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
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
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
The HAS has come out in favor of access for all to the seasonal vaccine from the age of 2 years. In 2022, no less than twelve European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, the United States and New Zealand, recommended vaccination against influenza for healthy children. Will France join them? While the vaccine is … Read more
Three years after the announcement of the first Covid death, the virus is blazing in China. Remember, it was January 11, 2020, China declared that a first patient had died from the mysterious atypical pneumonia reported in Wuhan a few weeks earlier. From that day and very quickly, the disease will be detected all over … Read more
According to this study, “vaccinated people were less exposed to the risk of breathing difficulties” than non-vaccinated people. Most symptoms related to a prolonged but mild form of Covid-19 tend to disappear during the year following the infection of patients with the virus, shows a scientific study published Thursday, January 12. “Most symptoms or conditions … Read more
This winter was marked by a triple epidemic of influenza, bronchiolitis and Covid-19 in a rather unprecedented way. If the indicators are down today, an upward recovery is not impossible. The epidemic of flu continued to decline these last days in France, although it still strikes the whole of the metropolis. Regarding bronchiolitis, it has … Read more
HEALTH ADVICE – Many people go to these saturated services for no good reason. Conversely, others should have called 15 to be taken care of more quickly. Le Figaro make the point. Emergencies are aptly named: you should only go there in an emergency. But how do you know if the situation warrants it? What … Read more