Data de publicação: 17/11/2022 - 13:52
The Fiocruz president, Nísia Trindade Lima, and researchers Lucia Souto, Maria do Socorro de Souza and José Gomes Temporão were appointed, this Wednesday (November 16th), to the Health Technical Group in the transition team of the elected President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The announcement was made by the vice-president-elect and coordinator of the government transition, Geraldo Alckmin, at the...
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Data de publicação: 16/11/2022 - 15:13
An article published in Nature magazine includes a list of 57 recommendations with a high degree of consensus amongst experts to end the threat to public health represented by COVID-19. The work was drawn up by a panel consisting of 386 scientists from 112 countries.
Led by the Barcelona Global Health Institute (ISGlobal), the study boasts the participation of ten Brazilian scientists, of which five are from Fiocruz (Mauricio Barreto, Tania...
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Data de publicação: 08/11/2022 - 12:13
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the New Partnerships Initiative, Expanding Health Partnerships (NPI EXPAND), SITAWI (Finance for Good) and the Leônidas & Maria Deane Institute (ILMD/Fiocruz Amazônia) partnered to support the Response to COVID-19 in the Brazilian Amazon Region. The Response to COVID-19 in the Brazilian Amazon - Phase 2 is an initiative that involves civil society organizations in...
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Data de publicação: 31/10/2022 - 15:28
An unpublished study led by Fiocruz Amazônia evaluated the excess maternal deaths in Brazil during the first 15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Epidemiologist Jesem Orellana, of the Leônidas and Maria Deane Institute (ILMD/Fiocruz Amazônia), together with researchers from Brazilian, Colombian and North-American universities, showed the very worrying increase in maternal deaths in Brazil, especially during the trimester from...
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Data de publicação: 31/10/2022 - 13:51
Last Monday (24 October), Nísia Trindade Lima, president of Fiocruz, was granted the official certificate of the 2022 Brazilian Women Making a Difference Award. The award is granted by the US embassy and consulates in Brazil, as acknowledgement to relevant women all over the country. The certificate was handed to Lima by Mark Carr, cultural attaché of the United States Consulate in Rio de Janeiro, who visited the Foundation in the...
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Data de publicação: 27/10/2022 - 14:40
A study by researchers from Fiocruz and from Estácio University shows a 19% excess of deaths in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 in the country. The group of infectious and parasitic diseases was the one that stood out the most from among the defined causes of death. The goal of the analysis was to estimate excess mortality in Brazil and in the states during that period, assuming it was different for each group of causes of death...
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Data de publicação: 11/10/2022 - 15:31
To achieve more effective and equitable results in terms of drug policy, it must be seen from a perspective of gender and of region. Once we look at these women, we must still understand who they are, in their diversity. This was one of the points discussed at the Regional Meeting of Combined HIV Prevention and healthcare lines for women who use drugs, which took place last Monday and Tuesday (September 26 and 27) at the Fernandes Figueira...
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Data de publicação: 11/10/2022 - 15:06
Published in the Journal of Molecular Cell Biology, a Fiocruz study proves that Apixaban, an oral anticoagulant, effectively inhibits the replication of the Sars-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19. This type of drug had already been recommended to prevent high levels of D-dimer, the final product of the coagulation cascade and directly related to severe COVID-19. Fiocruz researchers, however, discovered that the drug also has an antiviral...
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Data de publicação: 10/10/2022 - 16:55
SpiN-TEC, a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Fiocruz Minas and by the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), can begin to be tested in humans. Last Monday (October 3), the Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) authorized the beginning of the so-called clinical trials. From now on, researchers can move on to the step that evaluates the safety and the immune response generated by the vaccine.
In this new phase, the immunizer will be...
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Data de publicação: 06/10/2022 - 11:07
In people who received two doses of the inactivated Coronavac vaccine, an mRNA boost offers considerably better protection against mild and severe COVID-19 than a boost with the same vaccine, according to a large observational study performed in Brazil and co-led by Fiocruz and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an institution supported by “La Caixa” Foundation. These findings, published in Nature Communications,...
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Data de publicação: 26/09/2022 - 11:04
Social and environmental determinants of health are the main investigation subject of a vast research program led by the Centre for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (Cidacs/Fiocruz Bahia) together with researchers from Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Ecuador. Brazilian and European investigators had already been dedicated to studies that evaluate the impacts of public policies on social inequalities in health in Brazil since 2017,...
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Data de publicação: 23/09/2022 - 15:58
Between January and August 2019, sixteen indigenous children died in Alto do Rio Purus, in the state of Acre. The youngest was only a one-month-old baby. All died of diarrhea. These cases are worthy of notice and science show that it is not a temporary crisis. We are talking about a chronic condition caused by the living and health conditions of indigenous children in Brazil. According to an article published in the October issue of The Lancet...
