Tag: Science and Health
Mental health of adolescents: one more omerta, by Jean-François Copé
Three years after Covid, despite a Ségur, a conference on mental health and psychiatry and almost 2 billion additional euros earmarked until 2025, another epidemic persists. Highlighted during the health…
The Nobel Prize in Medicine for Hungarian Katalin Kariko and American Drew Weissman
The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to the Hungarian Katalin Kariko and the American Drew Weissman for their discoveries in the field of messenger RNA which opened…
Avian flu: how France will vaccinate tens of millions of ducks
It is not just Covid that requires large-scale vaccination plans. From this Monday, the preventive vaccination campaign against the avian flu virus begins for French ducks, after having been officially…
Covid-19: a vaccine booster to protect the most vulnerable
The government finally brought forward the deadline in the face of the epidemic resumption, driven by variants more resistant to vaccines thanks to numerous mutations in the spike protein. The…
Covid-19: everything you need to know before the vaccination campaign which begins this Monday
The Covid-19 vaccination campaign opens this Monday, October 1, two weeks in advance. It was in principle supposed to open at the same time as the one against the flu,…
Bedbugs: “panic”, “disgust”… The concern of the French seen by the foreign press
“Damn it”. In an article published on his site, the Daily Mail devotes a few lines to the panic that is spreading across France over bedbugs. “Videos show blood-sucking creatures…
“We waste hours doing accounting”: pharmacists facing the challenges of back to school
On paper, expanding pharmacists’ prerogatives seems like a good idea. In fact, it adds an additional burden to health professionals who are already suffering from a lack of resources –…
Air pollution in planes: what is “aerotoxic syndrome”?
It is a 63-page legal expertise, produced in public hearing before the administrative court of Nice this summer, and revealed by The Parisian Friday September 29. It confirms the existence…
Papillomavirus vaccines: why France recommends two doses, despite the advice of the WHO
Double ration for French students? From this Monday, October 2, the start date of the national vaccination campaign against papillomavirus (HPV), two injections will be offered to fifth grade students…
Bedbugs: the call for help from Paris town hall
It is a scourge that worries many in the capital. This Thursday, September 28, the Paris town hall asked the government for a plan against bedbugs, having noted a “significant…