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2 March 2016 –Today, the World Health Organization delivered urgently needed medicines to the besieged city of Mouadamieh, 10 km south of Damascus.

“Today we were able to bring in antibiotics and painkillers, exactly what local health workers told me they needed a few days ago,” says Azret Kalmykov,  health cluster coordinator in Syria, after completing the delivery inside the...

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Human-to-humantransmission directly linked to the 2014 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak inWest Africa was declared to have ended in Sierra Leone on 7 November 2015. Thecountry then entered a 90-day period of enhanced surveillance to ensure therapid detection of any further cases that might arise as a result of a missedtransmission chain, reintroduction from an animal reservoir, or...

Synthèse

L’activité globale des associations SOS Médecins est en baisse chez les enfants et stable chez les adultes.

Les visites pour grippe/syndrome grippal sont en hausse chez les enfants de moins de 2 ans et les adultes de plus de 75 ans, mais sont stables dans les autres classes d’âges.

Les visites pour pneumopathie sont en baisse dans toutes les classes d’âge sauf chez...

altLes points clés

Epidémie grippale proche de son pic en métropole
Majoritairement liée aux virus de type B
Pas de signes particuliers de gravité à ce stade de l'épidémie

Le cancer du côlon est le troisième cancer le plus fréquent et le second le plus mortel avec environ 17500 décès par an en France. Le  «Â Colon Day » est une journée de mobilisation des Gastroentérologues Français pour sensibiliser la population à l’importance du dépistage. C’est par une convention renouvelée avec l’Agence Régionale de la Santé (ARS), que le...

The Cleft Palate–Craniofacial Journal – Craniosynostosis, a congenital defect that occurs in infants, has become increasingly prevalent over the past two decades. This condition, which involves premature fusion of the cranial suture, may be associated with elevation in intracranial pressure. Craniosynostosis occurs in 3 to 13 out of every 10,000 live births and treatment within the...

Professor Lisbeth Olsson, from the department of Biology and Biological Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has been confirmed as the latest keynote speaker for the European Symposium of Biochemical Engineering Sciences (ESBES).

ESSBES 2016 opens in Dublin, Ireland on 11 September 2016. The conference brings together leading industrialists and academics in...

1 March 2016--GENEVA - Nearly 32 million children across the world live with disabling hearing loss. A new World Health Organization (WHO) report, Childhood hearing loss: act now, here’s how, suggests that 60% of this can be prevented. It also highlights that if hearing loss is detected early enough, and if children receive the care they need, they can reach their full potential....

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