Health

THE ESSENTIAL The bile ducts are the channels that carry bile from the liver – where the digestive juices that aid digestion are produced – to the gallbladder, where it is stored between meals. Every year, 2,000 people in France are affected by cancer of the biliary tract, according to the French National Society of … Read more

After receiving a personal clinical trial, Robert Glynn, suffering from bile duct cancer, is now completely cured, given only 12 months to live. While his doctors gave him just 12 months to live, Robert Glynn, a 51-year-old English welder, is now completely cured of the bile duct cancer that was eating away at him, reports … Read more

At Strasbourg University Hospital, the triple epidemic of influenza, Covid-19 and bronchiolitis saturated the entire emergency care chain on 29 December 2022. SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP While the coronavirus circulates less and the bronchiolitis epidemic is decreasing and remains at a high level, the spread of influenza is accelerating throughout France at the end of … Read more

A man who had less than a year to live has now been cured of cancer thanks to a UK trial of a new drug treatment. It is a miracle. A man who had less than a year to live has now been cured of cancer thanks to a UK trial of a new drug … Read more

This technique would simplify the detection of this neurodegenerative disease at an early stage, because a cerebral scintigraphy remains cumbersome and expensive. Research into better detection of Alzheimer’s disease is progressing. Following the detection of a specific biomarker in urine, an international team has developed a new test to detect signs of the most frequent … Read more

Reading time: 2 min — Spot on New York Post If you tend to stuff yourself with chips and can’t stop, it’s not just because of their taste. As the New York Post explains, high-calorie foods regularly lead to overeating, which leads to obesity as well as major health problems. It turns out that overeating … Read more

American researchers have developed a blood test to detect Alzheimer’s disease. If it is validated, it could replace an expensive MRI or a painful and invasive lumbar puncture, the only techniques that currently make it possible to reveal the existence of the disease. That Alzheimer’s disease could it soon be diagnosed by a simple blood … Read more

On December 7, 2022, Kris Thompson (32) and Iboyla Adam (35), two Britons living in Wigan, take their 22-month-old daughter to the GP, reports. Mirror. Their little Hailey has a runny nose and cough. She is then prescribed antibiotics, which her parents stop giving her when they see she is having an allergic reaction to … Read more

The number of emergency visits increased by 52% in the week from 19 to 25 December. The peak of pollution has not yet been reached. On a trip to Annecy (Haute-Savoie) this Wednesday, Health Minister François Braun did not hide his concern. The influenza epidemic in France is currently characterized by “an explosion of cases, … Read more