Public health

Memory

The botanist who wrote books at Court

Books were written 210 years ago about the problems of Brazil as a colony

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Child health

Eat less, son

Mothers do not always recognize when their children are overweight

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Clinical trials

SUS requirements

Research network in teaching hospitals expanded

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Public Health

Difficult progress

Poverty expands uncertainties around research into TB treatments

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Medicine

Exaggerated reaction

The cause of swine flu induces inflammation that destroys lung cells

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Cover

Bedroom findings

Stress and lack of sleep are the chief enemies of a fulfilling sex life

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Variations on a suffocating theme

Asthma may be a group of illnesses instead of just one

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Ecology

Overly close neighbors

Living close to human beings exposes the brown monkey to yellow fever

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Epidemiology

The origin of illnesses

Six states join in a survey about heart diseases and diabetes

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Management

Better public health

USP Medical School encourages training family doctors

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Epidemiology

Concentrated Risk

60% of asymptomatic carriers of the HIV with resistance to drugs are in SP

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Edison Luiz Durigon

Edison Luiz Durigon: High-risk intimacy

Virologist speaks of the threat of H1N1 and of continuous virus mutations

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Medicine

More damage from smoke

Cigarettes impair the functioning of the heart muscles

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virology

A little known celebrity

Adolfo Lutz team isolates the first swine flu virus samples

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immunology

Controlled response

Anti-inflammatory drugs may fight the immune system's reaction to malaria

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Environment

Needed: cleaner air

Car running on alcohol emits 92% less composite pollutants

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Health

Adhesive poison

Enzyme replaces traditional sutures with no scarring

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Neuroscience

Parkinson’s disease under control

Electrical stimulation reduces symptoms of Parkinson's disease in rodents

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Public health

Wider spectrum

Program bring researchers closer to the problems faced by SUS

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Retrospect

On their own skin

106 years ago, Emilio Ribas and Adolpho Lutz proved that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes

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Environment

The human factor

Institute is going to measure financial losses from air pollution

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Health

Suffocating population

Air pollution increases the risk of death among newborns by 50%

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Food security

Sensor assesses milk

A sensor can detect if the milk has been adulterated with hydrogen peroxide

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Nutrition

Fortified water

Iron and vitamin C in drinking water may help fight child anemia

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Mental Health

Looking after mental health

Psychosocial Support Centers are concentrated in the richest areas of Brazil

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leishmaniasis

Leishmaniasis in our cities

Protozoan that causes the disease was detected in dogs that lives in Sao Paulo

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Funding

United States

Research foundations are working to create a network for investigating malaria

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Memory

Chasing the barber bug (T. cruzi)

Emmanuel Dias prepared the earliest campaigns to eradicate Chagas Disease in Brazil

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public health

A pre-announced disease

Visceral leishmaniasis spreads throughout Brazilian cities

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The human face of weather

Plan is to prevent natural disasters from affecting millions of people

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