Data de publicação: 19/03/2025 - 14:42
A new study carried out by researchers from the National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira (IFF/Fiocruz) highlights the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding in strengthening babies' immunity against COVID-19. The research, which involved women vaccinated against the virus, revealed that human milk contains significant levels of neutralizing antibodies, especially among mothers who breastfeed exclusively...
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Data de publicação: 07/03/2025 - 15:56
On Tuesday (2/25), the Brazilian Ministry of Health announced that Fiocruz and the company Biomm will enter into a production development partnership for the fully national manufacture of insulin glargine. Scheduled for distribution to the Unified Health System (the Brazilian national public system, SUS) in the second half of 2025, the measure is part of the Productive Development Partnerships (PDP) Program. It involves the production of the...
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Data de publicação: 27/02/2025 - 15:34
The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), through the Oswaldo Cruz House (COC), and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) are launching a call for the International Research Excellence Program of the Oswaldo Cruz House (PROEP-INTER 2025) The notice was published last Friday (2/21) in the Federal Official Gazette by the CNPq.
Because of its importance,...
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Data de publicação: 27/02/2025 - 14:40
The World Health Organization (WHO) launched the Collaborative Open Research Consortium (CORC) on Flaviviruses in partnership with Fiocruz in an online event on Monday (2/24). The CORCs are a new strategy for the organization, through its Research and Development (R&D) Blueprint for Epidemics. By focusing on viral families rather than individual pathogens, CORCs aim to create a more comprehensive approach to tackling future health...
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Data de publicação: 27/02/2025 - 11:36
Animation presents a three-dimensional reconstruction of the 'viral factory' in a cell infected by the mpox virus: dark blue represents the cell nucleus; orange represents mature viral particles; green represents mitochondria; yellow represents rough endoplasmic reticulum; violet represents empty vesicles; purple represents immature viral particles; and light blue represents viral DNA (Image: Barreto-Vieira and...
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Data de publicação: 25/02/2025 - 16:12
Fiocruz played a key role in the 14th Brazil-Portugal Summit, that took place on Wednesday (02/19) in Brasília. At the high-level meeting, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva discussed with Prime Minister Luís Montenegro bilateral cooperation in various areas, such as health, science and technology, the economy and justice, and celebrated 200 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
President of Fiocruz,...
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Data de publicação: 21/02/2025 - 12:05
The intense heat in Rio de Janeiro is not just an appeal for going to the beach or a reason for discomfort and stress for those with no way of cooling off. The high temperatures for which the marvelous city is known are related to an increased mortality in the capital of Rio de Janeiro. This is what research by João Henrique de Araujo Morais, a doctoral student at the Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (Ensp/Fiocruz) and...
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Data de publicação: 20/02/2025 - 16:56
In the context of the Year of Brazil in France and France in Brazil, the French ambassador, Emmanuel Lenain, visited Fiocruz on Thursday (2/13) to further consolidate the partnership between the Foundation and the institutions of his country. While this collaboration is already long-standing in the areas of education and research, the idea now is to also advance in production and expand the mobility of researchers. In addition to meeting with...
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Data de publicação: 20/02/2025 - 16:09
Published in the journal The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, an article by researchers from the Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS/Fiocruz) points out that 1 in 4 women (25.4%) had to leave the municipality to give birth in hospitals belonging to the Unified Health System (SUS), increasing from 23.6% to 27.3% in the period analyzed. Travel distance and time also increased by 31.1% (54.0 km to 70.8 km) and 33.6% (63.1 min to...
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Data de publicação: 19/02/2025 - 11:27
Developed with the participation of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz), the first molecular diagnostic kit for rotavirus and norovirus in Brazil should contribute to the surveillance of pathogens and the investigation of outbreaks of acute diarrhea. The innovation has been approved by the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa). The quadriplex test allows for four simultaneous investigations, including rotavirus, two norovirus...
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Data de publicação: 18/02/2025 - 11:49
This year marks a decade since the United Nations (UN) established February 11th as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The creation of the date draws attention to the importance of seeking gender equity in scientific careers, a space where, for example, the "scissors effect" still prevails: the fact that, although there are already more women than men entering many fields, it is men, and not women, who occupy the...
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Data de publicação: 14/02/2025 - 12:30
The executive director of the Pasteur Network, Rebecca Grais, visited Fiocruz on Thursday (2/6) to discuss an even greater role for the Foundation in 2025. Received by president Mario Moreira at the Moorish Castle, she met with members of the Office, the Fiocruz Global Health Center (Cris/Fiocruz), and the Immunobiological Technology Institute (Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz) to see what this participation might look like.
