Écrit par Ministre des Affaires sociales, de la Santé et des Droits des femmes | 04 Février 2015

À la veille de la journée mondiale contre le cancer, Marisol TOURAINE, ministre des Affaires sociales, de la Santé et des Droits des femmes a rappelé, au cours d’une visite au Centre de lutte contre le cancer Bergonié à Bordeaux (Gironde), l’importance de la mobilisation de tous contre le cancer, première cause de mortalité en France avec 150 000 décès chaque année.

Marisol...

Écrit par Center for Genetics and Society | 04 Février 2015

The UK House of Commons voted today to clear the way for fertility clinics to use controversial germline engineering techniques to create embryos with DNA from three people. If also approved by the House of Lords, the bill would enact an exception to the UK’s law against inheritable genetic modification, which is also prohibited by more than 40 other countries and several international...

Écrit par Didier Poli | 04 Février 2015

LONDON, UK (GlobalData), 3 February 2015 - The French pharmaceutical market is forecast to grow at a tepid Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 0.7% from $46.2 billion in 2014 to $48.2 billion by 2020, restricted by an increasing focus on generic drugs, according to research and consulting firm GlobalData.

The company’s latest report* states that France was a relatively late entrant to...

Écrit par WHO | 04 Février 2015

Disease outbreak news - 1 February 2015 - On 27 January 2015, the IHR National Focal Point of Canada notified WHO of 1 laboratory-confirmed case of human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus. On January 30, 2015 a second individual, travelling to China with the index case, was laboratory confirmed to also have influenza A(H7N9) infection.

The two individuals flew from Hong Kong...