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Métropole : faible activité grippale.
Antilles-Guyane : poursuite de l'épidémie grippale en Guadeloupe et Guyane.
A la Réunion : fin de l'épidémie grippale.

November 2016 - The World Health Organization (WHO) delivered lifesaving supplies to assist thousands of women and children in Yei River State, one of South Sudan’s states most affected by conflict.The lifesaving health supplies will benefit more than 30 000 people living in areas affected by conflict in parts of Logo and Kirkwa in Yei River State for the next three months. The supplies...

According to new research published in the Lancet, the number of people in the world with high blood pressure reached 1.13 billion, nearly doubling since 1975.

The largest ever study of its kind, the research involved the World Health Organization and hundreds of scientists throughout the world, and incorporated blood pressure measurements from nearly 20 million people.

High blood...

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology – Identifying potential risk factors that may harm placental development is a primary objective of pregnancy screenings. To help ensure healthy pregnancies and, in turn, healthy newborns, researchers and clinicians continue to develop new and innovative testing methods to monitor fetal development. Successfully identifying syncytial knots (SK) in...

15 November 2016 ¦ Geneva ¦ Marrakech – Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) acknowledged the elimination of trachoma as a public health problem1 in Morocco.

Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. Transmitted through contact with eye and nose discharge of infected people, particularly young children, it affects populations in 42 countries, and is...

13 November 2016 -- As more areas in and around Mosul become accessible, WHO mobile medical clinics provide vulnerable communities with urgently needed health care. In some cases, these mobile clinics are the first health responders to arrive on the scene.

5 days after Tlol Nasir village, located south of Mosul village was liberated, a WHO mobile medical clinic was the first health...

L’Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (ANSM) a été destinataire de plusieurs signalements d’erreurs médicamenteuses liées à des prises quotidiennes chez des patients ayant une prescription hebdomadaire de méthotrexate par voie orale. Ces erreurs ont pu avoir des conséquences graves, voire fatales, pour le patient.Pour éviter tout risque, il...

Utrecht, November 14, 2016 - In the UMC Utrecht a brain implant has been placed in a patient enabling her to operate a speech computer with her mind. The researchers and the patient worked intensively to get the settings right. She can now communicate at home with her family and caregivers via the implant. That a patient can use this technique at home is unique in the world. This research...

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