We have “A very large arsenal in France for serological tests”, indicated the Pr Dominique Le Guludec, President of the French National Authority for Health (HAS), delivering his opinion on rapid tests on May 18. These allow you to know, from a drop of blood taken at your fingertip, whether a person has encountered the … Read more
The results – eagerly awaited – of the first analyzes of deposits and concentrations of toxins in the air following the fire at the Lubrizol factory on September 26 in Rouen were made public on Saturday afternoon by the prefect of the department during a press conference. These analyzes, which are available on the prefecture’s … Read more
A 14-year-old adolescent with no underlying pathology died in the United Kingdom from an inflammatory disease with symptoms close to Kawasaki disease, probably linked to the new coronavirus, according to his medical team, cited in particular by the journal The Lancet. The teenager was part of a group of eight children with this rare disease, … Read more
DECRYPTION – The presumed protective effect of the anti-malarial does not seem strong enough to prevent the onset of the disease in populations suffering from autoimmune diseases who take it every day. –Hydroxychloroquine pills. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP The promises of hydroxychloroquine, whose antiviral effect in vitro against Sars-CoV-2 had raised many hopes, are far … Read more
Some 15 children have been hospitalized in recent days in New York because they suffered from an inflammatory disease that could be linked to the coronavirus and of which dozens of cases have already been reported elsewhere. The patients, who were hospitalized between April 17 and May 1, aged 2 to 15, all had fever, … Read more
Will France be able to carry out each week, as is the aim, the 700,000 PCR tests considered essential to test all patients and their contacts at the end of confinement? Nothing is less sure. Thursday evening on LCI, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, said that France was doing a lot more tests than … Read more
The first elements of the military convoy transporting the field hospital which must help to unclog the Mulhouse hospital, whose resuscitation service is saturated by coronavirus patients, arrived on Saturday morning March 21 at their destination. See also – Coronavirus: a field hospital is being organized in Mulhouse Of the 16 army logistics command trucks … Read more
The performance of future commercial serological tests has been compared to that of the best laboratory tests designed by the Institut Pasteur. –More than 100 serological tests are listed worldwide, estimates a specialist in diagnostics, of which around fifty have received a “CE marking”. 211045328 / angellodeco – stock.adobe.com During the weekend, the list of … Read more
WIDE ANGLE – The stages of replication of Sars-CoV-2 are all potential pharmacological targets. It remains to take a giant step: go from the test tube to the man … –Let’s follow step by step the path of our intruder, aka Sars-CoV-2, to better understand how pharmacology can hinder him. MAXIM SHEMETOV / REUTERS Like … Read more
DECRYPTION – The role of children in the spread of the epidemic was raised very early, by analogy with what happens every winter in other epidemics such as the flu. –“We no longer have the impression that children are dead ends.”r Arnaud Fontanet, director of the global health department at the Institut Pasteur Family Veldman … Read more