Brazilian research team investigates protective factors in extraordinary people who survived COVID-19 without vaccines and remained independent past age 110 The Brazilian supercentenarians had no ...

Food distribution to homeless population in Curitiba, in southern state of Paraná. (Credit: Valmir Fernandes [Photo by Coletivo Marmitas da Terra / CC BY 4.0] A study released by Brazil’s Health ...

Health workers on strike against the privatization of federal hospitals in Rio de Janeiro. The banner reads “Nisia the enemy of the SUS [Public Health System]” [Photo: Mayara Alves/SINSPREV/RJ] ...

In A Nutshell Three Brazilian supercentenarians survived COVID-19 in 2020 before vaccines existed, showing remarkably strong ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Brazil surpassed 6 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Friday, the health ministry said, as the world's third-worst coronavirus outbreak begins to surge again ...

Scientists are uncovering why Brazil may be one of the most important yet underused resources for studying extreme longevity.

Brazil's bats are harboring a vast and diverse pool of coronaviruses, a new study finds, including a newly identified strain that may pose a danger to human health in the years to come. Scientists are ...

We’re committed to telling the stories that corporate media ignores—stories from Gaza, from Baltimore, from labor picket lines and prison yards, and from communities organizing for justice. But we can ...

"It gives the people a fake feeling of safety." In Brazil, the new epicenter of the world's COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals are overflowing, health care workers are stretched beyond their limits and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's leader Jair Bolsonaro is moving to assert control of the nation's independent health regulator, Anvisa, a move some health experts fear will politicize the agency ...

A Viewpoint published in Genomic Psychiatry by Dr. Mayana Zatz and colleagues at the Human Genome and Stem Cell Research ...