HIV specific humoral immune response in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The HEC/Fiocruz AIDS Clinical Research Group.

Neutralization of primary HIV-1 isolated from individuals residing in Rio de Janeiro. HEC/FIOCRUZ AIDS Clinical Research Group.

Traumatic Habit causing Gingival Recession in a child: 3-Year Follow Up

Introduction: The purpose of this report was to present a successful treatment approach in an unusual gingival recession as a result of finger sucking traumatic habit associated with high labial frenum. Case Report: A 10-year-old girl presented moderate pain, recession in the mandibular right incisor and finger sucking habit. The performed treatment was: oral hygiene instruction, use of palatal...

Challenges and Prospects for Integrating the Assessment of Health Impacts in the Licensing Process of Large Capital Project in Brazil

Brazil was one of the first countries in Latin America to institutionalize a National Environmental Policy in 1981, including the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process of economic activities with anticipated impacts on the environment. Today, EIA practice in Brazil comes with a number of limitations: it is constrained by its environmental advocacy role; application is strongly oriented ...

Acute Paracoccidioidomycosis Due to Paracoccidioides brasiliensis S1 Mimicking Hypereosinophilic Syndrome with Massive Splenomegaly: Diagnostic Challenge

1 Infectious Dermatology Clinical Research Laboratory, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2 Mycology Laboratory, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3 Nosocomial Infection Surveillance and Control Program, Central Hospital of Military Police (HCPM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 4 Department...

Scale to Assess Leaders' Perceptions about their Workers' Digital Addiction

Background: With the evolution of technologies and the mobility factor, new digital devices have emerged, influencing human behavior and provoking diverse dependencies due to their abusive use. Collective environments begin to exhibit the symptoms of such dependencies, compromising people's quality of life (QOL). The objective of the present study was to valida...