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I’olive oil occupies a place of choice in our cupboards. Its benefits have been the subject of many studies and it is the star of the mediterranean dietdesignated as best healthy diet by all the nutrition experts. Health benefits that mean that the French consume nearly 110,000 tonnes of it each year. Faced with this […] More

Vectors of many diseases (the malaria, dengue fever, zika, etc.), mosquitoes are attracted by the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by the mouth and nose when breathing, but also by the heat emitted by the body (they perceive infrared) and by certain molecules present on the skin – lactic acid and ammonia, for example. These are […] More

Since 1990, a national survey of the prevalence of nosocomial infections has been conducted in health establishments. Nosocomial infections are those infections that a patient contracts during his care in a health establishment, and which were neither present nor incubating at the start of this care. For the latest survey, conducted in 2022, 1,155 healthcare […] More

There sudden infant death syndrome, it is the number 1 anxiety of all young parents. Each year, in France, between 250 and 350 children (aged less than 6 months in the majority of cases) die unexpectedly during their sleep, when they were in perfect health. The causes of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (which doctors rather […] More

Do you know what an “energy vampire” is? The “energy vampire” (in French version) is the latest topic of discussion on TikTok. In summary, it is a “friend“Emotionally draining… How to recognize an “energy vampire”? On social networks, influencers multiply the “warning signs” to identify. First, the “energy vampire” is negative : in his life, […] More

We all know the old adage that says “An apple a day keeps the doctor away forever”. It would seem that the ancients were not wrong since researchers at Harvard University (United States) have just demonstrated in a study that fruits rich in flavonoids (of which the apple is a part) made it possible to […] More

This Saturday, May 20, 2023, a decree was published in the Official Journal: shortly, the support by theHealth Insurance of the “non-emergency medical transport“will drop from 65% to around 50%. “The participation of the insured persons in the costs relating to medical transport“(which today is between 30% and 40%) will increase”shortly [jusqu’] at a rate […] More

The story begins in 2015. Amy Jardon, a 40-year-old American, is quietly installed on her sofa when she suddenly feels an itch between her toes. She takes off her sock and carefully examines her left foot: between her quartus and her quintus (that is to say: between her little toe and the one next to […] More

The use of blood as therapy is not new, as evidenced by the famous bloodletting already advocated by Hippocrates and Galen in the 12th century, and more recently, of course, blood transfusions. Less known, “PRP injection, an acronym for platelet-rich plasma (or concentrates of autologous platelets), is part of the same register, that of regenerative […] More

This Monday, May 22, 2023, a 38-year-old nurse and a 56-year-old medical secretary were stabbed at the Reims University Hospital: unfortunately, the first is now deceased. According to a report by the Doctors’ Safety Observatory (a body that depends on the National Council of the Order of Physicians) published on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, 1244 […] More

In France, more than 167,000 people suffer from Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative pathology characterized by the progressive destruction of certain neurons in the brain. The exact causes of Parkinson’s disease are not yet known: scientists hypothesize a genetic vulnerability coupled with environmental risk factors. Precisely: according toInsermexposure to certain pesticides is probably a factor increasing […] More

In 2022, the absenteeism rate will reach a record level, proof that the upward trend of recent years is well anchored, tells us the 4th Absenteeism Observatory piloted by Axa health. In 2019, the pre-Covid reference year, it was observed that just under a third of employees (30%) stopped at least once during the year. […] More