Tag: Science and Health
Anti-Covid vaccine: new WHO recommendations
Following the meeting of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) in Geneva, the World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its guidance on the Covid vaccine. These new…
The long Covid, a decreasing risk? Good news… but many questions
The long Covid remains shrouded in mystery. The mechanisms involved continue to intrigue scientists and doctors. The precise number of patients affected, the duration and severity of their symptoms, as…
Covid-19: how Europe is dealing with overstocking of vaccines
For the past two weeks, the number of cases linked to Covid-19 has increased again in France, and sporadically in Europe. The situation remains “controlled” and the magnitude of this…
How the war in Ukraine sowed discord at CERN: “Relationships were broken”
The signal ended in March 2022. Since? Radio silence. From CERN, the laboratory to which physics owes one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century, no more scientific message…
Fluoroquinolones: Philippe Coville, the engineer who broke the scandal
First there was the pain. Then the will to understand. The anger came next. Anger at “a system” that failed to protect him. Neither he nor the other patients who…
Switching to summer time: received ideas about our sleep
We always forget in which direction the hands will turn. At two o’clock in the morning on the night of Saturday March 25 to Sunday, it will actually be three…
Alternative medicine: regulating yes, but how? By Professor Ernst
The treatment of patients by practitioners other than qualified doctors has been illegal in France since the 19th century. Yet tens of thousands of alternative “therapists” from various traditions –…
The WHO targeted by Musk: what is this project on pandemics, which arouses fantasies and fake news?
Is Elon Musk spreading ‘fake news’? This is what the boss of the World Health Organization (WHO) thinks, who responded, without naming him, to the accusations of the billionaire, Thursday,…
War in Ukraine: what are the “depleted uranium” shells, which London could supply to kyiv?
With the idea of providing Ukraine with the most effective weapons possible, so that the coming counter-offensive can prove decisive, Great Britain announced, through the voice of its Deputy Minister…
Covid-19: incidence and positivity rates… These indicators on the rise
Will the health indicators turn red again? On March 21, France had 11,519 new confirmed cases, an increase of 15.9% in seven days. Unsurprisingly, the incidence rate has also swelled,…