As the rumor swells, so do concerns: if, as the experts encourage, wearing a mask becomes mandatory in France to protect against Covid-19, where will we find them, these masks? Have we not been talking for months about an inextinguishable shortage? → LIVE. Coronavirus: the latest news in France and around the world on April … Read more
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With an extreme shortage of ICU beds should be well aged, and other non-medical reasons as a factor in the question of who is entitled to a place in the intensive care unit. It could be that people who are engaged in care take precedence over all others. There is a new protocol in place, … Read more
During the first fifteen days of confinement, the doctors at GHU Paris psychiatry & neurosciences imagined the worst for their patients. Their psychiatric complications risked making them terribly vulnerable; they would be unable to maintain barrier gestures and any form of social distancing. Worse: they were going to disappear from the radars. During these two … Read more
The medico-political-media soap opera of hydroxychloroquine, an abundance of criticized scientific studies, intimate convictions and even irrationality between “pro” or “anti”, begins a new sequence of his crazy story. Title of this episode: the halt. The story started on Friday. In a resoundingly echoing study published that day in the prestigious and very serious medical … Read more
Question asked by Tsarorius on 05/04/2020 Hello, You are asking us about a controversy that arose in April from the presentation of work by researchers at the IHU Méditerranée infection on the effects of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and azithromycin in people with Covid-19. With this question: did the study follow the procedures relating to patient protection? … Read more
A big slap. This is what has just received the researchers from the AP-HP in charge of conducting a clinical trial on Tocilizumab, a monoclonal antibody commonly used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. On April 27, in a press release, the AP-HP welcomed the fact that in view of the first conclusions of the … Read more
Muriel Fartoukh is head of the resuscitation service at Tenon hospital in the XXe district of Paris. Today, his team is enjoying some respite, with 17 beds occupied by Covid-19 patients compared to 42 at the height of the crisis. A breath of fresh air that does not prevent him from remaining extremely vigilant. “Things … Read more
First glimmer of hope on the Cov2 treatment front. While 2,000 patients infected with Cov2 are in France engaged in clinical trials to test the possible benefit of existing drugs or molecules, the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) has just made public, for “ethical reasons “, the preliminary but promising results of a study on … Read more
Confined, he says he felt “Psychically projected into permanent communication and communion” with the world to which he remains virtually connected. He who has always lived fully, whose century of existence is made up of perpetual displacement and political and intellectual commitments. Born in 1921, Edgar Morin, sociologist, philosopher, “Humanologist”, he says, world famous writer, … Read more