Écrit par WHO | 08 Janvier 2014

On 31 December 2013 Taipei Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported a laboratory-confirmed case of human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9).

The patient is an 86 year-old man from Jiangsu, China who travelled to Taiwan, Province of China, with a tourist group from 17-24 December. He felt uncomfortable on 19 December, and was admitted to a hospital on 24 December after being...

Écrit par WHO | 08 Janvier 2014

DAMASCUS, Syria ¦ 7 January 2014 – Over the past two weeks the World Health Organization (WHO) delivered two shipments with more than 125 tons of medical equipment and medicines to health providers in Aleppo, Syria -- in both government-controlled and in opposition-controlled areas. All shipments contained surgical materials, medicines to treat chronic and infectious diseases, infant...

Écrit par Ministère de la santé | 08 Janvier 2014

Marisol Touraine, ministre des affaires sociales et de la santé a annoncé lors d’un point presse ce jour au Ministère la suspension de la production du laboratoire Marette de Courseulles-sur-mer. Il a en outre été demandé au laboratoire de mettre dès à présent en quarantaine les poches stockées dans ses locaux. La mise en quarantaine de tous les produits du laboratoire encore...

Écrit par EMBO | 08 Janvier 2014

HEIDELBERG, 8 January 2014 – Researchers in the United States have suggested an alternative way to allocate science funding. The method, which is described in EMBO reports, depends on a collective distribution of funding by the scientific community, requires only a fraction of the costs associated with the traditional peer review of grant proposals and, according to the authors...