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Vaccination coverage against polio reached, until this Monday (17), National Vaccination Day, 65.6% of the expected public, according to data from the Ministry of Health. The 2022 National Vaccination Campaign against Poliomyelitis and Multivaccination began on August 8 and ended on September 30, after an extension. The objective of the campaign was to achieve vaccination […]

Hollywood’s version of childbirth bears little resemblance to my experience, or that of anyone else I know. On screens, we almost always see moms-to-be rushing to the hospital after a dramatic water break, a somewhat rare occurrence in real life, after which she howls and curses her way through rapid labor. Then, poof, voilà!, her […]

Ebola is a rare and deadly disease. The virus spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids and is not transmitted through airborne viral particles, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says. The disease has no cure and there is no approved vaccine, although there is a concerted effort to create one. Speaking […]

This October 17th marks National Vaccination Day. However, due to the low demand for immunizations in recent years, the director of the Brazilian Society of Immunizations Flávia Bravo, assesses that the “scenario is very worrying.” According to her, the cause for the drop in vaccine coverage is not only due to the pandemic, since this […]

The Secretary of State for Health of São Paulo announced this Sunday (16) that the state recorded, on Saturday (15), the second death from smallpox in monkeys. The patient was born in Santos, 36 years old, had comorbidities and had been hospitalized in Praia Grande since the beginning of September. The first death in the […]

The Federal Council of Medicine (CFM) published this Friday (14) a new rule with rules for the prescription of drugs based on cannabidiol, a derivative of cannabis. According to CFM Resolution 2,324published in the Official Gazette of the Union, the cannabis medicinal product can be prescribed only in the treatment of refractory epilepsy in children […]

Iana dos Reis Nunes was 43 years old when she told her husband that she felt something like a blister in her abdomen when she was lying on her side. An ultrasound found spots on her liver, which led to blood tests and a colonoscopy. “There was a tumor the size of her fist, and […]

Although it is recognized as something bad, the cholesterol performs important functions in the human body. It is part of the structure of the body’s cells and is essential for the production of some hormones and vitamins. Cholesterol also forms bile acids, which are substances that act in digestion. Cholesterol becomes a problem when there […]

Three months after the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) approved vaccination against Covid-19 for children between three and four years old – initially with Coronavac and later with Pfizer -, data from the LocalizaSUS portal, from the Ministry of Health , show that 13.7% of this target audience received the first dose and 3.9% the […]

Brazil had more than 64,000 cases of syphilis registered in 2021, according to a balance sheet by the Ministry of Health. Since 2017, October 15th marks the National Day to Combat Syphilis, a date that alerts the population about the importance of prevention, diagnosis and treatment. In an interview with CNN Radio urologist Danilo Galante […]