Tag: Health and medicine
VigilanS, a system for preventing repeat suicide attempts
The objective of the VigilanS system is to reduce the risk of a repeat suicide attempt, by establishing a telephone link – and sometimes by postcard – during the six…
These general practitioners who decide to unconventionally
Since Friday October 13, all liberal doctors’ unions have called for a national renewable strike before new negotiations with Health Insurance. One of the doctors’ demands is the revaluation of…
Poles complain about expensive and failing healthcare system
In Poland, while electoral silence is required before the parliamentary elections on Sunday October 15, participation in the vote could turn out to be much higher than in the past.…
Timid start of the papillomavirus vaccination campaign
This was one of the government’s promises: to offer a vaccine to middle schools from the start of the 2023 school year to better fight human papillomavirus infections, HPV. According…
France compensates a family exposed to herbicide, a first
For the first time in France, a family is compensated following their exposure to glyphosate, the most used herbicide in the world. Experts have recognized a link between the malformations…
AI, a new ally for the hearing impaired
In France, almost half of people diagnosed with hearing loss do not use hearing aids. Still stigmatized, it nevertheless turns out that hearing aids worn early on represent a real…
the government promises caregivers “15 days a year to breathe”
On the occasion of National Carers’ Day, the French Minister of Solidarity Aurore Bergé presented this Friday, October 6, a plan to help these caregivers a little more, who really…
Support plan for carers: “I find this extremely disappointing”
The French Minister of Solidarity unveiled this Friday a government plan to help caregivers. 6,000 places will be created for the elderly and people with disabilities to allow their loved…
Crisis in the hospital sector: “Patients are made to wait at home with antibiotics”
In a column published by the newspaper The world, more than a thousand caregivers, nurses, midwives and hospital doctors are sounding the alarm about the state of emergencies in hospitals…
the bedbug enters the political debate
Bedbugs are entering the political debate in France. After suspicions of the presence of these insects in public transport, the minister in charge of the sector, Clément Beaune, receives the…