Scientists from one of the world's leading epidemiology centres, the American Johns Hopkins University, have just published an article that opens up unexpected prospects in these gloomy epidemic times. They explain how viral antibodies, contained in the blood serum of patients cured of coronavirus, could then be used to treat the disease.
PlusAcross Europe, the weekend of 14 March will mark a turning point in the approach to the coronavirus crisis. States of alert, population confinement, bans on going out, social distancing measures are being announced one after the other. Europe closes shop and Schengen collapses: Germany restores its
PlusThe coronavirus pandemic that has hit the world requires a war effort. On the front lines, biotech labs are working tirelessly to discover new weapons to treat and test affected patients and to contain the epidemic in the long term. European laboratories, which are among
PlusFor the majority of people, coronavirus infection will have no major consequences. But for a small fraction of those infected, it will be a matter of life and death. If the epidemic figures continue to rise, the small percentage of people who will be in vital need of medical assistance
PlusEmmanuel Hirsch is Professor of Medical Ethics and President of the Council for Research Ethics and Scientific Integrity at the University of Paris-Saclay. In this forum for UP', he proposes the organization in the coming days of a citizens' convention to allow urgent consultation on the choices that will be imposed on our country.
PlusAccording to a study recently published in the medical journal Cardiovascular Research, air pollution is responsible for shortening the lives of people around the world on a much larger scale than wars and other forms of violence, parasitic and vector-borne diseases such as
PlusResearchers from the Centre for Infection and Immunity in Lille (CNRS/Inserm/Institut Pasteur de Lille/University of Lille/CHU Lille) and their colleagues from INRAE have revealed for the first time in mice that disturbances in the intestinal microbiota caused by the influenza virus favour secondary bacterial superinfections. Published in the
PlusThey are as old as life itself, but scientists cannot say for sure if they are alive. Viruses are embedded in our DNA, shaping the human saga through mutation and resistance. We touch hundreds of millions of them every day. Like the new epidemic of
PlusLe coronavirus nous met face à un grave problème. Cependant, il faut se souvenir que l’une des premières victimes du coronavirus aura été l’économie. S’il est important de rendre compte de l’évolution de la situation, il faut également mettre l’accent sur les informations positives. Et elles existent aussi : voici dix
PlusThe coronavirus of Chinese origin is spreading, triggering epidemics in many countries at the same time, and now threatens to spread around the world like a full-blown pandemic. All the governments of the states in which patients have been identified are announcing that the spread is inevitable and that it is
PlusCela aurait pu être un pangolin. Ou une chauve-souris. Ou, comme le suggère une théorie maintenant démystifiée qui a fait le tour du web, un serpent. La course pour identifier la source animale de COVID-19, le coronavirus qui piège actuellement plus de 150 millions de personnes dans des quarantaines et
PlusThe coronavirus COVID-19 continued to spread on Wednesday across the world which, according to a WHO expert, "is simply not ready to deal with it". The December epidemic in central China has already reached a peak in that country, where it infected some
PlusThe coronavirus epidemic in China and now throughout the world has been adding to the long list of disasters and predictions of disasters that is updated daily over the past few weeks: drought, collapse of biodiversity, food risks, pollution of all kinds... So much news that undermines
PlusClimate change, junk food, marketing by tobacco and alcohol companies, ... Children's health is under "immediate threat" everywhere and no country in the world is adequately protecting their future, warns the United Nations (UN). Progress has been made over the past 20 years to protect children's health.
PlusL’épidémie de coronavirus Covid-19 en cours, qui a débuté à Wuhan à la fin de l’année dernière, illustre bien la menace que représentent les maladies infectieuses émergentes, non seulement pour la santé humaine et animale, mais aussi pour la stabilité sociale, le commerce et l’économie mondiale. Ces perturbations se produisent dans
PlusThe images are impressive: ghost towns deserted by their millions of inhabitants, masked men, convoys of people taken to containment centres, closed borders. The Chinese coronavirus has triggered a fever of anxiety, if not panic. A fever fought with the most effective means
PlusDoctors, WHO scientists and all public health organizations kept telling us this. We are on the brink of a devastating global pandemic. The question that no one can answer is that of the source of this expected and almost certain disease.
PlusYoung people are faced with major health challenges: sexuality, addictions, education for tolerance, social relations and inclusion, ... They are looking for solutions for prevention and seek the help of public authorities such as schools, rather than professionals in the field of health care.
PlusEmmanuel Macron has just launched on Thursday 19 September the "Commission for the first 1,000 days", chaired by the neuropsychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik, whose mission is to answer the many questions parents of young children ask themselves: to guide them from the fourth month of pregnancy onwards.
PlusThis study published by Santé publique France sounded like a warning. French people in general and children in particular have their bodies impregnated with pollutants. Parabens, phthalates, bisphenols, perfluorinated compounds... not to mention all sorts of nanoparticles, have intruded into our daily lives and contaminate us dangerously. What
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