Tag: Science and Health
Drugs: towards lower prices? Pharmacists engage in a standoff with the State
Pharmacists are angry. The main pharmacists’ unions as well as the players in the pharmaceutical sector refused to sit on Thursday, January 26, on the generic monitoring committee organized by…
Parkinson’s disease: new risk factors identified in women
What are the factors that increase the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease in women? The too few scientific studies on the subject are, moreover, sometimes contradictory. Fortunately, new work published…
Covid-19: the mystery of the “Never Coviders” agitates scientists
They are the natural survivors of Covid-19. To the point that the Anglo-Saxons have found a new classification for them: the “Never Coviders”, namely people who have never contracted the…
Covid-19: three years after the first case, how can France test better?
The health sky is clearing and the epidemiological counters are turning green again. In recent days, France has fallen below the bar of 5,000 positive cases per day. Unheard of…
PODCAST. The “Swot” satellite, a scientific (and economic) revolution
In this episode of La Loupe, Xavier Yvon recounts this small revolution with multiple implications with Sébastien Pommier, from the Economy department of L’Express. Listen to this episode and subscribe…
Flu: 9 million vaccinated and a growing campaign
The flu vaccination will last for another month. This was announced together, Friday, January 20, the Ministry of Health, Health Insurance and Public Health France. Initially scheduled until January 31,…
Nuclear fusion: we dream of mastering it, but are we really talking about energy? By Etienne Klein
Energy regularly makes the front page of our media, but do our ways of saying it do it justice? Do they take into account what we know about her? This…
Shortages: should drug prices be increased? Two experts debate
Yes / Upgrades are essential By Eric BaseilhacDirector of Economic Affairs of Leem (Medicine Companies). The shortage of amoxicillin has marked our fellow citizens. It is explained by the slowdown…
PODCAST. What is the “power nap”? The Express explains everything
This week in La Loupe, Xavier Yvon and Valentin Ehkirch, from the Science department, explain to us what “power nap” is. Listen to this episode and subscribe to La Loupe…
Insurrection in Brazil: “Among the rioters, a profile returns, that of Uncle WhatsApp”
The scenes of the invasion of the Presidential Palace of Planalto, the Supreme Court and the seat of Congress, on January 8 in Brasília (Brazil), seemed unreal. Convinced that Lula…