Piracicaba Gazette

April 10 - Unicamp's Piracicaba Dental School (FOP) celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. The date chosen to celebrate the anniversary is April 21st, Tiradentes Day, patron saint of dentistry.

Gazeta Mercantil (Editorial)

April 10, 2007 - Professor Waldir Quadros, from Unicamp, perhaps generalized too much when he stated that the son of a company manager today is unlikely to be a manager in the future. But the impoverishment of the typical middle class in the last two decades is undeniable, especially in more recent years, affecting younger segments of the population.

CBN

April 10 - Infectious disease specialist at Unicamp, Luiz Jacinto da Silva stated that dengue will never be eradicated in the country. The epidemic in the country has already claimed more victims than last year. Data from the Ministry of Health indicate 124 cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever, with 17 deaths. A mortality rate that reaches almost 14%, well above that accepted by the World Health Organization. Brazil has 135 thousand cases of dengue, of which 15 thousand are in the state of São Paulo. Campinas confirmed more than 1,2 people with the disease. The municipality also recorded one death in March, when a resident of Hortolândia was hospitalized in the city.

IDG Now

April 10 - In addition to applications that help with business mobility, the visually impaired will also be major beneficiaries of the technology. A new computer program that gives high-quality voice to words written in Portuguese is in a final stage of development. The technology is being developed by Vocalize, a company residing in the Technology-Based Business Incubator at the State University of Campinas (Incamp), and the first prototype of the software is expected to be ready by July this year.