Data de publicação: 06/04/2021 - 09:24
With the start of Oxford/AstraZeneca-Fiocruz production vaccine on national territory, and the batches delivery to the Ministry of Health, this stage is beginning to give its first results to Brazilian society. Still this year, the country will have a vaccine produced entirely in Brazil and already in this first semester the manufacture of the first batches of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) will start, which should be available to...
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Data de publicação: 01/04/2021 - 10:02
The Bulletin of the Fiocruz Covid-19 Observatory, released on March 26, shows that the country is facing the collapse of the health system. At the same time, the pandemic is now taking up new shapes, affecting younger age groups: 30 to 39 years old, 40 to 49, and 50 to 59. In such a scenario, researchers defend the adoption of measures in two interconnected groups.
The first group includes urgent measures that involve the containment of the...
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Data de publicação: 30/03/2021 - 17:26
This March 2021, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) designated the National Institute for Women's, Children's and Adolescent Health Fernandes Figueira (IFF/Fiocruz) as a PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center to strengthen Human Milk Banks. The designation as a Collaborating Center will be valid for a four years period, starting on March 3, 2021, and can be renewed by redesignation.
The designation as...
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Data de publicação: 30/03/2021 - 17:10
Executive:
Viviane Santos de Oliveira Veiga
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ)
Maria Luiza Machado Campos
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
João Luiz Rebelo Moreira
University of Twente (International Representative)
Patricia Corrêa Henning
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos
VODAN IN consultant
Researchers:
Sergio...
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Data de publicação: 30/03/2021 - 17:01
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)
Carlos Roberto Lyra da Silva - Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)
Gaffree Guinle Hospital
Romero de Melo Silva - Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)
Sérgio Luis Teixeira de Aquino - Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)
Jorge da Cunha Barbosa Leite - Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de...
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Data de publicação: 30/03/2021 - 16:47
The VODAN Brazil Implementation Network was established through the efforts of teams from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and São José Municipal Hospital. The Vodan Brazil aims to provide an infrastructure capable of enabling health units to collect and manage medical data of patients infected with COVID-19....
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Data de publicação: 26/03/2021 - 14:14
Autoras: Gabriela Lotta, Michelle Fernandez, Denise Pimenta, Clare Wenham.
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Data de publicação: 26/03/2021 - 12:51
Scientists at the Fiocruz Genomics Network have identified important changes in the Spike (S) protein structure of the Sars-CoV-2 virus circulating in Brazil. Eleven gene sequences showed deletions (loss of genetic material) in the initial region of the protein and in four there was some amino acids insertion. The Spike protein is associated with the pathogen's ability to enter human cells and is one of the main targets of the neutralizing...
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Data de publicação: 26/03/2021 - 11:50
Science formulated with collaboration and transparency. On March 17th, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) presented the advances in the implantation of the Institutional Data Repository for Research - Arca Dados, an important element to implement the Policy for Management, Sharing and Opening of Data for Research. The document (approved in September 2020 by the Deliberative Council of Fiocruz and whose Ordinance came into term in December) is...
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Data de publicação: 18/03/2021 - 13:30
The United Kingdom ambassador in Brazil, Peter Wilson, visited the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) on March 5 for a meeting with the president of the institution, Nísia Trindade Lima, and to visit the Immunobiological Technology Institute (Bio-Manguinhos) plant that is producing the Covid-19 Fiocruz vaccine.
Photo: Pedro Paulo Gonçalves
“I greatly admire the work you have you been doing, and we are here to know...
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Data de publicação: 18/03/2021 - 11:31
Edgar Marcelino de Carvalho, a researcher of Fiocruz Bahia, was considered the world’s greatest specialist in cutaneous leishmaniasis by the site Expertscape. The ranking was based on science publications: Carvalho published 84 papers on the subject between 2010 and 2021. The ranking includes the 66 scientists with most papers published on cutaneous leishmaniasis from all over the world and also includes three other researchers of Fiocruz...
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Data de publicação: 18/03/2021 - 10:39
Six years after the National Health Emergency declared by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, Zika is still a public health issue that mobilizes many actors in society. Fiocruz is launching the virtual exhibition Zika: lives affecting lives, produced by the Zika Social Sciences Network and the Oswaldo Cruz House (COC/Fiocruz), through the Museum of Life. The exhibition is the result of collaborative scientific research, produced with intense...
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Data de publicação: 17/03/2021 - 09:46
Faced with the current pandemic scenario, Fiocruz released this Tuesday (March 16), another edition of the Fiocruz COVID-19 Observatory Extraordinary Bulletin. The analysis draws attention to the indicators that point to an extremely critical situation across the country. In the view of the researchers who carry it out, this is the biggest health system collapse in the history of Brazil.
