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Study shows high prevalence of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder after COVID-19
Publicado em 16 de fevereiro de 2022
In a study involving 425 patients who recovered from moderate and severe COVID-19, researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil observed a high prevalence of cognitive deficits and psychiatric impairments. The assessments were conducted between six and nine months after discharge from Hospital das Clínicas (HC), the hospital complex run by the university’s Medical School (FM-USP).
Half the participants (51.1%) reported memory decline after the infection. [...]
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Protein that helps zika virus invade cells could be target for novel antivirals
Publicado em 01 outubro 2021Published in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity elucidates one of the mechanisms whereby zika virus causes neurological complications in adult patients and microcephaly in fetuses. The discovery paves the way for future research to develop drugs that combat the virus. In the study, which was supported by FAPESP, the researchers found a correlation between the neurological complications caused by zika and high levels of Gas6, a protein that helps the virus invade human cells. They also [...]ver notícia -
Models to predict dengue, zika and yellow fever outbreaks are developed by researchers
Publicado em 23 fevereiro 2021Yellow fever was the first human disease to have a licensed vaccine and has long been considered important to understanding how epidemics break out and should be combated. It was introduced to the Americas in the 17th century, and high death rates have resulted from successive outbreaks since then. Epidemics of yellow fever were associated with the slave trade, the U.S. gold rush and settlement of the Old West, the Haitian Revolution, and construction of the Panama Canal, to cite only a few [...]ver notícia