Data de publicação: 17/05/2024 - 16:07
Published in the journal PLOS Global Public Health, a study by Fiocruz researchers pointed out that mortality trends in Brazil, even excluding deaths from COVID-19, increased between 2020 and 2022. The investigation into possible causes found that the average number of deaths from diabetes mellitus and hypertension was higher than the global rates, when comparing mortality data between 2015 and 2019 and 2020 and 2022.
The study was...
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Data de publicação: 03/04/2024 - 16:03
The Institute of Technology on Immunobiologicals (Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz) and the pharmaceutical company Sanofi signed a Memorandum of Understanding last Wednesday (3/27) that reaffirms their mutual interest in establishing further collaborations in the field of immunization. In January this year, the institutions signed a technology transfer agreement for the domestic production of the acellular hexavalent vaccine. The immunizer offers...
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Data de publicação: 01/04/2024 - 14:36
Last week, on a trip to China, Fiocruz was able to strengthen partnerships and prospect future cooperation in health technology and innovation, especially in the areas of vaccines, biologicals and advanced therapies. The Foundation's vice president for Health Production and Innovation, Marco Krieger, and the director of the Immunobiological Technology Institute (Bio-Manguinhos), Maurício Zuma, were in the Asian country to visit health...
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Data de publicação: 14/05/2024 - 16:20
On Thursday (5/2), Fiocruz received a delegation from the Global Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence of the World Health Organization (WHO) for a meeting on the current stage and next steps of the bilateral cooperation signed between the institutions last year. The Vice President of Research and Biological Collections (VPPCB/Fiocruz), Maria de Lourdes Oliveira, received the delegation, led by the Unit Head of Insights and Analytics (IAA...
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Data de publicação: 17/05/2024 - 08:58
To consider a newborn healthy, it is checked the height, weight and gestational age it reached before birth. However, these parameters can be affected by the presence of other factors during pregnancy. Now, a new study by a research team from the Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (Cidacs/Fiocruz Bahia) shows that the occurrence of gestational syphilis also affects the health of newborns and increases the likelihood that the...
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Data de publicação: 17/05/2024 - 09:19
Inaugurated this Friday (5/17), the Pasteur Fiocruz Center on Immunology and Immunotherapy, located at Fiocruz Ceará, brings together scientists from the Institut Pasteur and Fiocruz, two members of the Pasteur Network, to develop an integrative approach towards immunotherapies applied to both infectious and non-communicable diseases. This scientific cooperation aims to accelerate research in immunology and immunotherapy at regional,...
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Data de publicação: 27/03/2024 - 11:25
With international partners, Fiocruz has launched a research project that aims to contribute to the health of populations and ecosystems in the Amazon and East Africa in the face of climate change and environmental degradation. The aim is to establish information systems to support local communities in border areas in assessing the impacts of environmental transformations on their well-being and in developing actions to prevent, adapt to and...
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Data de publicação: 26/03/2024 - 15:34
A survey carried out by Fiocruz/Unifase's Observatory of Children's Health (Observa Infância) reveals that dengue fever has hit children up to the age of 5 hardest in 2024. The analysis shows that adolescents between the ages of 10 and 14 have the highest number of cases recorded this year, while children under the age of 5 have the highest fatality rates, followed by those between the ages of 5 and 9. Observa Infância...
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Data de publicação: 07/05/2024 - 17:09
The Wolbachia Method, patented by the World Mosquito Program (WMP) and conducted in Brazil by Fiocruz, with funding from the Ministry of Health, is experiencing a moment of expansion in the country: the program in Joinville (SC), Foz do Iguaçu (PR) and Londrina (PR) enters a new phase with community engagement work, and the biofactory in Rio de Janeiro receives state-of-the-art equipment to scale up its production of Wolbito mosquitoes....
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Data de publicação: 26/03/2024 - 09:20
Fiocruz, a foundation from the Brazilian government's Ministry of Health, and Caring Cross, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to accelerating the development of advanced medicines and enabling access to advanced medicinal cures for all patients, everywhere, today announced a collaboration to develop local manufacturing of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell and stem cell gene therapies for oncology, infectious, and genetic...
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Data de publicação: 22/03/2024 - 16:38
The constant heat waves caused by climate change, combined with incomplete urbanization and the large circulation of people in certain areas, are influencing the spread of the dengue fever into the hinterlands of the country. This is revealed by the study Climate change, thermal anomalies, and the recent progression of dengue in Brazil, published on Nature's Scientific Reports portal. The text was written by researcher Christovam Barcellos,...
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Data de publicação: 03/05/2024 - 14:38
The president of Fiocruz, Mario Moreira, visited Spain and Portugal between April 18th and 24th, seeking to deepen institutional relations in areas considered strategic with Fiocruz's traditional partners. The visits to the two countries took place shortly after Fiocruz's mission to the United States.
