Tag: Health and medicine
Chlordecone still impacts cognitive development in children
Despite the cessation of its use in the Antilles 30 years ago as an insecticide, chlordecone persisting in the environment continues to contaminate populations. An international research team, involving researchers…
the bill that agitates France arrives in the Senate this week
After a week of respite, the debate on pensions resumes in the French Parliament, but in the Senate this time, from Tuesday February 28. The sequence promises, on paper, more…
the taboo around suicide is difficult to lift in Côte d’Ivoire
A panel of psychologists, psychiatrists and activists gathered this weekend of February 25-26 at the Bushman Hotel in Abidjan, on the initiative of the NGO GT Foundation, for a suicide…
sharp increase in alcohol consumption at the refreshment bar of the National Assembly
The twenty days of heated debate around the pension reform have accentuated a trend: the sometimes excessive consumption of alcohol by some deputies. A situation that could become problematic. ”…
“Emergencies or not emergencies, pediatric survival manual”
/ Podcasts / Book France You are parents, when should you worry when your child has a fever, has received a blow? A pediatric emergency doctor answers you. ” Doctor…
in Kharkiv, a decompression chamber before returning to the front
One after the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, on the military ground, fatigue sets in. To last in the long term by taking care of the morale…
Life expectancy in good health: “Behind the average situation, there are strong inequalities”
A study on life expectancy in good health published on Thursday shows that at age 65, a Frenchman can live another eleven years and three months without disability, and a…
the government believes it has made “a lot of effort”
The government has made a lot of efforts “in the negotiation on consultation rates with the unions of liberal doctors, to whom the Minister of Health, François Braun, asked, this…
Media treatment of the Palmade affair: “There is a process of identification in the news item”
Twelve days after the road accident caused by the French comedian Pierre Palmade, the first French channel of continuous information is still in special edition to tell the consequences of…
the Court gives the floor to the victims
Servier laboratories, which manufactured the Mediator, this drug responsible for the death of around 2,000 people in France, and the disability of thousands of others due to its toxicity on…