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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 29/04/2024 - 12:15
Pasteur Fiocruz Center for Immunology and Immunotherapy
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Data de publicação: 29/04/2024 - 12:15
The Center's activities include organizing courses and other innovative bilateral and multilateral academic activities in the areas of expertise covered by the researchers involved in the cooperation.
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Data de publicação: 29/04/2024 - 12:14
The Pasteur-Fiocruz Center for Immunology and Immunotherapy works in three priority scientific areas: cancer, infectious and neglected diseases, and autoimmune, neurodegenerative and inflammatory diseases.
Research groups and associated projects:
1) Structural computational biology (João Hermínio Martins da Silva Sena).
Associated projects:
- Development of inhibitors for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases...
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Data de publicação: 29/04/2024 - 12:14
The Pasteur Fiocruz Center on Immunology and Immunotherapy brings together scientists from the Institut Pasteur and Fiocruz to develop integrative approaches to improve the treatment of infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, and non-communicable diseases, such as cancer, using immunotherapies, considered an important public health strategy.
Immunotherapy is a treatment that dynamically modulates the immune system, promoting the body's...
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Data de publicação: 29/04/2024 - 12:13
The Pasteur Fiocruz Center on Immunology and Immunotherapy is a collaborative project between the Institut Pasteur and Fiocruz that brings together researchers from the institutions with an integrative approach to improving the treatment of infectious and non-communicable diseases through immunotherapy.
Located at Fiocruz Ceará, in Eusébio, in the Metropolitan Region of Fortaleza, the Center has a laboratory structure and...
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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: 22/04/2024 - 16:10
Fiocruz has taken another important step towards strengthening and implementing institutional initiatives and policies in favor of ethnic-racial and gender equity, diversity and inclusion. On Tuesday and Wednesday (April 11th and 12th, 2023), the Foundation launched the Ethnic-Racial and Gender Equity Policy and presented to the internal community the new Coordination of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Affirmative Policies (Cedipa), established...
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Data de publicação: 16/04/2024 - 15:33
The Laboratory of Respiratory Viruses, Exanthematics, Enteroviruses and Viral Emergencies of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) is part of a new cooperation network of the World Health Organization (WHO) to monitor the different types of coronavirus. Called CoViNet, the initiative is an offshoot of the network of reference laboratories set up by WHO at the start of the public health emergency caused by Sars-CoV-2. The group brings together...
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Data de publicação: 16/04/2024 - 15:12
Fiocruz hosted, from April 8th to 12th, the Fiocruz-Pasteur Network International Course on bioproduction, intellectual property and technology transfer. In the auditorium of the Rocha Lima Pavilion, on the Manguinhos Campus in Rio de Janeiro, 11 foreign students and 7 students from different units of the Foundation discussed topics such as research, development, production, quality control, clinical studies, regulatory issues and the...
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Data de publicação: 16/04/2024 - 14:30
Fiocruz Pernambuco has created a 100% national ingredient to be added to the rapid screening test for the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL). The product can be used for both the human and canine populations, being the first with this dual efficacy. The product has already been assessed in laboratories and will soon be implemented in the field. VL is an infectious disease transmitted by the drain fly that can affect both humans and animals...
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Data de publicação: 12/04/2024 - 11:02
During dengue epidemics, the resulting deaths, with rare exceptions, are avoidable. Dengue does not kill. What kills is the lack of care and attention to the signs of worsening that can appear, especially when the fever disappears. This neglected moment leads to avoidable serious cases and deaths.
Most of the avoidable deaths from dengue are the result of several errors, three of which stand out. The first is when patients or their families...
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Data de publicação: 11/04/2024 - 11:14
A survey of indigenous Yanomami people, from the Ninam subgroup, from nine villages located in Roraima, showed that all participants were contaminated by mercury. The highest levels of exposure were detected in indigenous people living in the villages closest to the illegal gold mines. The study Impact of Mercury on Protected Areas and Forest Peoples in the Amazon: An Integrated Health-Environment Approach was conducted by the Sergio Arouca...
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Data de publicação: 11/04/2024 - 10:02
In front of representatives from 24 countries, Fiocruz opened on 4/3, and hosted until 4/5, the Second Global Workshop for countries presenting Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs), part of a series of three meetings organized by the United Nations to draw up proposals to be taken to the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in July. This is the first time the workshop has been held in Latin America, and its opening was...
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