The names of these promising drugs to treat COVID-19 patients are beginning to become known to the public: Remdesivir, Ritonavir, Lopinavir and of course the most talked about, Chloroquine. These four promising treatments will be the subject of a major global study by the World Health Organization.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing our society to make choices of a magnitude and intensity whose consequences cannot yet be measured. While it is certainly justified to base decisions on the expertise of scientists, the crucial trade-offs are a political responsibility. In the area of public health, they constitute a
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The Assembly votes on the article on the state of health emergency. Adopted by a show of hands after several hours of discussion, the article provides that a state of public health emergency, which makes it possible to restrict public freedoms (confinement, requisitioning, etc.), must be introduced as soon as the law comes into force, and for two months. This article provides, in particular, for
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Confinement means giving up our freedom to move, to meet and to trade. It means preserving ourselves, a necessary measure to slow the exponential progression of coronavirus contamination. With his epidemiological crisis leaflet, Bernard Umbrecht offers us a moment of joyful curiosity about the definition of the word "coronavirus".
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How many deaths will the coronavirus cause? No one is yet able to answer this question, but in the worst-case scenario, it could number in the millions around the world, warn experts, who therefore stress the importance of measures such as containment. Time is running out in the face of a
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In these times of containment, with the spread of the coronavirus and the suspension of classes in schools, teleworking is encouraged in most companies. The result? Parents have to juggle their roles as parents and workers simultaneously. How can parental burnout be avoided? Two researchers
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Ce que les peuples racines ont à nous dire - De la santé des hommes et de la santé du monde, by Frederika Van Ingen - Editions Les liens qui libèrent (LLL), January 2020 - 368 Pages How can the knowledge of the root peoples inspire us in our approach to
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Until now, official figures seemed to indicate that sub-Saharan Africa, with a population of more than 1 billion, had been lucky. The interactive map of reported cases of COVID-19, managed by Johns Hopkins University, shows large red spots almost everywhere - except in sub-Saharan Africa. But today, the first
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The pandemic is hitting the world. Everybody. Like a scourge of fate. In reality, this crisis is a product of our way of living the world. By extending the limits of our human habitats into the wilderness, we have not only destroyed biodiversity, but have also entered into a new era.
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Across 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
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France is not China. Not so much because of its geographical size or economic power, but because of its culture and the way of life and behaviour of the French. The coronavirus is reshuffling the maps of the hierarchy of needs, without revolutionizing everyday habits. It is
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In the unstable context of the beginning of the year 2020, Covid-19 appears as a remarkable inflection point which reshuffles the maps of the hierarchy of needs. Remarkable because it concerns the entire world population, without distinction of social level, consumption tastes, age or gender.
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::: 11/03 - The Society for the Encouragement of National Industry is organising a round table on the theme "Do we still have a choice in our medical practice? "on Wednesday, March 11, at 2pm, in partnership with Alternative Santé, on the occasion of the 4th week of the Mutualité. With more than
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::: 03/03 - Les Annales des Mines is organizing a round table on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm, on the theme of air pollution Air pollution is one of the central concerns of the French, it is also an important health issue. The effects of
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The 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
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Climate 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.
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The question of the effectiveness and limitations of a diagnostic AI arises, from a technical, but also ethical and legal point of view. On February 27, the Aristotle Association is organizing a seminar on the relationship between AI and health. In what way is this sector deeply shaken by the arrival of these new technologies?
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TrauMatrix, the new scientific and medical research partnership of the Ecole Polytechnique is launched. Objective: to develop the first decision support tools for the management of patients suffering from severe trauma. The Ecole polytechnique announced the launch of a three-year scientific and medical research partnership with the
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Young 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.
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Emmanuel 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.
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