caribe e Ásia.
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Em alusão ao Dia Internacional da Mulher (8/3), a VideoSaúde apresenta neste mês três documentários sobre a temática.
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This Thursday (17/2) the Fiocruz Genomic Network released new figures on the lineages and variants of the Sars-CoV-2 virus in Brazil.
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The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), through the Immunobiological Technology Institute (Biomanguinhos), provides the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine (recombinant) produced with the national Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API). The first batch of national vaccines was released by the internal quality control of Bio-Manguinhos on 2/14.
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The Fiocruz Genomic Network has released new data on the status of lineages and variants of the Sars-CoV-2 in Brazil, based on the genomic surveillance produced by the Network and by other initiatives. According to the publication, while in December 39.4% of sequenced genomes belonged to the Omicron variant, in January 2022 this rate rose to 95.9%. The variant has now been found in all of the country’s regions. The Network Report shows that omicron now fully dominates the epidemiological scenario of Covid-19 in Brazil.
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As reported by the State Health Secretariats of Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina, Fiocruz has identified three cases of the BA.2 lineage of the Omicron variant, using genetic sequencing. Two of the cases occurred in Rio de Janeiro and the other in the southern state of Santa Catarina.
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A study analyzed the geographic distribution and the incidence of co-infection with a human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV) and a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Bahia, which is an endemic state for both retroviruses. The research was carried out using all samples submitted to serological tests at the Central Public Health Laboratory of Bahia (Lacen-BA), from 2004 to 2013.
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Diseases transmitted from animals to humans, such as spotted fever, Q fever, hantavirus diseases, and arenavirus diseases present early clinical symptoms that are similar to those of other infections, including fever, headache, or aches in the body, and malaise. Amidst an epidemic, when all eyes are focused on diseases that are circulating widely, such as dengue fever or Covid-19, these zoonoses are often forgotten when diagnosing a patient.
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The war in Ukraine has been thoroughly divulged, discussed, and explained on all social media platforms, in Brazil and abroad. Its geopolitical, economic, and social consequences have also been explored by specialists of all fields of knowledge and geographical position. However, there is one dimension that has been left out by this widely encompassing debate: the matter of health.
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O site Curta Biodiversidade ganhou novo visual e trouxe várias novidades. Reformulado com recursos da Faperj e fruto do projeto Ecologia, História e Saúde: o desenvolvimento de conteúdos audiovisuais sobre a biodiversidade brasileira para instituições de ensino e pesquisa do estado do Rio de Janeiro, o portal apresenta agora informações e vídeos relacionados a três séries de TV, um laboratório de criação de conteúdos audiovisuais sobre a biodiversidade, notícias, um catálogo de espécies e muito mais.
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A study by researchers of Fiocruz and of the University of Columbia has identified promising results in a combination of antiviral drugs for the treatment of COVID-19. Scientists showed that there is a synergy between the substances, inhibiting the enzymes that allow Sars-CoV-2 to multiply more effectively. Together, the drugs may reduce viral replication about ten times more than if taken separately.
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During a conference in London, attended by the world’s most prominent health authorities and specialists, Fiocruz president, Nísia Trindade Lima, emphasized the need to decentralize vaccine production and to strengthen investments in research and development, in order to reduce inequalities between countries. Her statement was made during the Global Summit for Preparation for Pandemics, last Tuesday (March 8th).
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March is celebrated as the month of International Women’s Day, but it is also the time to debate gender inequalities and guarantee of rights. This issue was highlighted by the ambassador of UN Women for Latin America, María del Carmen Squeff, at the Advanced Seminar in Global Health and Health Diplomacy of the Fiocruz Global Health Center (CRIS/Fiocruz), last Wednesday (March 9th). At the event, which was attended by researchers in the field, she highlighted the agency’s priorities for 2022 and emphasized the importance of alliances with institutions such as Fiocruz.
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An article published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, last Monday (March 7th), reveals the potential use of synthetic biosensors in rapid, decentralized, and low-cost tests for the diagnosis of patients infects with the zika virus.
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In reference to International Women’s Day, the Pasteur Institute, in Paris, paid homage to five female scientists that are part of the institution's international scientific cooperation network. Among them, representing the Americas, was researcher Teca Galvão, from the Laboratory for Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz).
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Entre 2017 e 2019, uma epidemia de febre amarela assolou diversas regiões do país. No Rio de Janeiro, por exemplo, após quase 80 anos sem registros da doença, 289 pessoas foram infectadas e outras 93 morreram.
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Through the Institute of Drug Technology (Farmanguinhos) and French laboratory Servier, Fiocruz signed, last Thursday (March 10th), a Memorandum of Understanding for technical cooperation to develop new drugs against chronic diseases, from a new pharmaceutical platform. This is an innovative technology based on the prolonged release of the active ingredient in the body, resulting in efficacy, safety, and more compliance and practicality for patients.
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The Global Network of Human Milk Banks (rBLH) has already started organizing the celebrations of World Human Milk Donation Day - 19 May. The first step consists in choosing the slogan for social mobilization for the donation of human milk in 2022.
Applications must be submitted between the 14th and the 25th of March.
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A Fiocruz celebrou nesta terça-feira (8/3) o Dia Internacional das Mulheres. Um dos destaques foi o debate Mulheres em ação na pandemia, que reuniu, nesta manhã, em uma plataforma online, pesquisadoras, gestoras e estudantes, que apresentaram suas trajetórias e conquistas e comentaram os desafios que ainda persistem para milhões de mulheres em todo o mundo.
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Um estudo demonstrou que o consumo de carne de caça – de animais como roedores, antas, porcos selvagens, veados e aves –, muito comum entre os ribeirinhos da Amazônia, pode reduzir as taxas de anemia infantil por ser uma fonte alimentar rica em ferro. A pesquisa foi realizada em uma parceria entre o Instituto Leônidas & Maria Deane (Fiocruz Amazonia), a Lancaster University, do Reino Unido, a Universidade de São Paulo (USP) e a Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA).
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O pesquisador Luiz Carlos Junior Alcantara, do Laboratório de Flavivirus do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC/Fiocruz), é um dos 15 cientistas convidados pela revista científica Nature Methods para apresentar abordagens que podem contribuir para combater futuras ameaças causadas por microrganismos emergentes.
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