Tag: Science and Health
Pensions: with a stricken occupational medicine, who will take care of the hardship?
In the complexity of the debates on pension reform, there is a discriminating criterion which cannot leave anyone indifferent: the vague notion of “difficulty at work”. The stakes are high…
PODCAST. How Covid-19 has advanced medicine
In this new episode of La Loupe, Xavier Yvon reviews the innovations linked to Covid, with Stéphanie Benz, Health journalist at L’Express, and Anne-Claude Crémieux, infectious disease specialist and author…
Social networks and religion: between young people and science, an unprecedented mistrust
An edifying development among young people: in 1972, 55% of 18-24 year olds believed that science brought more good than harm. In 2022, this proportion fell to 22%, a drop…
Prince Harry and his misfortunes, counter-advertisement for EMDR, by Pr Ernst
Right now, it’s almost impossible to escape the hubbub that surrounds Prince Harry and the problems he’s causing the royal family. Whether you listen to the radio, read a newspaper…
Nathalie Cabrol: “To think that we are alone in the Universe is a statistical aberration”
“You have to be attentive to intersections. Not necessarily road intersections, but those of existence.” Nathalie Cabrol has the short hair of a Joan Baez and the outspokenness of a…
Mediator case: “88 drugs still expose patients to disproportionate risks”
The Mediator case is back in court. The appeal trial, which started on Monday, January 9, is scheduled to last six months. At first instance, the Servier laboratories and their…
Bronchiolitis: after children, should we fear a wave in adults?
The 2022-2023 infant bronchiolitis season has started fast and strong. This is evidenced by the frantic pace of arrivals of young patients at the hospital: 7,000 visits to the emergency…
Covid-19: China lifts its quarantine for international travelers, Europeans protect themselves
They will no longer have to lock themselves in, but they still have to come. China has just lifted this Sunday, January 8, the mandatory quarantine for travelers from abroad,…
Are digital technologies taking us away from science? By Etienne Klein
Franz Kafka once wrote: “It is consoling that the disharmony of this world seems to be only numerical.” I admit I’m not sure I fully understand the meaning of this…
How many sexes are there? To put an end to sterile disputes
Between those who fiercely defend that there are only two sexes and those who believe that there are three, five or more, the debates follow one another and are similar…