The Bulletin shows that, at the moment, of the...
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Data de publicação: 15/03/2021 - 14:20
On March 11, one year since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the COVID-19 epidemic represented a global pandemic, the new Bulletin of the COVID-19 Observatory Fiocruz highlights that Brazil is among the countries with the worst indicators. The country totals 11,122,429 cases and 268,370 deaths, which corresponds to 9.5% and 10.3% of the global total, respectively, even though the Brazilian population is less than 3% of the world...
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Data de publicação: 15/03/2021 - 11:54
The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa) granted the definitive registration of the COVID-19 Fiocruz vaccine on March 12. Thus, Fiocruz becomes the first holder of a registration of a COVID -19 vaccine produced in the country and adds to its product portfolio the eleventh vaccine to be supplied to the National Immunization Program (PNI). With the registration, the expectation is that Anvisa will authorize the release of the...
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Data de publicação: 12/03/2021 - 11:49
In an extraordinary edition of its Bulletin, the Covid-19 Fiocruz Observatory publishes an updated of the historical series on the occupation of COVID-19 ICU beds for adults in the Brazilian Health System (SUS, in the Portuguese acronym), with data obtained on Monday (8/3). The analysis presents rates verified since July 17th, 2020, and aims to alert to the critical scenario of the country. Check out the full document (in Portuguese)....
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Data de publicação: 10/03/2021 - 18:21
Fiocruz president, Nísia Trindade Lima, participated in a World Health Organization (WHO) discussion on how investing in research on Covid-19 treatments can increase cooperation at national and international levels, on March 3. The discussion table, named Towards a Shared Research Agenda, included in the debate on how to identify knowledge gaps and research priorities for COVID-19 treatments, to incentivize cooperation and...
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Data de publicação: 10/03/2021 - 12:53
Many affluent countries, with the necessary technological capabilities and expertise, entered into the production of Covid-19 vaccines or sought the biopharmaceutical companies to block them for themselves through anticipated buying. It is estimated that as early December 2020, 3.8 billion vaccine doses had been guaranteed to these countries by several producers. If one compares that figure with the 3.2 billion doses, that include the 700...
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Data de publicação: 08/03/2021 - 18:31
In a technical release issued last Thursday (March 3) by the Fiocruz Covid-19 Observatory, researchers warn of the geographical dispersion, in the territory, of “worrying variants” and of their high prevalence in the three Brazilian regions under study (South, South-East and North-East).
The new RT-PCR protocol, developed by Fiocruz Amazônia, was used by Fiocruz diagnostic support units and testing stations...
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Data de publicação: 08/03/2021 - 11:27
When the first Portuguese and Spanish ships moored along the coast of the Americas, microorganisms that caused common disease in Europe, but which had never occurred in American soil, disembarked along with the crews. The causer of visceral leishmaniasis, Leishmania infantum is part of a group of microscopic travelers which, despite the huge differences between the Old and the New World, managed to settle here quite well.
More than...
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Data de publicação: 08/03/2021 - 10:01
A pioneering study used the genomic sequencing of samples of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to assess the resistance of indigenous peoples to anti-tuberculosis drugs. Published on Scientific Reports, a magazine of the Nature group, the research also revealed a high frequency of polymorphisms associated with resistance to the main drugs used in the treatment. The article, titled Identification of a predominant genotype of...
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Data de publicação: 05/03/2021 - 10:44
An important step to understanding the dynamics of arbovirus transmission, such as dengue fever, zika and chikungunya, is to get to know mosquitoes’ ability to get infected and to transmit the viruses that cause these diseases. This characteristic is technically known as vectorial competence. A study by researchers of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) showed that the Aedes aegypti has low vectorial competence for the zika virus when...
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Data de publicação: 05/03/2021 - 10:05
A study of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) was received the Small Grants award of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH). The research was made by post-doctorate student Viviane de Almeida Bastos, under the supervision of researchers Ana Gisele Ferreira and Richard Hemmi Valente, of the IOC’s Toxicology Laboratory, and investigates natural inhibitors of snake toxins, isolated from South American opossum...
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Data de publicação: 03/03/2021 - 09:44
In one more initiative of articulation for teaching, Fiocruz shares its capacity and resources with international partners. From March 22nd, 40 students of the Master's in Public Health, from the Faculty of Social Sciences, University Lúrio (Unilúrio), in Mozambique (Africa) will attend the course Scientific Research Methodology - already offered in a transversal way for different Foundation courses. The classes will be...
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