Health workers on strike against the privatization of federal hospitals in Rio de Janeiro. The banner reads “Nisia the enemy of the SUS [Public Health System]” [Photo: Mayara Alves/SINSPREV/RJ] ...

The impact of Covid-19 pandemic included various downstream effects on health endpoints worldwide, including the increase in substance abuse.

Editor's note: Find the latest long COVID news and guidance in Medscape's Long COVID Resource Center. A book published by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Brazil, which was based on research ...

Brazil's bats are harboring a vast and diverse pool of coronaviruses, a new study finds, including a newly identified strain that may pose a danger to human health in the years to come. Scientists are ...

COVID-19 patients are treated inside a non-invasive ventilation system at the municipal field hospital Gilberto Novaes in Manaus, Brazil, on May 18, 2020. [AP Photo/Felipe Dana] Five years ago, on ...

Amid the push to get the COVID-19 vaccine to many as possible to stem the pandemic, a new variant of the coronavirus that exploded in Brazil and has since been reported in the U.S. is causing concern ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Brazil surpassed 6 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Friday, the health ministry said, as the world's third-worst coronavirus outbreak begins to surge again ...