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17 December 2013 - On 15 and 16 December 2013, the National Health and Family Planning Commission, China notified WHO of two new laboratory-confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus.

The first patient is a 39-year-old man from Guangdong Province. He became ill on 6 December 2013 and was admitted to hospital on 11 December 2013. He is currently in critical...

17 December 2013 - WHO has been informed of an additional two laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Saudi Arabia.

The first case is a 51 year-old female from Saudi Arabia, living in Jawf province with onset of symptoms on 20 November 2013. She has underlying chronic disease and was transferred to Riyadh for treatment in an...

Controversy surrounding consumer genetic testing has come to the foreground recently with the FDA's order that 23andMe discontinue marketing its popular "personal genome service."

The genome testing service, which provided analysis of genetic markers for various conditions via a saliva-based test, has suspended sales during the regulatory review process.  Most observers see little chance...

ESO Paris s’investit depuis 2005 sur la qualité de vie au travail et plus particulièrement sur les Troubles Musculo Squelettiques (TMS), réel problème de santé publique. L’école a initié divers partenariats avec des entreprises de renoms telles que DHL, Le CSTB – Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment, ou encore la RTE – Réseau de transport d’électricité...

Geneva/ Washington DC – 11 December 2013 – Global efforts to control and eliminate malaria have saved an estimated 3.3 million lives since 2000, reducing malaria mortality rates by 45% globally and by 49% in Africa, according to the World malaria report 2013 published by the World Health Organization (WHO).

An expansion of prevention and control measures has been mirrored by a...

Aujourd’hui, le Tribunal correctionnel de Marseille a, dans le cadre du volet « tromperie / escroquerie » de l’affaire Poly Implant Prothèses (PIP), déclaré Monsieur Jean-Claude MAS, ainsi que quatre autres cadres dirigeants de cette société, coupables des faits d’escroquerie et de tromperie pour avoir mis sur le marché des implants mammaires pré-remplies d’une huile...

Lyon/Geneva, 12 December 2013 – The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization, today released the latest data on cancer incidence, mortality, and prevalence worldwide.[i] The new version of IARC’s online database, GLOBOCAN 2012, provides the most recent estimates for 28 types of cancer in 184 countries worldwide...

Au plan national et dans les régions, l'activité des associations SOS Médecins est restée stable par rapport aux semaines précédentes, tous âges confondus. Cette activité est comparable à celle de 2012 pour la même période.


L'indicateur de grippe est en augmentation (+10 %, 74 cas hebdomadaires). Cette augmentation concerne les enfants de moins de 5 ans (+81 %, +46 cas) et...

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