Tag: Science and Health
Medicines: four questions about the shortage affecting France
“The shortage has been our daily life for months,” sighs Stéphanie. This pharmacist based in Côte-d’Or contacts laboratories, wholesalers and even doctors every day, in vain. The display dedicated to…
Doctors’ strike: seven concrete examples of simplification to give back medical time
Finding an appointment with a general practitioner is sometimes difficult, and this access to care will be further restricted in the current decade, due to poor past and current political…
Why the liberal doctors’ strike divides the profession
A great classic of conventional negotiations. Every five years, health insurance and medical unions renegotiate the contract that binds them. And every five years, collectives of professionals emerge and become…
The “Damp January”, good for health or blessed bread for the alcohol lobby?
To drink or not to drink? This is the question for many French people still intoxicated by the end-of-year feasts. On the one hand, the “Dry January” challenge encourages us…
Hospital: were there 150 deaths “for lack of care” in the emergency room in December?
Will Emmanuel Macron become aware of the extent of the crisis that the health system is going through in France? Two days before the wishes of the Head of State…
Covid-19: what is this Omicron XBB.1.5 variant that is exploding in the United States?
While all eyes have so far been riveted on the health situation in China, where the number of contagions is exploding, the progression of a new sub-variant is now worrying…
Who is this group of doctors behind the strike?
After the SNCF, which saw thousands of controllers go on strike for Christmas, it is the turn of general medicine to have its informal collective from social networks. The latter,…
Detox cures after the holidays: why it is useless and risky, by Pr Ernst
Every year around this time, we feel that things have to change. We look in the mirror and are shocked. We try to squeeze our new pounds into our jeans,…
Vaccines, rapid tests, oxygenation… The Covid, a turning point in medical progress
In many ways, they will remain a miracle in the backyard of this global Covid-19 epidemic. Messenger RNA vaccines have been designed, tested, manufactured and brought to market at unprecedented…
The Universe is also evolving: what does that mean? By Etienne Klein
Everyone knows it: Charles Darwin’s work on the evolution of living species revolutionized biology after the publication in 1859 of his book The Origin of Species. When it comes to…