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The World Health Organization said on Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro that it had raised nearly $4 billion dollars through a new financing mechanism it launched in May. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11-4bn.html Wed, 20 Nov 2024 04:40:01 EST news651299887 The World Health Organization on Wednesday authorized a second dengue vaccine, a move that could provide protection for millions worldwide against the mosquito-borne disease that has already sparked numerous outbreaks across the Americas this year. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-agency-authorizes-vaccine-dengue-outbreaks.html Wed, 15 May 2024 09:05:17 EDT news634982703 Dengue is surging across the Americas early this year from Puerto Rico to Brazil, with 3.5 million cases of the tropical disease reported so far, health officials said Thursday. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-dengue-americas-early-year.html Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:00:01 EDT news630863591 Since Rio de Janeiro declared a public health emergency after an outbreak of dengue fever last month, the city has ramped up testing capacities, opened up a dozen dengue health centers and trained medical staff to attend to the ever-growing needs of its population. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-rio-rife-dengue-bacteria-infected.html Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:56:39 EST news628746991 Brazil launched a dengue fever immunization campaign Friday, becoming the first country in the world to provide the vaccine through its public health system as it deals with a surge in cases. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-brazil-dengue-vaccination-outbreak.html Sat, 10 Feb 2024 05:30:01 EST news626765227 Sao Paulo opened an emergency operations center Tuesday to deal with a surge in dengue fever cases that has hit Brazil and South America just as millions of tourists arrive for carnival celebrations. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-brazil-dengue-fever-carnival.html Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:53:26 EST news626460801 A new study suggests that heat waves are exacerbating socioeconomic inequalities in Brazil, with people who are female, elderly, Black, Brown, or who have lower educational levels potentially facing greater risk of death during heat waves. Djacinto Monteiro dos Santos of Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and colleagues present these findings in PLOS ONE. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-01-death-brazil-linked-socioeconomic-factors.html Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:00:01 EST news625310056 Treating superficial skin tumors especially when they are located above cartilage or bone with beta radiation can help protect sensitive structures during the delivery of treatment. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-beta-cancer-treatment.html Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:12:23 EDT news582973941 "COVID has created an unprecedented public health crisis, with severe effects on the global economy and infrastructure; however, we can use the power of science to stop this pandemic," says Columbia team leader Jingyue Ju, Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor of Engineering; professor of chemical engineering and pharmacology; and director, Center for Genome Technology & Biomolecular Engineering. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-antiviral-drug-combinations-covid-therapeutic.html Mon, 07 Mar 2022 10:55:02 EST news565872895 There has been a renewed surge of COVID-19 in Brazil with the spread of the omicron variant and, as elsewhere in the world, it is largely a pandemic of the unvaccinated. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-01-omicron-surge-brazil-hospitalizing-unvaccinated.html Thu, 27 Jan 2022 13:00:02 EST news562510735 Brazil registered a new record number of daily COVID-19 cases of more than 137,000, according to figures supplied by the health ministry on Tuesday. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-01-brazil-registers-daily-covid-cases.html Wed, 19 Jan 2022 04:20:43 EST news561788441 As the omicron variant sends COVID-19 cases soaring across much of the globe, one of the countries most devastated by the disease since the pandemic's onset is struggling to keep track of new cases, deaths and hospitalizations. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-01-shortfall-impairs-brazil-tracking-virus.html Fri, 07 Jan 2022 15:35:59 EST news560792153 Attention beach-lovers seeking a break from the pandemic: Rio de Janeiro is lifting its COVID-19 mask requirement for outdoor areas effective from Thursday, the state's governor said, as once-pandemic-battered Brazil advances quickly with vaccinations. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-rio-de-janeiro-outdoor-mask.html Thu, 28 Oct 2021 03:59:50 EDT news554612388 Brazil on Friday surpassed 600,000 deaths from COVID-19, the health ministry said. The country of 213 million has also recorded more than 21.5 million cases of the deadly virus. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-brazil-surpasses-covid-deaths.html Sat, 09 Oct 2021 06:02:19 EDT news552978136 Some cities in Brazil are providing booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine, even though most people have yet to receive their second jabs, in a sign of the concern in the country over the highly contagious delta variant. