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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Data de publicação: 14/01/2025 - 10:57
The Technical-Scientific Monitoring Committee of Initiatives Related to COVID-19 Vaccines, composed of an independent group of experts from Fiocruz and outside the institution, issued a critical stance on Monday (January 13) regarding the article Evaluation of post-COVID mortality in cases classified as severe acute respiratory syndrome in Brazil: a longitudinal study for medium and long term, published in December 2024 by the scientific journal...
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Data de publicação: 14/01/2025 - 10:37
Dear Editor,
As an independent and interinstitutional Advisory Committee[i] nominated by the President of Fiocruz during the COVID-19, we are writing to address key issues regarding the recent article by Rodrigues and Andrade[ii], which examined post-vaccination mortality rates after hospitalization by COVID-19. Although the article does not question the importance of vaccines, it presents imprecise and biased claims regarding...
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Data de publicação: 10/01/2025 - 10:28
The Bolsa Família program (PBF, in the Portuguese acronym), one of the largest conditional income transfer programs worldwide, has been responsible for reducing tuberculosis (TB) cases and deaths by more than half among people living in extreme poverty and indigenous groups. This is what is evidenced by a study coordinated by the Institute of Collective Health (ISC/UFBA), the Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (Cidacs/...
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Data de publicação: 03/01/2025 - 10:43
The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, through the Leônidas and Maria Deane Institute (ILMD/Fiocruz Amazônia) and the Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (Cidacs/Fiocruz), together with the University of Glasgow's School of Health & Wellbeing in the United Kingdom, have opened a selection process for proposals from young Brazilian and British PhD holders who wish to participate in the Amazonia BR/UK Workshop. The event...
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Data de publicação: 17/12/2024 - 10:50
Fiocruz, the Sino-Brazilian Infectious Diseases Research and Prevention Center (IDRPC) and the Center of Excellence for Emerging Infectious Diseases (CEEID) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences held in the first weeks of December, in Rio de Janeiro and Manaus, workshops to discuss cooperation in plant and human pathogens, with the theme One Health. The first of the meetings between Brazilian and Chinese scientists took place at the National...
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Data de publicação: 17/12/2024 - 10:07
Fiocruz Pernambuco received this week the dean of Universidade Jean Piaget of Guinea-Bissau, Aladje Baldé, for an institutional visit that symbolized the beginning of a cooperative relationship between the two institutions. The meeting included the signing of a mutual collaboration agreement on scientific research and training.
Aladje Baldé was received by the director of Fiocruz Pernambuco, Pedro Miguel dos Santos, and by...
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Data de publicação: 13/12/2024 - 10:41
The international Mosaic project has concluded its first activities in the two study areas located on the Amazon. From October 20 to November 2, researchers visited the triple border between Brazil, Colombia and Peru and the binational border between Brazil and French Guiana. Scientists from France, Portugal, Poland, Kenya, Colombia, Peru and Brazil took part in different stages of the expedition. Entitled Multi-site application of open science...
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Data de publicação: 12/12/2024 - 15:44
The pneumologist and researcher at the National School of Public Health Sergio Arouca (ENSP/Fiocruz), Margareth Dalcolmo, was featured in the profile titled Margareth Dalcolmo: TB expert and Brazil’s "face of COVID-19", published in the scientific journal The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
The article narrates how the researcher became a physician, recalling her admission to the Medical School of Santa Casa de Misericó...
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Data de publicação: 09/12/2024 - 10:41
The Fiocruz Global Health Center (Cris/Fiocruz) - PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center on Global Health Diplomacy and South-South Cooperation - is open for applications for the Course on Current Affairs in Global Health and Health Diplomacy 2025. Higher education professionals and students in the areas of health, diplomacy and international relations, human sciences, social, and the like, as well as civil society leaders who work or wish to work with...
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Data de publicação: 04/12/2024 - 16:25
The G20 Social, held at the Olympic Boulevard in Rio de Janeiro from November 14th to 16th, 2024, brought together global and national players to discuss and propose solutions to the most pressing challenges facing contemporary society. The event, which recorded more than 33,000 participants throughout the days, focused on issues related to sustainability, social equity, health and climate change, seeking to connect the agendas of the Paris...
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Data de publicação: 03/12/2024 - 11:19
Fiocruz Bahia will carry out the first Fiocruz clinical trial of advanced therapies (with the individual's own stem cells) approved by the National Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa), with the aim of testing a treatment for paraplegic patients who have suffered spinal cord trauma.
Advanced therapies are cell, gene and tissue bioengineering therapies, and are considered a new category of drugs by Anvisa. The trial, coordinated by Fiocruz...
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Data de publicação: 03/12/2024 - 10:45
Milena Soares, a researcher at Fiocruz Bahia, was elected a member of The World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries (TWAS) in the area of Medical and Health Sciences. The induction ceremony, during which the newly elected members are introduced to the Academy, will be held at the next TWAS General Conference.
"It is an honor to be part of an academy that brings together researchers dedicated...
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Data de publicação: 29/11/2024 - 11:51
During the Belgian Economic Mission to Brazil, a historic memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the Brazilian Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) through its Institute of Technology on Immunobiologicals (Bio-Manguinhos), and the Belgian companies Quantoom Biosciences S.A. and Univercells S.A. in the presence of Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid of Belgium. This MoU represents a commitment to advance the development of RNA-based...
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Data de publicação: 28/11/2024 - 14:26
"A considerable part of neonatal deaths and negative outcomes among newborns could be avoided if there were no racial inequalities in Brazil". This is what the research team at the Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (Cidacs/Fiocruz Bahia) says. Published in the journal The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, the study investigates the consequences of racism suffered by pregnant women on their children and says that, if...
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Data de publicação: 28/11/2024 - 13:03
In a study on heat-related deaths in urban areas in Brazil, researchers from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), the Fiocruz Climate and Health Observatory and the University of Lisbon showed that the increase in mortality is greater among black and brown people than among white people. "There are still some researchers who question environmental racism, but we already have evidence that, yes, the most vulnerable populations...
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Data de publicação: 28/11/2024 - 11:22
Fiocruz's Antarctic Program, Fioantar, embarked on a new – and unprecedented – phase last Wednesday (11/20). Four researchers traveled to the frozen continent, where they will be camped for 45 days. As has been the case throughout the program, which is in its second call for proposals, the scientists' aim is to search for new pathogens, fungi, bacteria and microorganisms that could pose a threat to global human health. This...
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Data de publicação: 27/11/2024 - 13:39
"We have spent at least five years having to start our presentations by explaining that climate change does exist." The reminder comes from researcher Renata Gracie, a member of the Climate and Health Observatory, which turns 15 in 2024. The speech refers to a time (not so long ago) when changes in the planet's climate were not yet viewed with the necessary urgency, but the Observatory was already up and running.
Linked to the...
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Data de publicação: 25/11/2024 - 14:12
Increased hospitalizations and mortality from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Spread of vector-borne diseases. Food insecurity and malnutrition. Mental health issues. These are some of the health impacts of the climate emergency that can already be observed, says Sandra Hacon, a researcher at the Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (Ensp/Fiocruz). The professor also lists a series of signs and symptoms associated, for example...
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