The emergencies of Strasbourg University Hospitals saturated, a union takes legal action

2023-12-13 10:02:50 The public prosecutor of Strasbourg, Yolande Renzi, was contacted by the Force Ouvrière section of the University Hospitals of the Alsatian capital (HUS), the union announced Tuesday evening. The goal ? “Report facts that could be qualified as failure to assist a person in danger,” explains FO in a press release, before going … Read more

The Telethon between first medical victories and 95% of rare diseases still without treatment

2023-12-08 07:00:00 «20 years ago we only talked about tragedies and deaths», recalls Laurence Tiennot-Herment when she took over as president of the AFM-Téléthon. Since 2018, she has been delighted “a real acceleration of results and victories“. Thanks to donations, Généthon, the association’s laboratory, has enabled revolutionary breakthroughs in the understanding and even treatment of … Read more

Hépar water is (finally) back on the shelves, but it will cost you more

2023-12-05 14:48:09 Good news for Hépar fans. Water rich in magnesium will make a comeback on supermarket shelves this week. Deliveries, which had been increasingly spaced out for several months due to the drought, will be rescheduled. In the columns of West Francethe Nestlé Waters group, which markets Hépar, announced a gradual return to the … Read more

What is this eco-friendly battery, made of “materials found in the Grand-Est”?

2023-12-02 07:02:37 With their eco-designed battery, they hit the nail on the head. Aequo, a start-up Strasbourg, is on the verge of getting noticed in this highly coveted market. Specializing in the development of eco-designed electrical energy production and storage solutions, Aequo has embarked on the design of a non-toxic, safe, and easily recyclable battery … Read more

The largest recycled PET plastic factory in France opens its doors

2023-11-19 14:49:54 A former steel “slag” converted to the circular economy. The largest recycled PET plastic production plant in France has just opened in Messein, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, near Nancy. This plastic is mainly used to make water bottles and food containers, or textiles (fleece, sports clothing, etc.). It is the only one that is easily … Read more

Geolith created a process to produce clean lithium… by filtering water

2023-11-16 10:00:00 Lithium filters, capable of extracting the precious metal from very low concentrated brines, of the order of 0.1 to 0.2%. The innovation of Geolith, the startup whose 25 employees are shared between the head office in Orsay (Essonne) and Schiltigheim (Bas-Rhin) for pre-production, is of great interest to lithium producers. Because today, this … Read more

The unknown woman who saved a man after a cardiac arrest still not found

2023-10-25 10:22:01 On October 24 at the end of the afternoon, a man collapsed in the city center of Reims (Marne), victim of cardiorespiratory arrest. Two passers-by were at the scene at the time. A woman intervened directly to perform a cardiac massage on the victim, reports France 3 Grand Est. Before help arrived on … Read more