THE INCIDENCE OF BRAIN HEMORRHAGE due to hypertension has declined over the past several years in this country, but the problem of brain hemorrhage remains an important cause of death and disability.' In Japan the death rate from cerebral hemorrhage has also dropped but the problem is still serious and the death rate from hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage per 100,000 population is higher than in...

An atypical pneumonia in a renal transplant patient We report the case of a 27-year-old man who suffered from end-stage renal disease secondary to medullary cys-tic kidney disease and who received a kidney transplant in November 2007. The post-transplant immunosuppressive regimen consisted of methylprednisolone, tacrolimus and mycophenolate mofetil. One year later, the patient presented with a ...

On January 17, 2021, two vaccines were approved by ANVISA for emergency use to help combat COVID-19: Coronavac and Covishield/Oxford. The first vaccine is composed of inactivated (killed) viruses, was produced the Chinese company Sinovac in Brazil, will be Butantã Institute (São Paulo). second an adenovirus non-replicating viral vector pharmaceutical Serum India partnership with AstraZeneca/Oxf...