Microbiota, “natural killers”, gene therapy: new avenues of research against HIV-AIDS
Will it be possible to end HIV by 2030, as the UNAIDS association aims for? Forty years of research on HIV have made it possible to advance, notably on triple therapy treatments, which prevent...
Serious allergy to an antiseptic: alert from health authorities
Hives, facial swelling and breathing difficulties, even anaphylactic shock... The medicines safety agency (ANSM) has observed a "constant increase in the number of reports of serious allergic reactions associated with chlorhexidine", a bactericidal antiseptic,...
Nicotine and tobacco poisoning of children and adolescents is becoming more and more common
Aromatic beads for cigarettes, sachets of tobacco, nicotine... These products are causing more and more poisoning, mainly among children and adolescents, warns the National Agency for Food Safety and Health. environment and work (ANSES),...
Sweden and Denmark enter technical recession
The Swedish economy has entered a technical recession after registering a fall in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in two consecutive quarters, the Central Statistics Office (SCB, for its acronym in Swedish) reported this...
Holter Supplies: the future of cardiac event recorders
Developed by Norman Holter in the 1960s, the Holter is a portable device for recording, continuously and over a prolonged period, the rhythm and heart rate, in order to identify and detect possible disorders...
Gene injection and “cell juice”: the research feats financed by the Telethon
On December 8 and 9, the traditional television high mass of the French Association against Muscular Dystrophy will take place, with 30 hours of live broadcast and thousands of events throughout France. When the...
Antiepileptics during pregnancy: the risks for the fetus better identified
Reduce the number of high-risk pregnancies by better informing mothers and doctors: the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (ANSM) unveils on Wednesday November 29 a new overview of the...
83% of Spaniards are in favor of inheritance and 61% are in favor of...
Extensive research on inheritances in Spain reflects a familial sociological profile, in which large majorities believe that, regardless of the relationship between parents and children, the parents' assets should pass to their descendants (this...
Inflation moderates three tenths in November to 3.2%
The Consumer Price Index (CPI), the main indicator of inflation, moderates in the interannual rate to 3.2% according to the data advanced by the INE for November, which will not be confirmed until next...
Rising prices, bans in new public places, measures against vaping: strengths and weaknesses of...
“A first generation of adults free of tobacco in 2032”, such is the stated (and ambitious) objective of the Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, as he presented the new anti-smoking plan on Tuesday morning....