Tag: Health and medicine
Metoo at the hospital with K. Lacombe: “Tradition… hinders the emergence of women’s free speech”
Karine Lacombe, professor of medicine at Sorbonne University, infectious disease specialist, author of the book Women will save the hospital (Stock), is this Wednesday, April 24, our international morning guest.…
the “unprecedented” devastation of explosive weapons in 2023
Some 75 countries and territories, or a third of the globe, were affected in 2023 by the use of explosive weapons, causing an “unprecedented” level of damage to civilian infrastructure…
towards massive fertility tests?
In Russia, 2024 has been declared the “Year of the Family”, but the birth rate is at its lowest – against a backdrop of war in Ukraine in particular –…
At the hospital, the transplant sector also in danger
The crisis in the hospital sector in France also has an impact on kidney transplants with living donors, where the wait can last several years. This type of operation, which…
a molecule responsible for allergies identified
This is good news for everyone affected by respiratory allergies. Toulouse researchers from INSERM have discovered a new molecule which plays a major role in triggering inflammation. This protein is…
Kenyan authorities recall batch of cough syrup
The PPB, the Pharmacies and Poisons Board, the Kenyan medicines authority, announced this on Thursday. The drug in question is pediatric Benylin from the Johnson & Johnson laboratory. The Kenyan…
Wolbachia bacteria, a miracle solution?
Brazil is facing an unprecedented dengue epidemic. More than two million cases have already been recorded since the start of the year, and the Ministry of Health estimates that the…
Iseult, the most powerful MRI in the world, delivers its first images
It’s a first. Images of our brain with great precision like we have never captured before. All this was possible thanks to the Iseult MRI, the most powerful MRI in…
the “end of life” bill, a text with high stakes for the government
The “end of life” bill, which must be one of the biggest texts of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term, is presented to the Council of Ministers this Wednesday, April 10.…
End of life: “patients in the palliative phase have the impression that they no longer have their place in society”
This Wednesday, April 10, the end-of-life bill will be presented to the Council of Ministers. It authorizes, under conditions, assistance in dying for certain patients who make this request. A…