أرشيف الوسم : Health

The world is in the grip of an unprecedented hunger crisis. A toxic combination of climate crisis, conflict and Covid had already placed some of the poorest countries under enormous strain, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent grain and fuel prices soaring.

Chaque année, des dizaines de milliers de médecins du monde entier se réunissent à Chicago, aux États-Unis, pour découvrir les dernières innovations en matière de diagnostic et de traitement du cancer.

Prices in the US rose faster than expected last month, as rising energy and food costs pushed inflation to the highest rate since 1981.

Lundi 30 mai, à l'occasion de la journée mondiale de la sclérose en plaques, le JT du 12/13 rencontre Céline Hendrickx-Candéla, une ancienne championne de voile, atteinte de la maladie. 

La transmission de la variole du singe "peut être stoppée dans les pays non endémiques", a affirmé lundi une haute responsable de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS). Il y a actuellement "moins de 200 cas confirmés et suspectés" dans ces pays.

Israel, Switzerland and Austria are the latest countries to confirm cases of monkeypox, bringing the total number of nations reporting outbreaks to 15.

Suspensions follow reports that some people developed blood clots after receiving the shot, but the WHO and the EMA say they have seen no evidence of a link.

Jordan's health minister has resigned after six people died due to a lack of oxygen at a hospital ward treating Covid-19 patients, state media report.

Health systems in most of Brazil's largest cities are close to collapse because of Covid-19 cases, its leading health institute warns.

Air pollution in British cities must urgently be reduced. The public, and particularly people who have asthma – or other conditions that place them at increased risk from breathing particulate matter or gases including nitrogen dioxide – must be much better informed about the threat to their health.