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The first vaccine was created by the British physician Edward Jenner in 1796 to prevent smallpox, demonstrating that inoculating material from a lesion could protect against a subsequent infection, thereby beginning a new era. A century later, new vaccines were developed with a relevant impact on the occurrence of a large number of infectious diseases, […]

What about Medicine? The reasons raised by the referral center in the southeastern region for not having an abortion were that they followed the Ministry of Health guidelines that allow humanized abortion up to twenty-two weeks of pregnancy and the fetus’ weight of up to five hundred grams. The law does not establish these limits. […]

Endometriosis is characterized by the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterine cavity, usually represented by deep peritoneal, ovarian and/or infiltrative lesions, and, more rarely, in extrapelvic sites. The estimated prevalence is of 5 to 10%; of reproductive-age women,– despite the suggestion of an actual lower prevalence, of up to 1.8%;, in a recently published […]

The only pandemic comparable to the current event caused by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the disease called COVID-19, was that of the Spanish Flu in 1918. At that time, with slow and scarce intercontinental transport, diseases spreading infectious diseases were unlikely. Nowadays, on the contrary, the ability to move a highly infectious virus is enormous. […]

The infection with the new severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which is responsible for causing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), became a devastating threat to the health of the world population and was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020. Beginning in China at the end […]

The COVID-19 outbreak started in December 2019 in China, and spread throughout the world as a big threat since then. On March 11th, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a pandemic. In Brazil, the first case was diagnosed on February 26th on a man that had recently returned to Brazil from Italy, and on […]

The Epidemic of COVID-19 in Brazil and Worldwide The world is experiencing a pandemic with no recent similar events, caused by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Since December 31, 2019, when the World Health Organization (WHO) was informed about the first cases of pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, China, the disease (COVID-19) spread […]

In August 2019, the safety of menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) returned to the scene again. Once more, its association with breast cancer risk came up, this time in an article published in the prestigious The Lancet (online in August and printed in September/2019). The subject is not new, and authors of the article are not […]