British Man’s Decades-Long Smoking Habit Causes Lung Failure, Receives Life-Saving Transplant

British Man’s Decades-Long Smoking Habit Causes Lung Failure, Receives Life-Saving Transplant

Daniel, a 38-year-old from the UK, started smoking at the age of 9, which led to lung failure and required a transplant to save his life. (Image/Pixabay) A British man started smoking at the age of 9 and smoked 20 cigarettes a day. He is now 38 years old and the father of five children. … Read more

“In New York, hospitals are permanently close to saturation”

New York City became the main focus of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States last week, with nearly 40,000 people tested positive and nearly 1,000 dead. Many hospitals in the first American city are already overheating, and must manage the influx of patients, with very uneven resources from one hospital to another, as these … Read more

No, a decree does not facilitate euthanasia in nursing homes or at home

Question asked by Fred on 04/03/2020 Hello, Several of you asked us about the publication, on March 29, of a decree allowing city doctors to prescribe, without a marketing authorization (MA) and as part of the Covid-19 epidemic, a drug called Rivotril. This exemption is in effect until April 15. Since the weekend, the government … Read more

Covid-19: a promising treatment for serious patients

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

Diary of a doctor in Ehpad: “In the night, unexpected death is hard”

On the front line with the elderly, Jean-Paul Duplan, 69, is the coordinating doctor of two accommodation establishments for dependent elderly people (Ehpad) in the department of Essonne. For request of Release, he keeps a logbook of his daily work in the face of the coronavirus. The fight is tough. This article is the updated … Read more

Shortages extend to drugs

Faced with the unprecedented scale of the crisis and the influx of patients, stocks are running out. First those of protective masks. Then the reagents used in the Covid-19 diagnostic tests. And respirators, whose production is struggling to keep up with demand. Little by little, everything necessary for hospitalization and treatment of patients is running … Read more

people with COPD are at the highest risk

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affects four million French people. Patients with this little-known and highly debilitating respiratory disease are among those at greatest risk in this covid-19 epidemic. France BPCO alerted the Minister of Health to raise awareness of health services in the case of patients with COPD. – Video: 9 questions about the … Read more

COPD is at highest risk

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affects 4 million French people. Patients with this little-known and highly debilitating respiratory disease are among those at greatest risk in this covid-19 epidemic. France BPCO alerted the Minister of Health to raise awareness of health services in the case of patients with COPD. – ” In all epidemic being … Read more

“It can take two years to get a medicine”

Research teams around the world are working to better understand the coronavirus (2019-nCoV), identify an effective treatment and develop a vaccine. Professor Arnaud Fontanet, who heads the research and expertise unit in epidemiology of emerging diseases at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, analyzes the characteristics of the virus and reviews the evolution of knowledge of … Read more