The health authorities still follow the situation closely. At the end of January, a meningococcal meningitis cluster was detected in a family from Rennes, causing the death of an 18 -year -old young woman on February 3. Two other people around him were also hospitalized after being infected with this rare disease which can lead … Read more
“I have the impression of reliving my puberty,” confided Edouard Philippe in an interview with Parisian published Saturday. The former Prime Minister and candidate for the next presidential election spoke of his alopecia, an illness “neither serious”, “nor painful” which caused him to lose his eyebrows, his beard and his hair. “Last June, it started … Read more
It’s the third Monday in January and as a British advertising campaign for a travel agency in 2005 assured, we are about to experience the “most depressing day of the year”, also called “Blue Monday”. “. If this concept has no scientific basis, it is no coincidence that it falls on a Monday. According to … Read more
The flu continues to attack France with virulence. The winter epidemic of this disease intensified in the city and generated “very high hospital activity” and a “clear increase in deaths” in the second week of the year, Public Health France said on Wednesday. The week from January 6 to 12 was marked by a “marked … Read more
Every winter, the annual flu epidemic is an opportunity to observe a strange phenomenon. Men seem to resist it a lot, but much less well than women. Forgetting any notion of decency or self-esteem, the male with the flu never hesitates to appear on the verge of agony at the slightest cold, bundled up in … Read more
An end of the year marked by gratitude for the royal family. King Charles III paid tribute to the medical staff who brought “support” and “comfort” to his loved ones, during his Christmas speech on Wednesday, at the end of a year marked by the cancers of the monarch and his beautiful -daughter Kate. The … Read more
We thought he had disappeared. But in recent years, pediatricians have seen scurvy reappear among children in many French departments. To confirm their impression, doctors from the Robert-Debré hospitals in Paris and Cayenne in Guyana, accompanied by researchers from Inserm and Paris Cité University, carried out a study aimed at measuring the number of cases … Read more
In 2025, we will not change bad habits with an increase in the prices of complementary health insurance of 6% on average. This is the third year in a row that prices will increase. The French Mutuality justifies this by the “structural” increase in health spending in France, of + 5.2% in 2023. And the … Read more
We all have the same problems at this time of year: a nasal voice, due to the flu or a cold, which forces us to blow our noses all the time. And even without getting sick, our nose takes a toll with the low temperatures of winter, because the skin is “thinner and more sensitive”. … Read more
The trend increase in sick leave in the private sector and among civil service contract workers accelerated after 2019, “beyond the effects of the health crisis”, according to a study by Drees, the statistical services of social ministries , published this Friday. During the decade 2010-2019, the number of days compensated increased by 2.3% per … Read more