Etiket: patients
HIV-Positive Patients in Remission, ‘Living Proof’ of Possible Victory Against HIV
(Munich) Three people in remission from HIV explain how a risky transplant operation saved their lives, “living proof” that sometimes you can triumph in the fight against this virus. Published…
VIDEO. These psychiatric patients surf to overcome their anxieties
Published 07/23/2024 5:25 PM Update 07/23/2024 5:33 PM Video length: 9 min VIDEO. These psychiatric patients surf to overcome their anxieties “In the water you feel free, your anxieties disappear.”…
The Medicines Safety Agency is calling for vigilance for patients who have an Allurion gastric balloon
Thousands of French people have a gastric balloon from the American brand Allurion fitted each year. This device is not reimbursed by Social Security. Published 07/18/2024 06:00 Reading time: 1…
This association fulfills the last wishes of patients at the end of their lives
Founded three years ago, “Ambulance des rêves” helps people at the end of their lives to make their dreams come true. Marguerite, 83, was able to spend a few hours…
a pet dog to reassure patients at the dentist
Published on 06/26/2024 4:36 p.m. Video length: 2 min Brest: a companion dog to reassure patients at the dentist Brest: a companion dog to reassure patients at the dentist (France…
a single injection treatment offers hope of curing patients with sickle cell anemia
Published on 06/19/2024 07:19 Update on 06/19/2024 07:19 Reading time: 4 min Sickle cell disease affects 30,000 patients in France; (IMAGEBROKER/TIMON SCHNEIDER / IMAGEBROKER.COM) The French High Authority for Health…
in Quebec, doctors prescribe “literary remedies” to their patients
They have drawn up a list of around fifty books “to prescribe”, in particular to allow patients to access additional reliable information. Published on 06/16/2024 12:02 Reading time: 2 min…
in Quebec, doctors prescribe “literary remedies” to their patients
They have drawn up a list of around fifty books “to prescribe”, in particular to allow patients to access additional reliable information. Published on 06/16/2024 12:02 Reading time: 2 min…
Pharmaceutical | Innomar Strategies patients affected by cyberattack
Medical and personal patient data from Innomar Strategies – a major Canadian pharmaceutical company – was stolen following an intrusion into the parent company’s computer system. Potential victims interviewed The…
The law allowing the creation of a digital health record for patients will come into force on July 1
More than a year after its adoption, the law aimed at ensuring that health data is “linked to the patient” rather than to the place where the care was provided…
Ventolin shortages worry pharmacies and patients
Published on 06/07/2024 3:50 p.m. Video length: 2 min Health: Ventolin shortages worry pharmacies and patients Health: Ventolin shortages worry pharmacies and patients (France 2) Drug shortages in pharmacies are…
A healthier lifestyle helps slow the development of dementia, even for Alzheimer’s patients, according to an Inserm study
More than 5,000 sixty-year-olds were followed for 12 to 17 years. The result shows that, even if you have a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s disease, good lifestyle habits can reduce…
upcoming price increases worry patients
Published on 06/04/2024 3:45 p.m. Video length: 2 min Medical consultations: future price increases worry patients By the end of the year, the price of a consultation with a general…
Does assisted dying mainly concern “poor” patients abroad, as French MPs claim?
The argument according to which the poorest are over-represented among deaths by assisted suicide or euthanasia is swept aside by various international studies, which even tend to demonstrate the opposite.…
The Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, and family doctors must come to an agreement for the good of patients.
The Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, and general practitioners are dancing a last-chance tango to save the GAP (First Line Access Counter), one of the health system’s greatest recent successes,…
“It won’t happen again,” promises the Minister of Health regarding financial penalties for senior patients on the North Shore
Health Minister Christian Dubé on Thursday ordered the withdrawal of a directive imposing financial penalties on senior patients on the North Shore if they refuse to be transferred to CHSLDs.…
Family doctors will drop patients on June 1
Clinics are sending letters to their patients to inform them that they will be without a family doctor as of January 1er June due to the end of the agreement…
Health workforce and second-class patients
Will we need to revisit Yvon Deschamps’ formidable formula? We think about it. Saying that “it is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick” is perhaps no…
“There is terrible collateral damage” for patients, explains a representative of the CHT of Nouméa
Access to the hospital center is increasingly difficult, for patients and caregivers alike, explains Thierry de Greslan, president of the establishment’s medical commission. Published on 05/17/2024 08:30 Update on 05/17/2024…
patients confide their hopes and fears on the bill examined in the National Assembly
The deputies begin, on Monday, in a special committee, the examination of the text on the end of life. Patients want to make their voice heard in this debate which…