DECRYPTION – Feelings, especially the most intense ones, occur at all stages of memorization. Fear is the most “efficient” for remembering an event. Do you remember that day when, on a bicycle, a car almost ran over you? Even if it was a long time ago, there is a good chance that the fear felt … Read more
In France, only one drug is available but its effects remain modest. Yet there are potentially effective new treatments that take too long to reach patients. With Charcot’s disease, life expectancy hardly exceeds a few years. New treatments could offer invaluable months of life. But their authorization is slow in Europe, to the regret of … Read more
On TikTok in particular, some Internet users praise Ozempic and film themselves injecting themselves with the pen with the active ingredient of this drug, prescribed for type 2 diabetics, and which would promote rapid weight loss without effort. Videos viewed tens of thousands of times and which have gone viral. Result: in pharmacies, a new … Read more
The pandemic is also a success story in Africa According to the WHO Africa Director, successes like this deserve more attention: “Sometimes we focus too much on the negative effects of the pandemic. We learned a lot, built new capacities and expanded the reach of our health services.« The investments in the fight against Covid-19 … Read more
The flu epidemic has resumed in recent days, but health authorities are seeing a slowdown in contamination. The flu epidemic seems to have continued to rebound in recent days, although contaminations are decreasing, the public health agency summarized on Wednesday. Last week, Public Health France indeed recorded a “continued increase in all influenza indicators in … Read more
Prolonged and excessive intake of this drug, a combination of ibuprofen and codeine, can cause renal and intestinal toxicity which can lead to death in some patients. Prolonged and excessive intake of the drug Antarene Codeine, a combination of the two painkillers ibuprofen and codeine, can lead to renal and intestinal toxicity which can lead … Read more
There has been nationwide newborn screening in Germany since 2016. Since then, every newborn has been tested for a genetic change that leads to cystic fibrosis. Before drugs came along, the conversations that Krystina Poplawska had to have with the parents of affected newborns were often frustrating: she had to explain to them that anything … Read more
Some microorganisms become less sensitive to antibiotics due to their overuse. But the UN also points to other factors, such as pollution linked to the pharmaceutical industry and agriculture. Reducing pollution from the pharmaceutical and agricultural sectors is essential to combat the proliferation of drug-resistant superbugs, which could kill 10 million people a year by … Read more