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: 09/02/2024 - 15:10
The Leônidas & Maria Deane Institute (ILMD/Fiocruz Amazônia), through the Surveillance Center for Emerging, Reemerging or Neglected Viruses, in partnership with several institutions, carried out the genomic and epidemiological characterization of the outbreak of the oropouche virus (Orov), which has been occurring since 2022. Orov is endemic to the Amazon region and has been recording outbreaks in Brazil since the 70s. Orov...
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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: 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: 09/02/2024 - 14:40
Researchers evaluated the immunogenicity, efficacy and safety of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in a group ten years after the last dose. Coordinated by Fiocruz Bahia researcher Edson Duarte Moreira Júnior and published in the journal Pediatrics, of the American Association of Pediatrics, the study followed 301 boys and 971 girls who received three doses of the 9vHPV vaccine in the baseline study (day 1, months 2 and 6) and...
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Data de publicação: 05/02/2024 - 16:53
The Pasteur Network has announced the election of new regional representatives for the Americas, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Euro-Mediterranean. Among the elected representatives is Mario Moreira, the president of Fiocruz. Alongside Carlos Bathhyany, from the Pasteur Institute in Montevideo, he will represent the Americas. The newly elected representatives will serve two-year terms and become part of the Board of Directors of the Association....
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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: 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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Data de publicação: 07/02/2024 - 17:11
Women living in economically segregated areas, with few resources and poor access to health services, are more likely to die from breast cancer. However, these risk factors can be mitigated with income transfer programs, such as the Bolsa Família Program (PBF, in the Portuguese acronym). A recent study, published in the journal Jama Network conducted by researchers from Fiocruz Bahia's Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for...
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Data de publicação: 31/01/2024 - 14:54
Not every pregnancy is the same, as Jecita Pereira Clares knows, who had no complications with the birth of her first child and then faced a premature birth with her second. At 25 weeks, Benjamin was born weighing 750 grams and Jecita experienced the emotional rollercoaster common to mothers with children in intensive care units.
When Radis spoke to her in the Milk Bank room at the Taguatinga Regional Hospital (HRT) in the Federal District,...
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Data de publicação: 26/01/2024 - 14:57
A study by the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) reveals the accelerated growth of artificial intelligence (AI) applications aimed at tackling cancer. Published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, the study analyzed global patent registrations in the area, showing the expansion of new technologies, mainly related to image analysis, biomarkers, early disease detection and gene expression modeling.
Carried out in a database that gathers...
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Data de publicação: 22/01/2024 - 13:26
A study conducted by Fiocruz researchers suggests that the use of IBMP chimeric antigens has promising potential for the safe diagnosis of Chagas disease in regions where the protozoa Crithidia sp. LVH-60A and Trypanosoma cruzi coexist. The research, led by Fred Luciano Neves Santos, from the Gonçalo Moniz Institute (Fiocruz Bahia), was published in the journal Diagnostics and focused on the development of precise immunoassays, a method...
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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: 19/01/2024 - 15:16
Thousands of people every year are affected by outbreaks of infectious diseases. Moreover, according to European Commission documents, the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that the current international surveillance and warning system for infectious diseases does not work fast enough when faced with a rapidly dispersed respiratory pathogen. In this context, health authorities and agencies from different countries recognize that quicker detection...
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Data de publicação: 19/01/2024 - 11:47
Seven new species of helminths, popularly known as worms, have been discovered through a study conducted by the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) and the State University of Maranhão (UEMA). The parasites were found in fish collected in the States of Acre, Maranhão and Minas Gerais. The findings were published in the journal Parasite and in the Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária (Brazilian Journal of...
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Data de publicação: 28/12/2023 - 10:12
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive scientific opinion for Arpraziquantel for the treatment of schistosomiasis in preschool children (3 months to 6 years old). The application was submitted by the Pediatric Praziquantel Consortium, under the EU-M4all procedure for high-priority medicines for human use intended for countries outside the European Union. In Brazil, the regulatory submission to the Brazilian Health Regulatory...
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Data de publicação: 11/03/2024 - 11:15
On March 20th, at 14h, professor Jack A. Tuszynski, from the University of Alberta in Canada and the Polytechnic University of Turin in Italy, will deliver an online research seminar on computational modelling applied to health titled “Measuring and modelling electro conductive and quantum properties of cytoskeletal protein filaments exposed to electromagnetic fields.” The seminar will provide a physics perspective on intracellular...
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Data de publicação: 06/03/2024 - 09:53
Intending to establish international partnerships for the development and production of technologies, Fiocruz launched the English version of its Innovation Portfolio on Wednesday (2/28). The Innovation Portfolio is Fiocruz's fundamental tool for seeking out national and international partners interested in developing and licensing products that benefit society.
"We can say that the Portfolio is an important tool for strengthening...
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Data de publicação: 28/12/2023 - 09:40
The Institute of Drug Technology (Farmanguinhos/Fiocruz) has signed a technology transfer agreement for the production of the medicine tofacitinib citrate, a generic clone of Xeljanz®. The partnership was signed with Pfizer Brazil on Wednesday (12/20), in Rio de Janeiro. The aim is to strengthen national production and increase public access to the treatment of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, i.e. those triggered by imbalances in the...
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Data de publicação: 27/12/2023 - 12:22
COVID-19 has exposed socio-economic and healthcare inequalities in Brazil, as well as the importance and weaknesses of the SUS, pointing to the need to reverse divestment in the universal public health system, a fundamental policy for reducing inequalities in the country. This is the conclusion of the article COVID-19 inpatient mortality in Brazil from 2020 to 2022: a cross-sectional overview study based on secondary data, authored by...
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Data de publicação: 27/12/2023 - 12:07
With the arrival of winter in the Amazon, there is growing concern about the diseases transmitted by Aedes aegypti, known as arboviruses. Dengue, zika and chikungunya are the most common diseases in the Amazon region, but there are also other less well-known diseases, such as the oropouche and mayaro viruses (the latter which is very common in hard-to-reach places and forest areas, with the Haemagogus janthinomys mosquito as the main vector of...
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Data de publicação: 27/12/2023 - 11:46
The Institute of Drug Technology (Farmanguinhos/Fiocruz) has taken an important step towards internationalizing its activities by signing a memorandum of understanding with the University of Coimbra (UC). International cooperation provides for the development of actions in the areas of education, research and technological development in health. Signed by the director of Farmanguinhos, Jorge Mendonça, and by the vice-dean of the...
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Data de publicação: 27/09/2023 - 08:12
Fiocruz's Innovation Portfolio has a wide and diverse number of technologies, related primarily to the field of health, which may be applied on the development of products and services.
Technological development and researches carried out at Fiocruz can be subject to public and private partnerships, with international institutions and companies, thus allowing that new health solutions and technologies are made available to society....
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Data de publicação: 27/09/2023 - 08:05
Fiocruz seeks to expand its partnerships with the productive sector in order to accelerate the process of transforming knowledge into innovative products and services to tend the needs of society.
With that in mind, Fiocruz’s Innovation Portfolio gathers the technologies developed in the Institution with a high innovative potential, which aim at contributing to the generation of solutions for the problems of public health.
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