Tag: Health and medicine
“Asian medicine, the art of balance” at the Guimet museum in Paris
This is the first major exhibition in France devoted to Asian medicines: Indian, Chinese and Tibetan. Through 300 works of art – sculptures, paintings, drawings, furniture, ritual and therapeutic objects…
A Quebec hospital center innovates to reduce its carbon impact
The health sector is a major producer of greenhouse gases on a global scale. Some institutions are trying to change practices, medical or not, to reduce their carbon footprint, such…
a “very disappointing” decree for associations
On July 1st in France, a decree plans to require manufacturers of pads and tampons to display the components of their products on packaging or instructions. Except that for the…
Tobacco cultivation, a health, agricultural and economic heresy
Some 300 million people are food insecure. Eight million deaths each year are due to tobacco. A priori, the two numbers have nothing to do. A priori only. On the…
Tribune against Didier Raoult’s “wild” trials: “Clinical research has rules”
Several medical organizations have signed a column in the newspaper Le Monde, where they criticize the work, but also the ethics of Professor Didier Raoult. He is accused of having…
pregnant women particularly affected by the conflict
According to the UN, 30 babies have died in hospitals in Khartoum since April 15 due to lack of care. In Sudan, the truce that came into effect on Monday…
the economic crisis hinders women’s access to menstrual hygiene
In Haiti, it is difficult for young girls to have good menstrual hygiene due to the lack of access to sanitary pads. Indeed, prices have risen sharply, as has the…
against avian flu, two vaccines prove to be very effective
In France, the avian flu is devastating. 900,000 animals have been slaughtered since the beginning of the month. A dramatic situation for breeders whose farms are threatened. But, glimmer of…
how South/North cooperation on the fight against pandemics took place
The Overseas Academy of Sciences (Asom) celebrates its 100th anniversary this May 26, 2023 in Paris. Asom, which was originally an “Academy of Colonial Sciences”, now works for the circulation…
the powerlessness of nurses in the face of daily violence
Five days after the murder of a nurse by a man suffering from psychiatric disorders in Reims, in the north-east of France, a report by the council of the order…