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...

DOI: 10.1590/S1679-45082016ED3620 Drug prices are established mostly by the Big Pharma companies in America and Europe, and those prices are transmitted, when they manage to do so, to other countries. New drugs for hepatitis C, monoclonal antibodies used in cancer therapy or new inhibitors of kinases also used for cancer treatment, are examples of very expensive drugs. High prices are even high...

Transfusion medicine is a complex process that depends on several professionals. To do it safely, each professional depends not only on their own knowledge and skills, but also the knowledge and skills of the entire team and the efficiency of the system. There is growing recognition of adverse events associated with blood transfusions and several factors may contribute to increase the chances o...

Pesticides are currently a major public health problem, considering the size of the exposed population in pesticide plants and surrounding areas, in farming, in fighting endemics and other sectors, in the vicinity of farming areas, and ultimately all of us, who are consumers of contaminated products. Between 2007 and 2011, according to data from the Information System of Compulsory Notification...