Tag: Health and medicine
in Sydney, striking nursing staff demand more resources
In Australia, the nursing staff of Sydney hospitals walked off this Tuesday, June 28, a major strike movement which occurs in reaction to the announcement of the budget allocated to…
Inscription of the right to abortion in the French Constitution: “A purely symbolic approach”
Should the right to abortion be included in the Constitution in France? This is a debate that has been going on since the decision of the American Supreme Court to…
Faced with the seventh wave of Covid-19, France is currently banking on vaccination
Faced with the seventh wave of the Covid-19 epidemic, the government is banking on vaccination and “citizen responsibility”, and excludes at this stage the return of health measures such as…
In Côte d’Ivoire, activists for abortion authorization fear a setback
The decision of the American Supreme Court to revoke the right to abortion is reacting even in Africa. On the continent, voluntary termination of pregnancy remains prohibited in a large…
discourage abortions to revive a declining birth rate
China was a leader in abortions under the one-child policy. Will she go back to revive births? This is the concern of women’s rights activists in the face of the…
consternation all around the world
The dismayed reactions multiply after the decision of the American Supreme Court to revoke the right to abortion. From now on, each State is entitled to prohibit it, to restrict…
faced with staffing problems, hospitals fear a difficult summer
Almost all hospitals in France are facing staffing problems. This is what emerges, among other things, from a study carried out between April and May 2022 by the French Hospital…
The Constances epidemiological cohort will soon stop
Created more than ten years ago to facilitate scientific research, the Constances cohort brings together 220,000 volunteers in France. The data it collects are a great tool for studying the…
Faced with the return of Covid-19, France fears a less obvious vaccine recall
The French health authorities are calling on the oldest who have not yet done so, and there are many of them, to receive their second booster shot. And if the…
Bayer weakened after US Supreme Court ruling on Roundup
The Supreme Court of the United States on Tuesday, June 21, refused an appeal by Monsanto, owned by Bayer, making final its judgment to pay 25 million dollars to a…