For the first time in France, a couple has just been given authorisation to entrust a private company with the storage of umbilical cord cells from their unborn child, in view of a potential therapeutic need. In its Order dated 21 November 2016, the Grasse court authorised the couple to “take and store haematopoietic cells […]
In a traumatic event, such as the attacks on Paris on 13 November 2015, and on Nice on 14 July 2016, the risk for victims and witnesses of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is high. PTSD is characterised by several symptoms: the person relives the event in the form of recurrent memories, nightmares or flashbacks, […]
©Fotolia On the night of Saturday 29 October to Sunday 30 October 2016, at 3 am it will be 2 am. This time change is not without effects on human physiology and health. When, in April 1784, Benjamin Franklin wrote in the Journal de Paris that getting up an hour earlier in winter would reduce […]
Sentinelles network’s bulletin of 19 October 2016 According to the Sentinelles network’s weekly bulletin of 19 October 2016, the incidence rate of acute diarrhoea reached epidemic levels in metropolitan France last week, with 155 cases observed in general medicine clinics per 100 000 inhabitants. The Sentinelles network adds that the current level of gastroenteritis is […]
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016 is awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy. Yoshinori Ohsumi. Ill. Niklas Elmehed. Read the press release
To resist the temptation of a beer in order to save and buy a bike later? At the end of the day, fatigue would encourage us to choose the immediate reward instead. This is what is revealed by a study published in PNAS and conducted by Bastien Blain, a researcher at Inserm Unit 1127. Behavioural […]
Organised by the French National Union of Dermatologists (SNDV), and supported by the French National Cancer Institute (INCa), the 18th edition of the National Day of Screening for Skin Cancer will be held on Thursday, 26 May 2016, to highlight the risks of UV exposure, and to raise awareness about the measures for protecting oneself […]
In 2015, a study conducted by Pierre Meneton, entitled “Unemployment is associated with high cardiovascular event rate and increased all-cause mortality in middle-aged socially privileged individuals,” was published in the International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. The results suggest that there may be an association between unemployment and poorer cardiovascular health, unlinked to other […]
This Thursday, 24 March, the Ministry of Agriculture confirmed an isolated case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, at a farm in Ardennes. The case was detected in a 5-year-old cow sent for rendering, “a method for processing animals that die on farms, and are therefore not intended for human consumption,” states […]
These diseases are a group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels, such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease (stroke), peripheral arterial disease, heart failure, rheumatic heart disease, congenital heart disease and cardiomyopathy. Heart Day, initiated by Alliance du Cœur and held on 14 February every year, the symbolic date of St. […]