http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Brazil said Wednesday it has temporarily suspended the import of breast implants pending quality control tests in the wake of last December's health scare over defective French-made implants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-brazil-temporarily-breast-implant-imports.html Surgery Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:22:34 EST news251554943 Swiss drug giant Roche said on Monday it had been given European Union approval for its treatment to fight a highly aggressive form of skin cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-eu-skin-cancer-drug-roche.html Cancer Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:13:03 EST news248944365 The government of Rio de Janeiro state will distribute more than three million condoms free of charge during Brazil's five-day carnival that begins Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-rio-million-free-condoms-carnival.html Health Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:50:02 EST news248621716 The World Health Organization called Monday for greater efforts to fight leprosy, warning the disfiguring disease was defying efforts to wipe it out across many countries in the Asia-Pacific region. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-stepped-up-leprosy.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:04:36 EST news248339061 US authorities on Friday seized nine shipments of orange juice from Brazil and Canada after their contents tested positive for an illegal fungicide. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-blocks-orange-juice-imports-due.html Health Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:00:02 EST news246894564 Brazil said Monday its AIDS epidemic was under control, with a 0.61 percent cut in new cases between 2009 and 2010, although a rise among young homosexuals was a cause for concern. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-brazil-aids.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:20:01 EST news241755032 A woman who at 61 is expecting not a pension check but her first baby has stirred some controversy in Brazil over just when it might be too late to give birth. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-pregnant-late-in-life-choice-debate-brazil.html Health Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:20:40 EST news236229629 Two decades after Brazil's constitution recognized health as a citizen's right and a duty of the state, the country has vastly expanded health care coverage, improved the population's health, and reduced many health inequalities, but universal and equitable coverage remains elusive, experts from four major Brazilian universities and New York University have concluded. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-brazil-health-vastly-coverage-universality.html Health Tue, 10 May 2011 11:53:21 EST news224247139 Major progress has been made in reducing the burden of infectious diseases in Brazil as part of a "remarkable" success story for health in the South American country, according to researchers on a series of papers published in The Lancet. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-health-brazil-highlights-major.html Health Mon, 09 May 2011 17:25:05 EST news224180686