Tag: Health and medicine
Is health security in decline?
Debate of the day Searches took place this Wednesday, April 13, in a Buitoni factory in northern France and at the headquarters of its owner Nestlé. The reason: the discovery,…
the soaring Omicron, Shanghai to the balcony
Fifteen districts are now affected by containment relief, this Tuesday, April 12, in Shanghai, despite the continued outbreak of the Omicron variant (23,342 new infections are reported for the day…
Thailand launches national human genome sequencing program
Thai scientists want to put the genetic heritage on the world map. A major challenge for a country that is still largely under-represented in global studies. From our correspondent in…
In China, Shanghai is trying to get out of strict confinement
The containment relief measures, announced this weekend in Shanghai, began on Monday, April 11. Residents of certain areas can move on the streets again, but this remains very limited and…
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka nearly runs out of drugs
Sri Lankan doctors warned on Sunday April 10 that they were almost out of life-saving drugs, stressing that the economic crisis was likely to claim more victims on the island…
In France, an “independent” association to fuel the debate on nursing homes
An “Observatory of the great age” (Ogra) has just been born in France, in the wake of the scandal of the accommodation establishments for dependent elderly people (Ehpad) private Orpea…
in the United States, Oklahoma votes to ban abortion almost completely
Yesterday Tuesday April 5 during the vote, reports USA Todaymore than a hundred demonstrators chanted in front of the Oklahoma City Capitol: Leave our bodies alone with your bans »,…
end of the judicial information, towards a dismissal
After fifteen years of investigation into poisoning with chlordecone in Martinique and Guadeloupe, the investigating judges of the Paris court pronounced on March 25 the end of the investigations, without…
the investigation report corroborates the facts denounced in the book “Les Fossoyeurs”
The report on Orpea and its retirement homes has just been made public by the Ministry of Solidarity and Health. He also points to major shortcomings. The General Inspectorate of…
In Cameroon, the arm wrestling continues between MSF and the authorities
It has been nearly a week since the humanitarian NGO Doctors Without Borders unilaterally announced the suspension of its activities in southwestern Cameroon. A resounding decision, probably an expression of…