Écrit par WHO | 28 Janvier 2015

27 January 2015 | GENEVA - The WHO Executive Board, currently holding its 136th session in Geneva, has appointed Ms Zsuzsanna Jakab, PhD as WHO Regional Director for Europe for a second term, following her nomination by the Regional Committee for Europe in September last year. The Regional Committee comprises health ministers from the European Region’s 53 Member States. Ms Jakab will...

Écrit par Dubai Healthcare City | 28 Janvier 2015

Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC), the world’s largest healthcare free zone, and Queen’s University Belfast, one of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities, today announced their partnership to develop the Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBR-UMHS) and its College of Medicine.

Queen’s will assist in the development of the MBR-UMHS and the...

Écrit par Société Française de Dermatologie | 28 Janvier 2015

A la fin du mois de janvier 2015, les conditions de prescription et délivrance (CPD) de l’isotrétinoïne vont être modifiées (http://ansm.sante.fr/). L'Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament et des produits de santé (ANSM) a décidé de restreindre la prescription initiale de l'isotrétinoïne par voie orale aux seuls dermatologues. En revanche, le renouvellement ne sera pas...

Écrit par Wiley | 27 Janvier 2015

Researchers report that low levels of sodium in the blood, known as hyponatremia, increase the risk of dying for patients on the liver transplant waiting list. The study published in Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, showed an increase in survival benefit for patients with...