Tag: Health and medicine
a program launched to help sex workers face daily violence
In Madagascar, the island’s approximately 170,000 sex workers are victims of gender-based violence on a daily basis, reveals a study carried out and presented on Tuesday January 23 by Médecins…
Cameroon launches the first systematic vaccination campaign for children against malaria
On Monday January 22, Cameroon launched a vast campaign to vaccinate children against malaria. This is a first on the continent after the pilot phase which was carried out in…
decline in social and environmental standards since Brexit
Since leaving the European Union, the United Kingdom has seen a worrying decline in crucial legislation. While the Union is strengthening its environmental regulations, the Conservative government is moving further…
foreign doctors are mobilizing once again for administrative regularization
Foreign doctors mobilized in Paris in front of the Ministry of Health this Thursday, January 18 to demand their continued employment and the regularization of their administrative situation. 4 mins…
Alcohol: are the French public authorities lax?
Not a drop of alcohol for a month is the concept of Dry January imported from the United Kingdom for several years. An initiative not officially supported by the French…
In Yvelines, an emergency service in great pain
In Meulan-en-Yvelines, a town of 10,000 inhabitants, west of Paris, the emergency department of the town hospital has been on strike since January 8. An indefinite strike to demand the…
study reveals patient discrimination in emergency rooms
A study carried out by an emergency doctor from Montpellier (south-east) and published this week in the international journal European Journal of Emergency Medicineshows the importance of prejudices in the…
the families of the victims of contaminated blood are still waiting for a gesture from the executive
The British government has announced it will expunge all convictions linked to the state scandal of Post Office workers wrongly accused of embezzlement. This exoneration makes the victims of another…
Maïmouna Ndour Mbaye joins the French Academy of Medicine
She is the first woman from West Africa to join the French Academy of Medicine. Maïmouna Ndour Mbaye, full professor of internal medicine at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar,…
against endometriosis, the HAS wants support for a “promising” saliva test
This would be a victory in the fight against a disease which affects one in ten women in France: the High Authority for Health (HAS) is now recommending an innovative…