Adacap: a laboratory at the cutting edge of nuclear medicine
Adacap (or Advanced Accelerator Applications) is a French radiopharmaceutical laboratory founded in 2002 with the aim of commercializing diagnostic radiomedicine technology. Initially, these so-called...
Why brain, liver or kidney are not quite the same depending on whether you...
Some differences between males and females are obvious, and visible to the naked eye. But sexual variation also exists in the cells of non-genital...
Reassure children and their parents before having an MRI
Getting an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is rarely a pleasant experience. And it is even less so for children. “The child enters the tunnel, it...
First larynx transplant in France: a patient regains her speech
“It feels strange to speak again,” comments Karine, who in September benefited from the first larynx transplant carried out in France. An intervention announced...
Shakira agrees to a million-dollar fine and admits tax fraud to avoid prison
In just ten minutes, the Colombian artist appeared before the Barcelona Court this Monday to ratify the agreement that her defense reached at the...
The cost of absenteeism grows by 15%, up to 25,000 million
The mutual collaborators of Social Security protect 18,556,113 workers, 80% of employees and self-employed workers registered in the social protection system. In its report...
Heart: Marfan syndrome, a genetic disease better detected, better operated
One person in 5,000 - and the result, perhaps, of major arterial problems. Marfan syndrome affects around 13,000 people in France. It is a...
Morning after pill: sales up sharply for two years
The “morning after pill”, or more precisely hormonal emergency contraception, is on the rise: sales have increased by 40% over the past two years,...
Glaucoma: how to protect the optic nerve
An optic nerve which is damaged, most often following too high pressure inside the eye. And a field of vision that narrows, from the...
Cataract: an artificial lens to correct all vision
Cataract surgery is the most frequently performed operation in France with nearly 1 million interventions in 2022. This age-related pathology results from the opacification...