Tag: Science and Health
Ultra-processed foods, the real health scandal
Chris van Tulleken: “Ultra-processed foods are designed to ‘hack’ our brains” For the British doctor, author of the bestseller “Ultra-Processed People”, ultra-processed foods represent the root cause of the obesity…
Why the “Ciarán” storm arriving in France is exceptional – L’Express
It will shake up in the coming days. While yellow vigilance for wind, floods, storms, rain-flooding is maintained in forty-three French departments this Monday, October 30, meteorologists are worried about…
Removing the AME will indirectly affect all French people, by Professor Gilles Pialoux – L’Express
Once again, politicians are attacking state medical aid (AME). The Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin said he was in favor of its removal in favor of a degraded process…
an upward trend and cases ever further north – L’Express
Although most of the time it is not serious, dengue fever can cause severe headaches, vomiting, high fever and, in rare cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever, can lead to fatal…
In 250 million years, the Earth will be almost uninhabitable (and we will have nothing to do with it) – L’Express
What is being built? What is destroyed? Where are we going ? We are largely unaware of it, but it is paradoxically because we have understood something: through new and…
Frozen meals, 0% organic yogurts… How to spot ultra-processed foods – L’Express
Bad for health and for the figure, addictive, also harmful for the planet: over the course of scientific studies, ultra-processed foods appear increasingly problematic. Recent publications in major scientific journals…
are we going to replay the scenario of last winter? – The Express
Specialists have been sounding the alarm for several months. Thursday October 26, it is the pharmacist Pierre-Olivier Variot, president of the Union of Unions of Community Pharmacists (USPO), who sticks…
Medicines, vaccines… Sanofi’s new strategy – L’Express
The French pharmaceutical group is changing its strategy. Sanofi announced, Friday October 27, its intention to separate from its “Consumer Health” activity in 2024 to focus on innovative medicines and…
Spasfon ineffective? The story of an astonishing French exception – L’Express
This is the elephant in the room. A widely consumed drug, so established in our habits and those of our doctors that we no longer even question it. A urinary…
Dolirhume, Humex… The real reasons why the ANSM does not suspend them – L’Express
Contraindicated, but self-service? For around twenty years, health alerts have been piling up around pseudoephedrine, a decongestant used against colds in drugs such as Humex, Dolirhume or Actifed and which…