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Gut microbiota can help to predict colon cancer and rectum
Publicado em 01 abril 2019
Gin microbiota – the population of microbes living in our intestines – can be used to predict colon cancer and rectum, the second most common type of cancer in women and third in men t .
Research by an international team of scientists, including Brazil, has found a link between colon cancer and rectum and changes in gut microbiota patterns that do not depend on the dietary habits of the populations studied. The discovery prepares the way to develop unobtrusive tests that can predict the [...]
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A new survey shows that tropical diseases that have been neglected need attention
Publicado em 22 março 2019Although neglected diseases account for 11% of the global disease burden, they are targeted by only a small proportion of the new drugs developed every year. Between January 2012 and September 2018, a total of 256 new drugs entered the market, but only eight (3.1%) were designed to treat neglected diseases. This value exceeds the proportion for 1975-99, which was 1.1%, but falls short of the 4.3% mark recorded for 2000-11. The term “neglected diseases” refers to malaria, diarrheic [...]ver notícia