Data de publicação: 03/12/2020 - 14:51
A study published in the Nutrients scientific journal shows that teenagers of five countries, including Brazil, have changed their consumption of fried foods, sweet foods, fruits, and vegetables during the social isolation prescribed to reduce Covid-19 transmission. The research, which reveals an increased consumption of fruits and vegetables during social distancing, has also shown higher ingestion of sweets and fried foods among teenagers....
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Data de publicação: 03/12/2020 - 13:47
The analysis of a historical series of 16 years (2004 to 2019) of the incidence of dengue fever in 20 countries of Central and South America has concluded that the dynamic of dengue fever occurrence in the region was changed after zika virus epidemics, possibly due to crossed immunity between the two virus, that belongs to the same family. In the study, researchers analyzed data of notified cases suspected of dengue fever, reported to the...
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Data de publicação: 02/12/2020 - 16:46
In the municipalities of Itaituba and Tairão, in the state of Pará, along the Tapajós River, the munduruku indigenous population is suffering from mercury widely used in mining and panning activities. A study carried out by Fiocruz in a partnership with WWF-Brasil shows that all participants of the research are affected by the contaminant. Six out of every 10 participants presented mercury levels above safe thresholds: about...
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Data de publicação: 02/12/2020 - 16:21
The technology of diagnostic kit for bacterial meningitis using real-time HRM PCR, coordinated by researcher Ivano de Filippis, of the National Institute for Quality Control in Health (INCQS/Fiocruz), was included in the institution’s Innovation Portfolio. The portfolio contains the innovative results generated by the Foundation. The new kit is being developed with the goal of cutting down costs of molecular diagnosis of bacterial...
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Data de publicação: 01/12/2020 - 18:03
Autores: Alexandra Solomon, Rosemary Morgan, Clare Wenham, Julia Smith, Denise Nacif Pimenta, Kate Hawkins, Valerie Mueller. Asha Herten-Crabb.
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Data de publicação: 27/11/2020 - 18:21
A epidemia de COVID-19 através de uma lente de gênero: e se uma abordagem de gênero tivesse sido aplicada para informar as medidas de saúde pública para combater a pandemia de COVID-19? (em inglês)
Autres: CRISTINA ENGUITA-FERNANDEZ, ELENA MARBAN CASTRO , OLIVIA MANDERS , LAUREN MAXWELL e GUSTAVO CORREA MATTA.
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Data de publicação: 23/11/2020 - 14:53
The Journal Plos Biology has published the database of a study that analyzed the ranking of scientists worldwide. The ranking lists the 100 thousand most influential scientists in the world, according to databases used up to 2019. The survey was carried out by a team of the University of Standford (USA), led by Greek-American physician and scientist John Ioannidis, with several contributions in the field of medicine, especially in...
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Data de publicação: 23/11/2020 - 14:04
Nine months after the appearance of the first case of Covid-19 in the state of Amazonas, researchers of the Leônidas & Maria Deane Institute (ILMD/Fiocruz Amazonia) have already sequenced 79 genomes of the Sars-CoV-2, using samples obtained from 18 of the state’s municipalities. The research is a partnership with the Health Surveillance Foundation of Amazonas (FVS/AM), by means of the Central Laboratory of Public Health (Lacen-AM...
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Data de publicação: 17/11/2020 - 10:45
Large-scale fires in the Amazon and Pantanal regions, which have reached record levels in 2020, tend to worsen the Covid-19 epidemic scenario in these regions, which include municipalities usually lacking in high-complexity hospital infrastructure as well as basic healthcare services. These areas are also home to populations with higher social vulnerability. According to data from the National Institute of Spatial Research (Inpe), in the...
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Data de publicação: 16/11/2020 - 16:24
The 2020 Dr. Lee Jong-wook Public Health award was given to the coordinator of the Global Network of Human Milk Banks (rBLH in the Brazilian Portuguese abbreviation) and researcher of the Fernandes Figueira National Institute for the Health of Women, Children, and Adolescents (IFF/Fiocruz), João Aprígio Guerra de Almeida, on November 13th in a remote ceremony during the Plenary Session of the 73rd World Health Assembly. The award...
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Data de publicação: 11/11/2020 - 15:41
WORKSHOP "COOPERATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY PARIS 8, THE UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA (CENTER FOR FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY - CEF AND CENTER FOR SOCIAL STUDIES - CES) AND THE UNIVERSITY NOVA DE LISBOA, IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVE UNIVERSITY PROJECT - LUCI".
