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WHO - 06/11/2016 - WHO condemns reported attacks using ambulances to target civilians in Tikrit and Samarra. WHO received reports of suicide bombers driving ambulances, killing more than 20 people and injuring dozens more at a checkpoint in Tikrit and a car park in Samarra. The reported use of medical vehicles as weapons threatens the ability to deliver health care and urgent medical...

Geneva, 4 November 2016 - The $5 billion East African pharmaceutical market is expected to grow by more than 12% per year for the next five years, as lifestyle changes in the region lead to higher rates of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes.

Such high growth offers significant opportunity, but so far the region's 65 manufacturers have only been able to satisfy about 30% of...

Copenhagen, 4 November 2016 - For the first time, researchers and health experts have undertaken a comprehensive analysis of the concerning situation in the WHO European Region of digital marketing to children of foods high in fats, salt and sugars. The findings are published in a new report from the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Tackling food marketing to children in a digital world...

The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal – It is natural for adults to focus their attention on a child who has a chronic disease or disability, but what happens to the siblings of that child? Research on chronic disease and disability has shown that unaffected children often have poorer psychological functioning as a result of their affected sibling’s condition. Children born with a...

Synthèse

L'activité globale des associations SOS Médecins est en légère hausse chez les enfants de moins de 2 ans et en baisse de 19 % chez les 2-14 ans, stable chez les adultes de 15-74 ans et est en hausse de 12,8 % chez les adultes de plus de 75 ans.

Les recours pour gastro-entérite et vomissements sont en baisse chez les enfants et adultes de 15-74 ans, mais sont en nette...

Profil des infirmiers en formation en 2014Bénédicte Casteran-Sacreste (DREES)
Les étudiants en soins infirmiers sont de plus en plus nombreux : 31 300 sont inscrits en première année en 2014, dans l’un des 328 instituts de formation préparant ce diplôme. Ils étaient 28 500 en 2004. Ce sont des femmes pour l’essentiel, même si la part des hommes...

3 November 2016 (Geneva) – People preparing for surgery should always have a bath or shower but not be shaved, and antibiotics should only be used to prevent infections before and during surgery, not afterwards, according to new guidelines from the World Health Organization (WHO) that aim to save lives, cut costs and arrest the spread of superbugs.

The Global Guidelines for the...

altLes points clés

En métropole, pas d'augmentation de l'activité grippale. Quelques cas sporadiques.
En Guyane et La Réunion pas d'éléments de gravité des épidémies de grippe en cours.

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