tests now available in city laboratories

Olivier Véran had announced it on Friday, medical biologists were only waiting for the publication of a decree. It has been done since Sunday: city laboratories can now carry out diagnostic tests for Sars-CoV-2 infection, until then reserved only for authorized hospital laboratories. Coronavirus: tests soon available in town, pharmacists authorized to produce their hydroalcoholic … Read more

reduced harmful substances, Pampers still in the viewfinder

Pesticides, endocrine disruptors, dioxins, PCBs, chlorinated furans, glyphosate, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) … The list is long, and it is not that of the composition of a household product, but that of baby diapers . A year ago, parents of the children’s health association (APS-enfants) took the state to court for marketing toxic diapers. Their … Read more

A spectacular new map of the world of high energies

The eRosita space telescope has just unveiled its first survey of X-ray sources from the whole sky. –The entire sky seen in X-rays. Crédit : Jeremy Sanders, Hermann Brunner and the eSASS team (MPE); Eugene Churazov, Marat Gilfanov (on behalf of IKI) Our eye perceives only a tiny part of the whole extent of the light … Read more

Didier Raoult is right to say that we could have done more tests?

THE CHEKING PROCESS – The director of the Marseille University Hospital Institute (IHU) said that France “didn’t tell the truth about the tests, ” which could have been “Generalized». –Didier Raoult. THOMAS COEX / AFP THE QUESTION. Professor Didier Raoult continues his escapades. Before the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the management of the Covid-19 … Read more

“The Lancet”, the queen of the peer-reviewed medical journal, challenged for its opacity

SURVEY – practices for The validation of articles to cultivate a taste for the secret. –Sign a article in the Lancet so is the evidence that we has produced a work of quality. However, the review did not raise many criticisms, starting with the opacity of its functioning. Sébastien Soriano / Le Figaro Like other … Read more

what the 150 French clusters of the epidemic reveal

DECRYPTION – Each week, the number of clusters detected increases, a sign that the virus continues to circulate on the territory. Is it worrying? –The Covid-19 clusters are listed in the weekly epidemiological point drawn up by Santé publique France. SEBASTIEN SORIANO / Le Figaro Since the end of containment, outbreaks have been subject to … Read more

Coronavirus: the hope of cross-immunity

DECRYPTION – Protection from other coronaviruses has yet to be demonstrated. –The scientists’ objective was to observe the reaction of certain cells infected with Sars-CoV-2 to certain viral proteins. DAMIEN MEYER / AFP These are still just laboratory studies, but they are still a source of hope. Several studies published ten days ago show, in … Read more

fire extinguished, safety instructions, pollution … Update on the situation

In the aftermath of the spectacular fire in a chemical factory classified as particularly dangerous in Rouen, in Seine-Maritime, which did not make any victims, concerns remain about the health and ecological consequences of this industrial accident and the safety of the site . Created in 1954 on the banks of the Seine, left bank, … Read more

Two studies launched on the persistence and resurgence of Covid-19 symptoms

Professor Dominique Salmon-Ceron, infectious disease specialist at the Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Paris, announced Friday, May 22, in Le Parisien, the launch of two studies designed to study the persistence and resurgence of symptoms in patients with Covid-19, in order to better understand these phenomena observed in recent weeks by several doctors and scientists. The first … Read more

increased hospital mortality from choloroquine and hydroxychloroquine

Analysis of nearly 15,000 Covid-19 patients treated with these drugs within 24 hours of diagnosis shows a significant increase in mortality. –The study was published on May 22 in the leading scientific journal The Lancet. JUSTIN SULLIVAN / AFP This is not yet the signal for the complete cessation of the use of chloroquine or … Read more