Tag: Science and Health
In the United States, the worrying explosion of cases of syphilis in infants – L’Express
The worrying surge in sexually transmitted infections in the United States is having catastrophic consequences. American health authorities sounded the alert on Tuesday, November 8, regarding the increase in cases…
Anti-colds, cough syrup… In pharmacies, the business of useless (and dangerous) medicines – L’Express
There are anti-colds, these drugs based on pseudoephedrine which unclog the nose but can cause strokes. Cough syrups too, based on ambroxol or bromhexine: they have no clinical effect but…
the last “provocation” of Didier Raoult – L’Express
“It’s a provocation, one more scandal,” denounces Professor Mathieu Molimard. The head of the medical pharmacology department at Bordeaux University Hospital, member of the French Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics…
a European summit to overcome the crisis in the sector – L’Express
What is Europe’s space future? It is this broad question which should be at the center of the debates at the European space summit which opens this Saturday in Seville,…
the “hidden costs” of our food – L’Express
Obesity, nitrogen emissions or undernutrition… Current agri-food systems impose hidden costs on health, the environment and society amounting to more than 10,000 billion dollars per year, estimates the United Nations…
Mathilde Touvier, a scientist facing the lobbies – L’Express
The concept of ultra-processed foods (AUT) was born in Brazil, in the laboratory of Professor Carlos Monteiro. But it was the work of the Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team (Eren), led…
a threat to global health, by Professor Alain Fischer – L’Express
Global warming is a reality of the Anthropocene. It will soon exceed the +1.5°C predicted at the Paris Climate Conference and risks reaching +3°C in the decades to come. Extreme…
composite portrait of victims and perpetrators – L’Express
How to better fight against cyberbullying? In recent years, the phenomenon has taken on a worrying scale, highlighted by the media and scientists. So, according to a Franco-Canadian study published…
why current strategies miss the wrong target – L’Express
The nutritional recommendations widely adopted throughout the world and in France were inspired by the conclusions of American committees at the end of the 1970s. They did not prevent an…
it becomes urgent to complete the Nutri-Score, and to impose it – L’Express
Have the large agri-food and distribution groups won the battle? Europe had included in its strategy Farm to fork (from farm to fork) in favor of more sustainable food the…