Rebecca Grais met with...
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Data de publicação: 13/02/2025 - 10:50
Researchers from Fiocruz Bahia have identified the main predictors of tuberculosis incidence in Brazil by analyzing the disease records from January 2018 to December 2023, and have made projections from 2024 to 2030. The results suggest that, although valuable, current public policies are not enough to reduce the burden of tuberculosis, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) elimination plan.
The study, coordinated by...
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Data de publicação: 13/02/2025 - 10:06
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new strategy for identifying priority pathogens through the R&D Blueprint Program of the Department of Health Emergencies. The initiative, launched in 2024, highlights research and development (R&D) as a central element in preventing, preparedness for and responding to epidemics and pandemics.
In this context, for each priority pathogen family, a Collaborative Open Research Consortium...
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Data de publicação: 10/02/2025 - 15:38
Since the end of 2023, several outbreaks of Oropouche fever have occurred in the Region of the Americas. In Brazil alone, there were more than 17,400 cases between 2023 and 2025, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
Fulfilling its mission to provide answers to public health, professionals from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) have been contributing to a series of initiatives. The latest is the production of an operational...
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Data de publicação: 10/02/2025 - 10:30
The president of Fiocruz, Mario Moreira, participated this Friday (1/31) in the launch of the 4th 100 Days Mission Implementation Report at an event held by the International Pandemic Preparedness Secretariat (IPPS). The IPPS, in collaboration with the Government of South Africa and the South African Medical Research Council, organized the event. The Foundation's president participated in a panel on strengthening Public-Private...
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Data de publicação: 07/02/2025 - 16:28
A study by the National School of Public Health (Ensp/Fiocruz), carried out in partnership with the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health) and the London School of Economics and Political Science, revealed a high rate of self-reported long COVID in the city of Rio de Janeiro, as well as a high prevalence of symptoms associated with the post-COVID syndrome, such as fatigue, joint pain and cognitive impairment. The data also shows that,...
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Data de publicação: 04/02/2025 - 11:28
Researchers from Fiocruz Minas and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) have just completed another phase of the study assessing the living conditions, health status, and demands on healthcare services of the population in Brumadinho, following the disaster caused by the collapse of the Vale mining company's dam, which marked its sixth anniversary on January 25th. The children aged 0 to 6 years assessed presented results that...
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Data de publicação: 04/02/2025 - 11:00
A group of Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz collaborators carried out a study on golden-headed lion tamarins at the Primatology Center in the state of Rio de Janeiro to check the safety and immunogenicity of different yellow fever vaccines. Neotropical monkeys are severely affected by yellow fever and the disease could have a devastating impact for the endangered golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus chrysomelas) of the same genus as the animals studied in...
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Data de publicação: 31/01/2025 - 11:21
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has published a collection of studies selected by its editors as the most notable and impactful of 2024 in clinical medicine. Among the 14 selected is the work Live, Attenuated, Tetravalent Butantan-Dengue Vaccine in Children and Adults, in which two researchers from Fiocruz Bahia were involved, Aldina Barral and Viviane Boaventura.
Butantan-Dengue (Butantan-DV) is an experimental, single-dose,...
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Data de publicação: 30/01/2025 - 13:17
The first generation of children affected by the microcephaly outbreak in 2015 are now around ten years old. Only a minority of these children survived their first year of life. Behind the condition that determines the lives of so many Brazilian children is the set of sequelae of Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS), a disease that hinders the size of the head and the formation of neurons. They are those most vulnerable to serious complications,...
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Data de publicação: 22/01/2025 - 11:10
Does receiving Bolsa Família (income transfer program) reduce the risk of death? Yes, at least for specific causes. A study recently published in PLOS Medicine tested the association between access to the Bolsa Família Program (PBF) and mortality risk among patients hospitalized with any psychiatric disorder. The result? The program has not only reduced mortality rates among people hospitalized with mental disorders but could also...
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Data de publicação: 15/01/2025 - 14:52
The International Symposium on Immunobiologicals (ISI) invites researchers from around the world to register for free and submit their scientific papers and abstracts for the 9th edition of the event, which will take place from May 7 to 9, 2025, at the Windsor Barra Hotel in Rio de Janeiro. Registration and submission will be open from January 6 to March 7, 2025.
The International Symposium on Immunobiologicals is a renowned global scientific...
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