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Hepatitis C: New guideline should help eliminating the disease, says Dr. Raymundo ParanáBrazil has a challenge do widen patient access to diagnostic, since the diseases rates, although increasing, are still lower than expected Recently published in the Official Gazette (Diário Oficial da União - DOU), the updates of the Clinical and Treatment Guidelines for Viral Hepatitis, which to Dr. Raymundo Paraná, represents ... Land regularization is an expensive and long-lasting process. It does not matter to governments, mourns Thiago Flores, who was raised in Santa Isabel colony Segregated by the disease, now people with leprosy have to fight for dignityDespite all alerts for leprosy, Brazil stands out in the world for the disease's expressive detection rate. In absolute numbers, it is second only to India, which has a much greater population. "We register approximately 30 thousand new cases every year, mostly in the North, Northeast and Center-West regions of the Country, from which currently Tocantins is the state with greatest incidence, followed by Mato Grosso.”. Tocantins has surpassed Mato Grosso... Travelers are a sentinel population for public health diseases in a particular region, country or even continent Measles in Roraima: It is crucial to vaccinate, alerts Dr. Tânia ChavesUm dos fatores relacionados à atual situação do sarampo em Roraima se deve ao elevado movimento migratório de venezuelanos que se dirigem ao estado em busca de melhores condições de vida e novas oportunidades de trabalho, em detrimento ao colapso social e econômico vivido pela Venezuela. De acordo com a médica infectologista, Professora da Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA) e pesquisadora do Instituto Evandro Chagas, doutora Tânia Chaves... Malaria: Without effective control, diagnostic and treatment actions, the number of cases growth will be greater, adverts Dr. André SiqueiraThe success confronting the disease will only achieved with effective political commitment and participation of all involved The increase in the number of malaria cases after years of progress is worrying. For Tropical Diseases PhD, infectious... |
CRISPR/Cas9 System could help in the discovery of new drugs and in the prevention of infectious diseasesCRISPR/Cas9 could help accelerating investigations on genetic modifications in disease-transmitting insect vectors to create insects without efficiency as vectors Picture a system able to precisely edit genomic DNA in cells and organisms and still promote strong implications in basic research, medicine and biotechnology. An efficient, practical and simple tool able to work in large-scale on genomes and carry a significant... Below is a selection of for this month of april of publications related to Tropical Medicine from important international journals. Diagnosing Ebola before Symptoms Arrive Man has 'world's worst' super-gonorrhoea Sisgen convenes researchers and teachers for information updates Tropical Medicine Foundation is still selecting patients for study on Zika virus Chagas disease-transmitting kissing bugs are found in Venda Nova
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