Tag: Science and Health
Hospital: why the strike has a limited impact on patients
Operation “zero stretchers” in the corridors of emergencies. The doctors of the public hospital are called to strike on July 3 and 4, to denounce the lack of attractiveness of…
Bac reform: ministries need scientific advice, by Franck Ramus
The school year that is ending has made it possible to measure the impact of the last reform of high school and the baccalaureate, launched in 2018: early final exams,…
Euclid, the European telescope in pursuit of the dark side of the Universe
Successful takeoff. This Saturday, July 1 at 5:12 p.m. (French time), Euclid, a revolutionary space telescope, took off from Cape Canaveral (United States) in the direction of space in order…
Toxic substances in senators’ hair: the gray areas behind the publicity stunt
The announcement caused a stir. Twenty-six socialist senators, who in July 2022 entrusted a lock of their hair to the private laboratory ToxSeek to screen for 1,800 organic pollutants and…
Innovative medicines, difficult to access in France? The battle of numbers
Too chilly, too slow, or bureaucratic, the French health agencies? In recent weeks, more and more voices have been raised against these institutions. Because of them, many French patients would…
At the CNRS, the bureaucracy heats the spirits: “You have to stamp everything triple”
“Administrative obstacles” to the CNRS? Pierre laughs yellow. “I have an anecdote, you will quickly understand,” slips this sociologist in his sixties, who preferred to remain anonymous. The researcher works…
What is Oxycodone? The Express explains everything
This week, Stéphanie Benz, deputy editor-in-chief of the Sciences and Health department of L’Express, explains to you what oxycodone is, the growing use of which in a large quarter of…
“Thank you to ladies Badinter, Rosencher and Shalmani”… Our readers react
Housing or pensions? Michel Guerin, Eguilles (Bouches-du-Rhône) The question of housing is, in my opinion, a much more worrying subject than the question of pensions, which has monopolized attention in…
Covid-19: where is the circulation of the virus in France?
What remains of this epidemic? For several months, the Covid-19 has been almost non-existent in the public debate. If it was only a distant memory, masks and social distancing are…
“Alternative medicine”: increased therapeutic drift since the Covid crisis
Aromatherapy, kinesiology, lithotherapy… Unconventional care practices, in full explosion, are neither supervised nor monitored, denounces the Order of Physicians in a report published on Tuesday June 27, alerting to “therapeutic…