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Data de publicação: 10/11/2020 - 20:15
Beatriz C. Thomé & Gustavo C. Matta & Sérgio T. A. Rego. Bioethical Inquiry. DOI:10.1007/s11673-020-10023-w
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Data de publicação: 10/11/2020 - 20:11
Ana Lucia de M Pontes e Ricardo Ventura Santos. Health Policy and Planning, 35, 2020, i107–i114. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czaa098.
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Data de publicação: 09/11/2020 - 16:16
Fiocruz attended the Brazil Africa Forum, which this year focused on the challenges brought by the pandemic. With the intention of strengthening the relations between Brazil and Africa, the Forum brings together top-level authorities and specialists to discuss global health, national health systems, economic recovery, commerce and finance, international cooperation, science and technology, vulnerable communities, poverty and hunger, regional...
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Data de publicação: 09/11/2020 - 13:00
The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) was chosen to preside the Latin American Alliance for Global Health (Alasag) at the 6th Latin American and Caribbean Global Health Congress, which took place online on October 28th and 29th. Fiocruz was the host of the meeting, whose central theme this year was Sustainable Development and Global Health: The Challenges of Inequality in the Region, and was attended by about 650 enrolled participants from more...
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Data de publicação: 06/11/2020 - 15:55
Lipid droplets are the main organelles of lipid storage and they play an important role in the organism of living beings. Common parasites, such as bacteria, viruses and protozoans, induce and target these structures during their life cycles. Scientists are well aware that lipid droplets support infection by supplying invaders with substrates for their survival or growth. However, studies show that the host’s immune responses have co-...
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Data de publicação: 06/11/2020 - 12:57
Pope Francis has sent a message praising and thanking Fiocruz and its staff for its accomplishments. His blessing was sent as a response to an invitation for him to send a message on the occasion of the Fratelli Tutti seminar: The global social message of Pope Francis, promoted by the Global Health Center of Fiocruz (Cris/Fiocruz), on November 3rd.
"At this moment when Brazil, along with the rest of the world, faces the Covid-19 pandemic...
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Data de publicação: 06/11/2020 - 10:35
To mark the six months of Covid-19 in Brazil, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) has published a special edition of its Covid-19 Observatory Bulletin with an assessment of the pandemic that has been having effects on the health of populations and challenging science all over the world. Made by a multidisciplinary team of researchers of the Foundation, the investigation includes the main aspects related to Covid-19, such as social, economic,...
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Data de publicação: 03/11/2020 - 15:45
On October 26th the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) sent to the External Commission of the House of Representatives for the Fight Against Covid-19 the Technological Order Agreement signed with AstraZeneca for the production of a Covid-19 vaccine. Although the contract contains classified information, common in contracts of this nature and classified according to Brazilian law, the document was sent to the Commission in its full version...
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Data de publicação: 03/11/2020 - 14:46
Symptoms of anxiety and depression affect 47.3% of essential workers during the Covid-19 pandemic, in Brazil and in Spain. More than half of them - and 27.4% of the total of people interviewed - suffer from both anxiety and depression simultaneously. In addition, 44.3% report alcohol abuse; 42.9% report changes in their sleep habits; and 30.9% were diagnosed with or were treated for mental illness in the year prior to a survey coordinated by...
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Data de publicação: 26/10/2020 - 15:43
Research by Fiocruz Pernambuco, in collaboration with the Colorado State University (CSU), USA, has found scientific evidence of the importance of sexual transmission of the virus in the zika epidemic in Pernambuco. This is the first Brazilian study to reach this conclusion, and the second worldwide to show that sexual transmission of the zika virus played a much more significant role in the epidemic than what was initially thought. The first...
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Data de publicação: 26/10/2020 - 14:33
Two projects with the participation of Fiocruz will be receiving financial support from the United Kingdom, after being acknowledged by the Global Effort on Covid-19 (GECO) Health Research. The call sought research projects that focused on offering responses to the multiple health consequences of the pandemic in low- and medium-income rate countries. Announced on October 10, the GECO is financed by two British research institutions, the National...
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Data de publicação: 22/10/2020 - 17:30
The fires that have been hitting the Pantanal region for weeks is a threat not only to local fauna and flora but also to the human health of local populations, especially firefighters and nearby communities. In September, the number of fires in that biome hit a historical high. In addition to the immediate effects of fire and smoke, the loss of biodiversity and the drop of resources for the surviving species may cause animals to flee to unburnt...
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