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Data de publicação: 06/09/2022 - 15:12
The "Letter to Candidates for the Presidency and Society" aims to contribute to the electoral debate, based on ten guidelines, which summarize a set of proposals for fields directly related to Brazilians' health and the country's development
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Data de publicação: 31/08/2022 - 17:06
Image obtained by researchers at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) shows the moment in which a cell undergoes a degeneration process after infection by the monkeypox virus.
Cell alteration caused by viral infection (photo: Milene Dias Miranda, IOC/Fiocruz)
To capture the cytopathic effect in monolayer, as it is called scientifically, inoculation of the clinical sample from an infected patient into Vero lineage cells, a model often...
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Data de publicação: 30/08/2022 - 11:43
By analyzing the data of the beginning of the vaccination against COVID-19 in Brazil, in 2021, a study published on Wednesday (August 17th) in The Lancet Regional health - Americas indicates that primary health care was determining to mitigate the inequalities in the vaccine coverage in Brazil. The research was led by a Fiocruz researcher, in a collaboration with researchers from PUC-Rio (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), the...
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Data de publicação: 25/08/2022 - 16:26
This Monday (29/08) begins a new series of four webinars that Fiocruz and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) carry out on infectious diseases. The meetings are the result of a joint effort to promote scientific collaboration, enhance mutual understanding and strengthen national health capacity. Foundation and CAS researchers will discuss microbiology, pandemic prevention and control.
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Data de publicação: 23/08/2022 - 11:29
A study from Fiocruz Minas observed that vitamin B12 regulates inflammatory processes that, during infection by the Sars-CoV-2 virus, are deregulated and lead to the COVID-19 worsening. The research compared blood samples from hospitalized patients with severe and moderate forms of the disease with blood samples from healthy people (volunteers without COVID-19), analyzing the expression of all genes by the defense cells, the leukocytes, in each...
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Data de publicação: 22/08/2022 - 16:13
At a moment when researchers of Fiocruz program in Antarctica are getting ready for their new expeditions by the end of the year, the Foundation was visited, on the last August 15th, by the new secretary of the Interministerial Committee for the Sea Resources (Secirm/ Brazilian Navy), rear admiral Marco Antonio Linhares. Greeted by Fiocruz president, Nísia Trindade de Lima, and by the vice-president of Production and Innovation in Health...
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Data de publicação: 12/08/2022 - 10:34
On this Wednesday (August 10th), the CUIDA Chagas project launches its digital platforms aiming at increasing the visibility of Chagas disease and promoting its activities. Besides the website (www.cuidachagas.org), CUIDA Chagas starts its way on social networks with a Facebook page and Instagram account. The project, coordinated by the Evandro Chagas National Infectiology Institute (INI/Fiocruz), has a partnership with the Instituto Nacional de...
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Data de publicação: 10/08/2022 - 11:18
Researchers of Fiocruz Bahia analyzed blood biomarkers to understand the causes of the worsening of COVID-19 in patients with pre-diabetes mellitus. An association was observed between the levels of the cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) and the development of severe cases of the disease. The study also observed that patients did not present severe sequelae three months after recovering. Led by researchers Natália Machado and Viviane...
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Data de publicação: 04/08/2022 - 12:03
Wednesday (July 27) was the last day of the visit of a delegation from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) to Fiocruz. The group visited the Foundation to discuss the detailed design of the COVID-19 Genomic Surveillance Network Improvement Project. After a series of meetings and visits to Fiocruz laboratories and units, the terms were established in the draft of the meetings, signed on Wednesday. The document is a basis for the...
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Data de publicação: 03/08/2022 - 10:22
A partnership with the World Health Organization that started being drawn in March this year went a step further last Friday (07/29). If four months ago the assistant director general of the WHO’s Division of Intelligence and Surveillance Systems for Emergencies in Health, Chikwe Ihekweazu, brought the proposal that Fiocruz would participate in the Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence that the WHO is assembling in Berlin, this time...
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Data de publicação: 28/07/2022 - 11:49
In 2020 and 2021, COVID-19 killed more than three times as many children aged 6 months to 3 years than the sum of all deaths in this age group over the past decade from diseases that can kill and are preventable by vaccines. The data was collected by the Observatory of Health in Childhood - Observes Childhood (Fiocruz/Unifase) from the Mortality Information System (SIM).
For the analysis, researchers Patricia Boccolini and Cristiano Boccolini...
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Data de publicação: 28/07/2022 - 11:23
The Leonidas & Maria Deane Institute (ILMD/Fiocruz Amazônia), in partnership with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and non-governmental organizations Indigenous Medicine Center and Health of the Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon, promoted the Training Workshop of Young Indigenous Communicators, with the theme Indigenous Medicine. The objective was to prepare communicators who will follow in the future the workshops on...
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Data de publicação: 20/07/2022 - 11:34
With the goal of strengthening integrated influenza surveillance and COVID-19, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) promoted training for nine countries in the Caribbean region. The course focused on molecular diagnosis and epidemiology of Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 viruses. Representatives from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bahamas,...
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