Tag: Health and medicine
nitrite exposure associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes
A few months ago, in France, the health authorities confirmed the link between exposure to nitrites, additives added in particular in charcuterie, and the risk of colorectal cancer. Exposure to…
Mental health in the northern districts: access to care has become impossible
/ Podcasts / Great report In the north of Marseille, psychiatry is suffering. In lack of doctors, and recently caregivers. Édouard Toulouse, the only psychiatric hospital in the northern districts,…
Pfizer will sell nearly 500 vaccines and drugs at cost price to the poorest countries
Among the drugs and vaccines concerned, there are products against infectious and chronic diseases, such as diabetes, malaria, respiratory infections which today affect low-income countries. In May 2022, during the…
In France, the record production of Doliprane does not prevent supply tensions
While in France shortages or supply tensions affect several drugs, including paracetamol, the French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi announced on Monday January 16 that it had achieved record production in 2022…
Ehpad: “The responses are not up to the urgency”
Reports of abuse in nursing homes are exploding. The defender of rights presents a report on Monday on living conditions in nursing homes, 18 months after her previous report, which…
screening of agricultural employees generalized from the beginning of February in Martinique
To what degree have farmers been exposed to chlordecone, used since the 1970s in the banana plantations of Martinique and Guadeloupe before being banned in 1993 due to its toxicity?…
China reports more than 60,000 Covid deaths since abandoning its ‘zero-Covid’ policy
The figures released by Beijing only take into account the deaths recorded in medical facilities, but they are the first published since the lifting of health restrictions in the country…
schools and nurseries in France still too exposed to pollutants
This is often the blind spot of environmental struggles. Environmental degradation has a significant impact on our health. The High Council for Public Health has examined 15 years of health-environment…
House Republicans take on abortion
Among the first texts voted by the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives, there is a text relating to abortion. With our correspondent in Washington, Guillaume Naudin It…
many families of the victims present on the first day of the appeal trial
Since Monday, January 9, the case of the Mediator, named after this drug from Servier laboratories, is again before the courts. This drug is responsible for the death of approximately…