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 ANSM | 07 Janvier 2014

Information destinée aux hématologues, oncologues, hépatologues, pharmaciens hospitaliers, groupes coopérateurs en hématologie

La détermination du statut mutationnel RAS de type sauvage (exons 2, 3 et 4 du KRAS et du NRAS) est impérative avant l’instauration d’un traitement par Erbitux. Le statut mutationnel des gènes RAS (exons 2, 3 et 4 de KRAS et NRAS) doit être...

Écrit par WHO | 03 Janvier 2014

BANGUI, CAR I 2 January 2014 - Following the confirmation by the Bangui Pasteur Institute of cases of measles in two camps for displaced persons – near Bangui airport (3 cases) and at the Don Bosco Centre in Damala (5 cases) - WHO, UNICEF, MSF and other partners will support an emergency response immunization campaign to control this epidemic starting Friday, 3 January 2014.

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