Faced with heat waves, the world is suffocating. The year 2023 was the hottest ever recorded in the world and 2024 could break a new record, with significant consequences for the health of the most vulnerable organisms, especially those of the smallest. “This heat is dangerous for anyone, but especially for young children,” Lily Caprani, … Read more
In Parliament, the Minister of Economy and Finance, Nadia Fettah Alaoui, returned to the delays in the reimbursement of health and medicine costs. Quoted by the magazine Challengeshe explained that 76% of refund requests are currently processed within 60 days. And for the remaining 24%, the minister “stressed that the process of digitalization of administrations, … Read more
The American pharmaceutical company has revised its forecasts above and now expects annual sales between $45.4 and $46.6 billion, or $3 billion more than previously expected. This is the second time this year that the group has reviewed its forecasts. As the stock market opened, shares rose 14% before slowing to 7.5% during the day. … Read more
Monkeypox, also known as Mpox, is an infectious disease caused by the virus of the same name. Endemic in the northern and central regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the number of cases has however exploded in 2023 and affected 85% of the regions of the DRC. Some 12,700 people, of whom 581 have … Read more
A small company in the medical devices sector controlled by giants, Terpan Prévention, based in Gallardon, has just received permission to distribute condoms for free in pharmacies to people under the age of 26. The State wants to fight the – against the return of sexually transmitted diseases in France. In a world still affected … Read more
The offer of Takaful insurance products remains limited to the guarantees and risks of participatory banking activity, which restricts the size of funds, indicates BMCE Capital Global Research (BKGR) in a dedicated note and whose conclusions are relayed by the daily Le Matin du Sahara et du Maghreb. The banking sector has a pool of … Read more
“The water is at 2°C, I take an ice bath every morning, the skin is starting to burn, we must not stay too long”: since the start of winter – and for some for longer – Dozens of people on social networks have challenged themselves to take an ice bath (between 0°C and 10°C) every … Read more
January 2, 2024 Suffering from itching? Then you first think of scratching. We say: don’t do it! Once you start scratching, the itching only seems to get worse. This is what you can do to relieve the itching? Scratching feels good when you do itch you have, but there are studies that show that scratching … Read more
Settling of scores in front of the Quick located rue de Lyon in Marseille, December 29, 2023. GILLES BADER / PHOTOPQR/LA PROVENCE/MAXPPP A 22-year-old man, known to the police and the courts for drug trafficking, died after being hit by gunfire on Friday evening in Marseille, the Marseille prosecutor’s office told Agence France-Presse on Saturday, … Read more
The head of the Central Office for the Suppression of Illicit Drug Trafficking (OCRTIS), François Thierry, in Nanterre, March 18, 2011. PIERRE VERDY / AFP The Hambli affair, named after this major drug trafficker recruited as a source by the Central Office for the Fight against Illicit Drug Trafficking (OCRTIS), has just experienced one of … Read more