Visit of the Fiocruz delegation to the Nova Medical School campus, in Lisbon (photo: publicity)
"The meetings in Spain and...
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Data de publicação: 30/04/2024 - 16:39
President of Fiocruz, Mario Moreira led a mission to the United States between April 15 and 17 seeking to strengthen collaborative ties and promote significant advances with partners in priority areas for the institution. Also taking part in the mission were the vice president of Health Production and Innovation, Marco Aurélio Krieger, the director of the Immunobiological Technology Institute (Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz), Maurício Zuma...
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Data de publicação: 17/05/2024 - 08:49
The president of Fiocruz, Mario Moreira, took part in the signing ceremony of the new program document of the Brazil-UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) Partnership for the Promotion of Trilateral South-South Cooperation (2024-2028) last Thursday afternoon (5/9). The document was put together in a participatory way, with the support of the Brazilian cooperating institutions involved in the initiative and the common themes of UNFPA and the...
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Data de publicação: 16/05/2024 - 13:57
In this week dedicated to the donation of human milk, the series Healthier Together – A Path to a Better World, developed in consultation with the WHO Foundation and produced for them by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions and presented by Fiocruz, has one of its films dedicated to the Global Network of Human Milk Banks, an initiative that has the Brazilian Foundation involved in its creation and expansion. In mini-documentary style,...
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Data de publicação: 20/03/2024 - 15:58
In an opinion article – Heat waves, climate crisis and adaptation challenges in the global south metropolises –, published on March 8 in the international open access publisher PLOS, researcher Christovam Barcellos, from Fiocruz, warns of the challenges faced in adapting the global south metropolises to climate change, especially heat waves, pointing out that, in these areas, issues such as the supply of drinking water, electricity...
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Data de publicação: 30/04/2024 - 10:07
A study published in the British journal The Lancet analyzes fertility rates around the world and points out that, by the year 2100, only 6 (3%) out of 204 countries will have sustainable levels of births for sustainable population replacement. The paper analyzes data from 1950 to 2021 and projects for 2050 and 2100. The research is the result of a partnership between an international study group called Global Burden of Diseases. The team...
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Data de publicação: 10/05/2024 - 16:47
Fiocruz, through its Fundraising Office, is joining forces with companies and civil society to support families victims of heavy rains in Rio Grande do Sul, a Brazilian state. First, the solidarity network will offer humanitarian aid, with the delivery of water, hygiene kits and other necessary supplies.
Donations will be directed to active social organizations and Foundation partners in the state. To make your donation, ...
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Data de publicação: 20/03/2024 - 15:20
Fiocruz has taken another step forward on the road to cooperation with Malaysia. Visiting the country two weeks ago for the Dengue Alliance meeting, the Foundation's Vice President of Production and Innovation in Health, Marco Krieger, took part in various activities in which he discussed possibilities for cooperation, the Health Industrial Complex, the mRNA vaccine and innovation in health. During the trip, it was planned to sign a...
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Data de publicação: 20/03/2024 - 10:56
Leonardo Bastos, a researcher at the Scientific Computation Program of Fiocruz (PROCC/Fiocruz), won the "Study UK Alumni Awards 2024" on February 28th from the British Council organisation in Brasília. According to the British Council's Director of Cultural Engagement, Diana Daste, "in 2024, the tenth edition of the Study UK Alumni Awards received a total of 1,450 entries from alumni from nearly 100 countries." In...
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Data de publicação: 14/03/2024 - 09:43
Jack A. Tuszynski, professor at the University of Alberta in Canada and the Polytechnic Institute of Turin, in Italy, will give an online research seminar on computational modeling applied to health on March 20, at 2 pm (Brasília time). Entitled Measuring and modeling electro conductive and quantum properties of cytoskeletal protein filaments exposed to electromagnetic fields, the seminar will bring a physics perspective to intracellular...
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Data de publicação: 25/04/2024 - 15:30
A study led by the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) in partnership with British institutions opens the door to the development of new treatments for schistosomiasis. The disease affects 200 million people in 78 countries, including Brazil. It also belongs to the group of neglected diseases, which are associated with poverty and receive low investment in prevention, diagnosis and treatment from the pharmaceutical industry and public policies...
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Data de publicação: 12/03/2024 - 11:53
The president of Fiocruz, Mario Moreira, and the Spanish ambassador to Brazil, Mar Fernández-Palacios Carmona, signed, last Wednesday (3/6), a memorandum of understanding between the Foundation and the Carlos III Health Institute. The agreement was signed in the presence of president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and minister Nísia Trindade Lima as part of a state visit by Spanish president Pedro Sánchez....
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