Tag: Science and Health
Covid-19: incidence and positivity rates… These indicators on the rise
Will the health indicators turn red again? On March 21, France had 11,519 new confirmed cases, an increase of 15.9% in seven days. Unsurprisingly, the incidence rate has also swelled,…
Should local maternity wards be closed? Two specialists discuss
YES / “We must reorganize the sector to deal with the perinatal crisis in France” By Prof. Yves Villehead of the obstetrics gynecology department at Necker Hospital and co-author of…
Multiverse: is another world possible? By Etienne Klein
Everything Everywhere All at Once by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert scooped up seven statuettes at the 2023 Oscars, including Best Picture. It tells the story – or rather THE…
“The Sorcerer’s Apprentices”: Alexandra Henrion Caude, or the art of twisting scientific facts
Some 15,000 copies sold in four days. Rare are the books that can boast of such success… As soon as it was released on March 8, sorcerer’s apprentices, the antivax…
AI beneficial for medicine? “Some perspectives are quite dizzying”
An artificial intelligence capable of answering almost all of your questions, or of listening to a speech and summarizing it… The latest version of Chat-GPT presented this week pushes the…
Links between anti-Covid vaccines and cancer: “We, oncologists, refute this theory”
We, oncologists, would like to take a public position on the currently highly publicized topic of a supposed link between anti-Covid vaccination and an increase in cancer cases. Thus, some…
Covid-19, the enigma of origins: what if raccoon dogs were the key?
A new piece has just been added to the puzzle on the origins of Covid-19. An international team of scientists assured Thursday, March 16 to have for the first time…
Pr Flahault: “After the Covid, a dozen infectious agents could generate a new pandemic”
“We are at war”. On March 16, 2020, Emmanuel Macron announced the first confinement. Faced with Covid-19, France is barricading itself. The streets empty. Nature even takes back its rights,…
Fluoroquinolones: a new scandal that says a lot about the flaws in our healthcare system
After Pick, Levothyrox, or Androcur, will fluoroquinolones be added to the list of health scandals that regularly shake our country? These broad-spectrum antibiotics can cause potentially serious side effects: tendon…
Mental health of children: “The figures are alarming”
Do French children and adolescents have a problem with medication? In a report published on Monday, the High Council for the Family, Childhood and Age (HCFEA) warns of the explosion…