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-brazil-booster-shots-await-2nd.html Sat, 04 Sep 2021 03:39:20 EDT news549945529 Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian states on Tuesday suspended immunization of pregnant women with the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine on the advice of the national health regulator after a reported death. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-05-brazil-states-astrazeneca-vaccine-pregnant.html Wed, 12 May 2021 03:40:01 EDT news540009055 Rio de Janeiro announced new restrictions Thursday on bars, restaurants and beaches, seeking to contain a surge of COVID-19 that is pushing Brazil's hospitals to the breaking point. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-03-rio-tightens-restrictions-covid-surges.html Thu, 04 Mar 2021 15:00:03 EST news534092014 Brazil, the country with the second-highest coronavirus death toll, passed the 10-million mark for reported infections Thursday, amid a deadly second wave and problems with its vaccination campaign. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-02-brazil-mn-coronavirus-infections.html Fri, 19 Feb 2021 04:13:39 EST news532930413 Rio de Janeiro will suspend its COVID-19 vaccination campaign until next week because the Brazilian city has run out of doses, Mayor Eduardo Paes said Monday. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-02-vaccine-shortage-rio-covid-jabs.html Mon, 15 Feb 2021 13:30:01 EST news532617588 Hard-hit Brazil's drive to vaccinate its population against COVID-19 has stumbled this week as a lack of doses forced authorities to slow or halt immunization in several key areas. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-02-shortages-stymie-brazil-vaccination.html Fri, 12 Feb 2021 16:16:56 EST news532369010 Zélia de Carvalho Morley rolled up a sleeve and looked stoically to the side as a nurse slid in a COVID-19 shot. She was one of thousands in Brazil to get the shot on Wednesday, but one of very few old enough to recall an earlier viral pandemic that swept her nation and the world a century ago. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-01-woman-earliest-vaccine-recipients-brazil.html Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:47:15 EST news530383629 Brazil surpassed four million coronavirus cases on Thursday, as an international panel looking into the global response to the pandemic vowed to uncover how it was able to spread worldwide. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-brazil-tops-mn-cases-probe.html Fri, 04 Sep 2020 04:40:01 EDT news518413049 A team of international development researchers, working with some of the poorest neighborhoods in Brazil and Colombia to mitigate the effects of natural hazards, have transformed their project to help strengthen those communities' resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-favela-resilient-covid-citizen.html Tue, 11 Aug 2020 08:51:12 EDT news516354668 Brazil was leaping toward a grim milestone of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday, and five months after the first reported case the country has not shown signs of crushing the disease. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-brazil-deaths-covid-.html Sat, 08 Aug 2020 16:59:48 EDT news516124783 According to a new study by UCLA researchers and colleagues conducted in Brazil, 65% of children born to mothers infected with the Zika virus also tested positive for the mosquito-borne infection—a much higher rate than expected. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-zika-virus-transmission-mother-unborn.html Tue, 28 Jul 2020 09:16:29 EDT news515146585 Brazil surpassed 70,000 coronavirus deaths on Friday, the health ministry said, though the number of daily fatalities appears to be stabilizing. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-brazil-surpasses-coronavirus-deaths-1.html Sat, 11 Jul 2020 02:45:57 EDT news513654353 Brazil topped 60,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus after recording more than 1,000 fatalities over the last 24 hours, the health ministry said on Wednesday. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-brazil-surpasses-coronavirus-deaths.html Thu, 02 Jul 2020 03:58:51 EDT news512881125 Brazil registered 42,725 cases of the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said Wednesday, as experts warned the country was exiting lockdown too soon. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-brazil-registers-virus-cases.html Thu, 25 Jun 2020 04:00:02 EDT news512275849 The new coronavirus was circulating in Brazil in early February, weeks earlier than initially detected, and just before millions of people were partying in the streets for carnival, according to a new study. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-coronavirus-brazil-carnival.html Tue, 12 May 2020 15:38:08 EDT news508516685 From the Amazon city of Manaus to the seemingly endless urban sprawl of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, freshly dug graves have been filling up quickly for weeks with the bodies of Brazilians killed by COVID-19. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-brazil-virus-despair-rio-amazon.html Thu, 07 May 2020 10:43:53 EDT news508067029