Écrit par WHO | 21 Mai 2013

GENEVA ¦ 20 May 2013 -- The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Health Assembly, the world's largest health policy-making body, opened its 66th Session today in Geneva
with around 3000 participants from around the world.  Major health issues to be discussed include:•        preventing and controlling noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, cancers and chronic lung...

Écrit par WHO | 21 Mai 2013

Mister President, Excellencies, honourable ministers, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen,
 
Ten years ago, the World Health Assembly met under a cloud of anxiety. SARS, the first severe new disease of the 21st century, was spreading explosively along the routes of international air travel, placing any city with an international airport at risk of imported cases.
 
By early July of...

Écrit par THERAVECTYS | 21 Mai 2013

30 years of HIV Science: imagine the future Symposium [1]

La communication de THERAVECTYS s'intitule « Mise au point et évaluation clinique d'un nouveau vaccin thérapeutique anti-VIH basé sur des vecteurs lentiviraux»




Paris, le 20 mai 2013 - THERAVECTYS, société française de biotechnologie qui développe une nouvelle génération de vaccins, annonce avoir été sélectionnée par...

Écrit par WHO | 21 Mai 2013

The Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia has informed WHO of an additional laboratory-confirmed case of infection with the novel coronavirus (nCoV). 

The patient is an 81-year-old woman with multiple coexisting medical conditions. She became ill on 28 April 2013 and is currently in critical but stable condition. 

The patient was identified as part of the ongoing investigation into an...