Écrit par Didier Poli | 28 Mars 2018

World Health Day, 7 April, will focus on universal health coverage.

In this 70th anniversary year, the World Health Organization is calling on world leaders to live up to the pledges they made when they agreed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, and commit to concrete steps to advance universal health coverage (UHC). This means ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access...

Écrit par OMS | 27 Mars 2018

26 MARCH 2018 | ABUJA, NIGERIA – After nearly 400 confirmed infections and 100 deaths, the spread of Lassa fever in Nigeria is beginning to slow but the epidemic is far from contained, the World Health Organization and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) have warned.

NCDC’s latest data shows that the number of new confirmed and probable cases has been falling for five...

Écrit par GlobalData | 27 Mars 2018

The obesity market may not be the mega-blockbuster market some were predicting, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

The latest bankruptcy filing by Orexigen Therapeutics, whose Contrave proved a disappointment, shows how hard it is to enter this potentially lucrative market. Despite the obesity epidemic, Vivus’s Qsymia and Arena Pharmaceuticals’ Belviq, two...

Écrit par ASCOM | 26 Mars 2018

Aujourd'hui le Graal du monde hospitalier tient en quelques lettres : les données ! Mais le défi de sa collecte reste toujours aussi colossal, les obstacles étant aussi bien réglementaires que budgétaires. Pour les surmonter, l'IoT* et les solutions logicielles connectées se développent au sein des hôpitaux. Des solutions d'interopérabilité ayant pour objectif de rendre le...