Roads Traveled

Science editor Jaime Benchimol says good-bye to História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos front line.

Expert in Chagas disease dies at 93

Gastroenterologist Dr. Joffre Marcondes de Rezende contributed to medicine relating the Megaesophagus condition to Chagas disease.

A historical perspective on Ebola

Marcos Cuetos discusses three aspects and three dangers of this devastating ebola outbreak.

HCSM’s latest issue of 2014 available online

This issue features 25 articles of different topics. See its full content in Scielo.

Fiocruz researchers found super-bacteria in the waters of Rio de Janeiro

The antibiotic resistant bacteria was discovered in a river that flows into the bay where Olympic sailing events will be held in 2016.

Brazilian scientist Luiz Hildebrando Pereira dies at 86

Luiz Hidelbrando Pereira da Silva was one of the world’s greatest malaria researchers. He was also the founder and director of the Institute for Research on Tropical Pathologies of Rondônia.