Fight against cancer: Brussels wants to reduce inequalities in the EU
The Commission has presented a new plan to roll back this disease, which killed 1.3 million Europeans in 2020. The EU, too, wants to arm ...
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Lung cancer: the idea of screening is gaining ground
Learned societies recommend screening for smokers or former smokers between the ages of 50 and 74. On February 4, the President of the Republic will ...
Covid-19: in Le Havre, the “massive” screening will not follow
At present, 25 pharmacies in the agglomeration carry out the tests, against 7 before. The first “massive screening” operation conducted in France from December 14 ...
Covid-19: the first lessons from the massive screening carried out in Le Havre
DECRYPTION – In six days, 11% of the population of the city and surrounding municipalities was tested. For what assessment? The first “massive screening” operation ...
Covid: is France one of the countries in Europe that performs the most screening tests?
THE CHEKING PROCESS – This is what Prime Minister Jean Castex said. Is this really the case as several massive screening campaigns are starting in ...
Can France test its entire population at once like Slovakia did?
THE CHEKING PROCESS – The rapid tests allowed a small country to test two-thirds of its population twice within a week of each other. Would ...
Covid-19: a massive screening experience in Liverpool
STORY – A giant test should allow prospects for an exit from repeated confinements and specific local restrictions, pending the arrival of a vaccine. A ...
Coronavirus and rapid swabs in schools: where can they be done?
What are quick swabs?THE quick swabs or antigen test detect the presence of the virus in infected individuals. As in the traditional swab, the sampling ...
With Covid-19 sniffer dogs, trained to spot positive people
REPORTAGE – Professor Dominique Grandjean’s team trains dogs to detect the smell of Covid-19. A project which, according to the veterinarian, could participate in the ...
In search of an effective strategy for screening for Covid-19
The Academies of Medicine and Pharmacy recommend a pragmatic approach to unclog medical biology laboratories. People make queur in front of a medical biology laboratory ...