The double punishment of employees suffering from chronic illness

2023-12-14 05:00:07 Office notebook. Cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, asthma, HIV, depression… Chronic diseases, constantly increasing, will affect 25% of the working population in 2025, compared to 15% in 2019, according to the National Agency for the Improvement of Conditions of work (Anact). These are situations that managers cannot consider as a parenthesis in the lives … Read more

Midwives authorized to perform instrumental abortion in a hospital environment

2023-12-14 05:00:39 A room at the instrumental abortion experimentation center, at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, in Paris, December 12, 2023. EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP The development was expected, but the context in which it has just been made official gives it particular relief: in the wake of the presentation, in the Council of Ministers, Tuesday, December 12, of … Read more

the preliminary bill arouses the “anger” of the collective of caregivers opposed to active assistance in dying

2023-12-14 14:10:14 A barrage intended to be a deterrent. While the executive plans to present a bill on the end of life “during February”a provisional version of the text arouses ” anger “ of caregivers hostile to active assistance in dying, in a press release published Thursday, December 14. They are reacting to a first … Read more

the actors of the “start of the war in Pissevin” in court

2023-12-14 18:54:48 This was before the Pissevin city, in Nîmes, hit the headlines with the death, in August 2023, of Fayed, a 10-year-old child, killed in his uncle’s car which was mistakenly targeted by drug traffickers’ gunfire. . Collateral victim of a drug turf war whose first chapter, that of 2020, is being judged by … Read more

Belgium’s Response to Covid-19 Crisis: OECD Report and Evaluation

2023-12-14 12:20:00 Belgium has mobilized significant human, financial and technical resources to minimize the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis. If certain measures have borne fruit, others could have been better, according to the report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) evaluating Belgium’s response to the pandemic, presented Thursday in Brussels by the … Read more

The 2024 Prescribe List: Dangerous Medications to Avoid

2023-12-13 21:49:30 AFP In a pharmacy in Paris, April 29, 2020. AFP In a pharmacy in Paris, April 29, 2020. MEDICATIONS – Every year, the medical journal Prescribe publishes an updated list of drugs judged “more dangerous than useful”. In total, 105 appear in this 2024 edition, of which 88 are marketed in France. In … Read more

The “almond mom”, this mother who has complexes about her daughters’ weight

2023-12-13 05:00:16 PWhen I was young, I often went to lunch with one of my childhood friends who we will call Lara. At the table with his parents and his little sister, I was like a second family. Until her mother, Sophie, started making everyone uncomfortable (especially me!). “Lara, you should stop eating so much, … Read more

the Ministry of Health is putting a twist on the alcohol-free month

2023-12-13 16:50:08 It is not yet this year, it seems, that the government will give its official support to the “January Challenge”, this month ” alcohol-free “ supported by prevention associations. The debate reignited with the questioning of the Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, by around fifty academics and teachers of addiction. In a letter … Read more