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15 Juillet 2014
11 July 2014 | New York – UN Member States have reaffirmed their commitment to take bold measures to reduce the avoidable burden of noncommunicable diseases. These ailments, including heart disease and stroke, cancer, diabetes and lung disease kill 38 million people every year, many of them before they reach the age of 70. Most of these largely preventable deaths occur in developing...
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15 Juillet 2014
The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to monitor the evolution of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. In Guinea, the current epidemic trend shows low activity of community viral transmission, with only 1 confirmed EVD case reported in the last 7 days. This trend is being closely monitored, particularly in communities that had resistance to...
Écrit par The Cochrane Library
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15 Juillet 2014
Corticosteroid drugs that are given by inhalers to children with asthma may suppress their growth, evidence suggests. Two new systematic reviews published in The Cochrane Library focus on the effects of inhaled corticosteroid drugs (ICS) on growth rates. The authors found children’s growth slowed in the first year of treatment, although the effects were minimised by using lower...
Écrit par WHO
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15 Juillet 2014
10 July 2014, Jerusalem – The recent escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip raises concern about the ability of the Government and the Ministry of Health of the occupied Palestinian territory to cope with the increased burden of medical emergencies on the health system, given the high levels of shortages of medicines, medical disposables and hospital fuel supplies, and rising health...
Écrit par ANSM
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15 Juillet 2014
En 2013 en France, on estimait à 346 000 le nombre de femmes porteuses d’implants mammaires. On évalue à environ 30 000 celles qui ont porté une prothèse fabriquée par la société PIP (dont une partie a été retirée depuis). Au-delà du caractère défectueux de ces prothèses mammaires, seule une vaste étude épidémiologique permettrait de documenter leurs effets...
