Tag: Science and Health
Bronchiolitis in the elderly: the prospect of a messenger RNA vaccine
And one more success on the horizon for messenger RNA. This Tuesday, January 17, the American biotech Moderna announced that its vaccine against the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), responsible for…
Séverine Erhel: “The analogies between social networks and drugs pose a problem”
The excessive use of social networks by the youngest is increasingly feared. Violent content, insults, harassment… The moderation of these platforms, often limited when it is not non-existent, is not…
Pr Alain Fischer’s prescription to save French medical research
Share in world scientific publications, university rankings, international prizes, contracts won with the European research council… Whatever the indicators examined, all converge towards the same observation: the weakening of France…
Shortage of medicines: is France penalized for its too low prices?
After paracetamol and corticosteroids, it is now amoxicillin, the most prescribed antibiotic for children, which pharmacies in France are sorely lacking. So much so that some pharmacies have started to…
Noise, a public health issue too often ignored
“Hell is the noise of others”, could have written Jean-Paul Sartre. In a post-lockdown world linked to Covid, the imposed silence has made us aware of its impact on our…
The man older than the woman in the couple, a model that has persisted for 250,000 years
In movies and on dating apps, men tend to look for women younger than them. But what about the distant past? A study recently published in the journal Science Advances…
Covid-19 in China: the authorities recognize at least 60,000 deaths for a month
After three years of some of the most draconian restrictions in the world, China abruptly lifted most of its health measures against the coronavirus in early December 2022. As a…
Flu, Covid, bronchiolitis… Why ventilation is still too neglected
Before the emergence of modern medicine, disease transmission was explained by miasmas. With the work of Louis Pasteur and other hygienists, this thesis of “bad air” will gradually become synonymous…
What DNA tells us about our immune system
A bit of everything and its opposite has been said about Neanderthal Man and his role in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to Homo sapiens sapiens that we are. At the…
Amoxicillin shortage: pharmacists to the rescue of the drug industry
In the heart of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, in the Saint-Michel district, a pharmacy manufactures the most prescribed antibiotic in France, which is currently in short supply: amoxicillin. For…