In a press release issued on February 5, the WHO (World Health Organization) warned: "Antimicrobial resistance is a serious problem around the world ... some of the most common, and potentially most dangerous, infections are proving to be resistant to drugs. Most worryingly, moreover, some of the most common and potentially dangerous
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To enable paraplegics to regain the use of their legs, this is the ambition of the Wandercraft project, which has created the first exoskeleton that reproduces the movements of walking identically: With it, paraplegics can regain the most advanced natural walking in the world; several million people
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Would blood become the implacable revealer not only of our state of health, but also of our future? Advances in blood screening are accelerating. After the announcement a few days ago of a test that can detect several types of cancer in a single drop of blood, it is now the turn of
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has released its new report on antibiotic resistance and it is worthy of attention. This rigorous study reminds us that this phenomenon of bacterial resistance causes approximately 480,000 cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis worldwide each year and already causes 700,000
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Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have developed gold nanoparticles that have the property of attracting viruses to them in order to destroy them. Like broad-spectrum antibiotics, this completely new approach could destroy several types of virus such as HIV, dengue fever, herpes or Ebola.
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The field of neuroscience has undergone a veritable revolution over the last thirty years thanks to the arrival of new imaging and investigation tools that have made it possible to explore brain structures in great detail and to reveal the electrical and biochemical functioning of the various brain cells.
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During the 28th edition of the Health Communication Festival, which will take place in Deauville on November 24th and 25th, Laboratoires Pierre Fabre and Microsoft are organizing the first French challenge on artificial intelligence in the field of health. It is aimed at all entrepreneurs in the
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Des chercheurs de l’université de Genève ont découvert que les cellules musculaires abritent une horloge biologique. Elle pourrait jouer un rôle important dans la régulation de notre métabolisme et le développement du diabète. Les horloges biologiques déroulent leur tic-tac un peu partout dans le corps. Elles libèrent l’hormone de
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A documentary on Arte about the suffering of caregivers last week, another Thursday on Levothyrox, all the health news of the last month can be summed up in these words, confidence and mistrust. I add participation to bring the first one back to life and silence the second one.
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Des chercheurs de l’Institut Pasteur, de l’Inserm et du CNRS (1) viennent de restaurer, pour la première fois, l’audition et l’équilibre du syndrome de Usher (2) de type 1G (USH1G), cause la plus fréquente de surdité-cécité héréditaire, grâce à des tests sur la souris (modèle murin). Grâce à l’injection locale
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Michel Aubier, a renowned lung specialist and former head of department at the Bichat hospital in Paris, appeared on Wednesday for "false testimony". The specialist, who had been heard by a senate committee interested in the cost of air pollution, had forgotten to mention in the Senate his close relationship with the oil company Total.
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D’après un sondage d’Harris Interactive de février 2017, deux Français sur trois n’ont plus confiance en l’avenir du système de santé français. La nomination de Madame Agnès Buzyn au Ministère de la santé va-t-elle augurer une nouvelle ère de solutions concrètes pour améliorer la prise en charge du patient, désengorger
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This is good news for biodiversity. More than 28,000 plant species are currently listed as having medicinal uses, reveals a report published on Thursday 18 May by the Botanic Research Centre at Kew Gardens in London. In total, the report, which aims to
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For a very long time, sport and physical activity, although recognised as beneficial for fitness and health, were considered subsidiary and seen essentially as adjustment variables that complemented allopathic medicine, whose therapeutic effectiveness was constantly increasing. However, during these
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Do the general statements made in the health programmes of the two candidates running for President 2017 reflect a lack of knowledge of the real situation? A few measures will not be enough to repair our system. Its survival depends on its reorganization. And for that, two conditions: to draw up the
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Comme chaque année, le Massassuchet Institute of Technology livre dans sa publication, MIT Technology Review, les dix innovations disruptives de l’année. Cette sélection est à regarder avec attention car, en général, le MIT a le nez fin. L’année dernière il avait cité CRISPR, la fusée réutilisable ou la voiture autonome
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Nommé à la tête du Comité consultatif national d’éthique pour les sciences de la vie et de la santé (CCNE) en décembre dernier, le Pr Jean-François Delfraissy veut donner une plus grande ouverture à l’institution vieille de 34 ans. Pragmatique, cet immunologiste a appris dans sa longue expérience auprès des
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L’université Case Western dans l’Etat de l’Ohio aux USA envisage d’utiliser le casque Microsoft Hololens pour apprendre l’anatomie à ses étudiants en médecine. Grâce à la réalité augmentée, les futurs médecins n’auront plus besoin de disséquer des corps humains. La dissection d’un corps humain est un rite de passage
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The emergence of new technologies and the progress made in many fields (digital, robotics, medicine...) have revolutionized our daily life and the way we look at the evolution of humanity in just a few years. What will we look like in the future? What are the limits? Answers at the France Culture conference
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How can complex diseases such as cancer be better treated today? By managing to understand the human body at all scales, from the molecule (about 1 nanometre), the cell (about 10 micrometres), to the whole organism. This therapeutic goal involves making connections from the sub-nanoscale to the whole organism.
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