Medicine

Acknowledgment

2024 FCW Award Winners

Marco Antonio Zago and Ugo Giorgetti named winners of the 2024 FCW Award

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Epidemiology

Mpox emergency

World Health Organization declared mpox outbreak a health emergency in August 2024

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Interview

Bruno Geloneze: Injections alone will not solve the problem

New anti-obesity drugs work well, says UNICAMP endocrinologist, but they need to be combined with a good diet and exercise to produce lasting benefits

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History of science

Letters and portraits of science

Emílio Ribas's inventory contains letters, photos, and personal documents

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RESEARCH ITINERARIES

Crossed paths

An advocate of the concept of One Health, veterinarian Nathalia Juocys embraced human medicine in her academic career

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RETROSPECT

The past dangers of receiving blood

Until early 20th century discoveries, transfusions depended essentially on luck

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MENTAL HEALTH

Messages and home visits help reduce symptoms of depression in the elderly

Strategies were tested on low-income participants with low education levels in the city of Guarulhos

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NEUROLOGY

Elderly capuchin monkeys have lesions typical of Alzheimer’s disease

The finding could allow primates abundant in Brazil to be used as a model for studying the human disease

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ETHICS

New rules for research involving human beings

New law set to come into force at the end of August will allow trials to be approved by a single body

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Public health

Anti-HIV medication still poorly distributed

Distribution of preventive HIV medicine concentrated in major cities

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Pharmacology

No-needle blood test

Just for women: new needle-free blood sugar test

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Medicine

Hospital infections caused by skin

Hospital infections can be caused by bacteria carried on the patient's own skin

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Retrospect

Glass negatives depict science in the early twentieth century

Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro and other institutions preserve rare photographic collections

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Interview

Antonio Bianco: An adjustment to hypothyroidism treatment

The Brazilian physician based in the USA explains how he discovered that current hormone therapy could fail and proposes a correction to its use

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Public health

Shorter treatment for malaria

New drug proves as effective at preventing recurrences as current medications with longer courses

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XENOTRANSPLANTATION

A team from USP is attempting to create genetically modified pigs to provide organs to humans

The animals will be raised in special facilities, such as one opened on the Cidade Universitária campus in April

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Medicine

Signs of Parkinson’s disease in the skin

In the future, a skin exam could help doctors diagnose Parkinson's disease

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Research itineraries

First-hand experience

After caring for her mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's, Ceres Ferretti switched from studying philosophy to nursing, later becoming a care specialist

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Interview

Luis Bahamondes: The paradoxes of women’s health

The specialist in methods of contraception warns about the importance of long-lasting forms of birth control for reducing the risk of unplanned pregnancy and abortion

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COVID-19

Even after being destroyed, the COVID-19 virus wreaks havoc

Even when broken apart by the human immune system, the SARS-CoV-2 virus still causes excessive inflammation

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Public health

More arguments against vapes

Brazilian Society of Cardiology supports the ban on electronic cigarettes

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Neurology

Study identifies rare form of Alzheimer’s acquired through treatment no longer used

Individuals were given a hormone extracted from cadavers, contaminated with protein fragments associated with the onset of the disease

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Health

Hugs for heart health

Affection and emotional support during childhood can influence heart health

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Health economics

Half of all tuberculosis patients spend more than 20% of their annual family income on treatment

Extra consultations or exams, transportation, food, and loss of income add up to US$1,573.40, on average

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Epidemiology

Around 400,000 people died due to cardiovascular problems in Brazil in 2022

Heart attacks and different types of strokes accounted for 76% of cases

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Research itineraries

Hard to beat

How Doctor Sandro Matas learned to live with a physical disability and fought to make UNIFESP more inclusive

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New materials

Advances in 3D printing of human tissues

Artificially produced skin, livers, and intestines emerge as an alternative to testing cosmetics on animals

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Immunology

Cutaneous leishmaniasis may be aggravated by viral and bacterial coinfections

Cutaneous leishmaniasis may be aggravated by viral and bacterial coinfections

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Fetal medicine

Digital atlas identifies the ideal evolution of a baby’s brain during pregnancy

3D ultrasounds of the brains of 899 healthy babies were used to map development of the organ from the fourteenth week of pregnancy onwards

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Cover

Testing of candidate antibiotics has increased in the last decade

The number of compounds entering clinical use is still too low to combat multidrug-resistant bacteria

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