SAccording to a Chinese study published on February 19, a clinical trial conducted in ten Chinese hospitals to measure “the effectiveness of chloroquine on the treatment of pneumonia associated with Covid-19″ has given encouraging results with trials on ” more than 100 patients ”. Chloroquine is an inexpensive antimalarial used for several decades and marketed … Read more
The Intermountain Healthcare Medical Center announced Friday night that Mark Jorgensen tested positive for the coronavirus and has been admitted to “a special unit, separate from the hospital and designed for high-level isolation” that is only available in certain hospitals in the country. Representatives of the medical center assure that it is a unit with … Read more
The measurements of quarantine taken in various parts of China for him Wuhan coronavirus, attached to the congestion of many hospitals to treat patients with Covid-19, hinder the access of HIV positive Chinese to antiretrovirals and others treatments, warns UNAIDS. A sounding to members of this collective made by this organization of the United Nations … Read more
Álex Hernández, Cristal Flores, and Emmanuel Fernández, three children suffering from cancer, lacked vincristine, metrotexate, cyclophosphamide and purinethol in the last year. All are essential medicines for your chemotherapy treatments. In full review of the public health system by the Government, parents of children with cancer in Mexico have had to face repeated episodes of … Read more
The flu epidemic continues to grow in mainland France and the West Indies. Children are particularly affected this year. More discreet than the current Covid-19 epidemic in China, the seasonal flu epidemic continues to spread across mainland France and the West Indies. The public health agency France public health, in its inventory published Wednesday January … Read more
TESTIMONIAL – Justine, 24, has suffered from epilepsy since the age of 17. On International Epilepsy Day, she agreed to testify. Justine, 24, dreamed of working with disabled children Justine – LE FIGARO. – How did your illness start? Justine. – It was the morning of December 24, 2012. When I had just gotten up, … Read more
Some people aged 60 still have a healthy heart, but suffer from kidney disease. Some even 30 years old, despite healthy kidneys, often suffer from infectious diseases. Why is the aging process so different for different people? A recent study showed that there are four different “types of aging” of the human body: immune, renal, … Read more
Thanks to this interactive map, everyone can follow the spread of the coronavirus from home, almost in real time. How many people are currently affected by 2019-nCoV, the new coronavirus that has caused an epidemic since mid-December 2019? Where are they located? How many recovered and how many died? This is the disastrous but necessary … Read more
Mortality, contagiousness …Le Figaro takes stock of the new “Chinese” virus. As the toll of the current epidemic in China grows daily, the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) would almost make you forget the other viruses, usually in the spotlight. That of seasonal influenza, which has already killed 22 people in France this year, or that of … Read more
While a 17-year-old girl died in early January from this widespread infection, health officials are asking manufacturers to better educate them about the risk of toxic shock. Tampons or menstrual cups: all internal intimate protection presents a rare but serious risk of toxic shock (a generalized bacterial infection), stresses ANSES in a report published Monday, … Read more