Tag: Science and Health
Bronchiolitis: after children, should we fear a wave in adults?
The 2022-2023 infant bronchiolitis season has started fast and strong. This is evidenced by the frantic pace of arrivals of young patients at the hospital: 7,000 visits to the emergency…
Covid-19: China lifts its quarantine for international travelers, Europeans protect themselves
They will no longer have to lock themselves in, but they still have to come. China has just lifted this Sunday, January 8, the mandatory quarantine for travelers from abroad,…
Are digital technologies taking us away from science? By Etienne Klein
Franz Kafka once wrote: “It is consoling that the disharmony of this world seems to be only numerical.” I admit I’m not sure I fully understand the meaning of this…
How many sexes are there? To put an end to sterile disputes
Between those who fiercely defend that there are only two sexes and those who believe that there are three, five or more, the debates follow one another and are similar…
End of “zero Covid”: China condemned to the success of mass vaccination
Can China still avoid a massacre due to Covid-19? The country must reopen its borders completely this Sunday, January 8 after more than two years under strict confinement, and thus…
Subvariant XBB.1.5: why scientists are waiting
After China, attention turns to the situation across the Atlantic. In the viewfinder: the new sub-variant of Omicron XBB.1.5 which is spreading in the United States at great speed. “XBB.1.5…
Alzheimer’s: what is Leqembi, this new treatment authorized in the United States?
It is not a miracle cure, and the FDA, the American drug agency, does not intend to believe it. By authorizing, this Friday, January 6, the large-scale use of Leqembi,…
Covid-19 and influenza: how reliable are double antigen tests?
For several days, new antigenic tests have been making a lot of noise. These devices, equipped with a single swab, make it possible to detect in a single sample two…
Should the medical consultation increase to 50 euros? Two GPs debate
Yes / Essential to encourage installation By Dr. Jerome Marty, President of the UFML (French Union for Free Medicine) We have been asking for ten years now that the basic…
Emmanuel Macron and health: a page that turns, but at what cost?
A first class funeral. This Friday, January 6, on the occasion of his wishes for health, Emmanuel Macron officially unraveled the “HSPT” law and the hospital reforms implemented by Nicolas…