HIV: having a pet impacts access and use of healthcare
Adults living with HIV may face difficult choices when balancing their own health needs with the care of their pet. ...
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Telemedicine: “We must not enter into a system of express consultations!”
Teleconsultations, which experienced spectacular growth during the health crisis, no longer constitute a minor part of medical activity while telemedicine ...
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Cystitis and angina: antibiotics soon to be prescribed in pharmacies
Pharmacists will soon be able to prescribe antibiotics themselves for patients suffering from angina or cystitis, after carrying out a ...
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Soon telemedicine cabins in stations
The SNCF has launched a procedure aimed at installing telemedicine cabins in the halls, forecourts or car parks of stations ...
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Podiatrists authorized to prescribe orthopedic insoles
The RIST law expands the skills of podiatrists in the prescription of plantar orthoses, with the aim of improving access ...
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A third of Ile-de-France residents gave up medical care in 2022
Access to care remains complicated in Île-de-France. A third of its inhabitants have waived or postponed examinations and consultations over ...
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Renunciation of care: precarious women in majority
The improvement in the state of health of the French does not benefit everyone. And the gaps are widening to ...
Read moreAccess to care: France is in 15th place
As the children prepare to receive their last school report of the year, France is taking note of its "health ...
Read moreAccess to care: waiting times have lengthened further
Sore throat, hoarse voice, fever. After hoping that grandmother's remedies and your self-medication skills would suffice, you realize the obvious: ...
Read moreDental care: the Court of Auditors calls for an in-depth reform
" Overwhelming ". This would be the adjective chosen by the Court of Auditors to qualify the report it wrote ...
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Remains at zero charge: opticians and audioprosthetists do not play the game
Many opticians and audioprosthetists are still resistant to the “100% Health” or “remains at zero charge” device, which facilitates access ...
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Prisons: a report denounces the very complicated access to care
The International Prison Observatory denounces very complicated access to specialized care for prisoners. Focus on health in detention. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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Nurses denounce their lack of time to take care of patients
Not enough time for patients, inequalities in care, excessively long delays, bed closures, difficult access to emergency services… The assessment ...
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Ophthalmology: 56% of French people wait more than 4 months to get an appointment
In France, more than half of patients have to wait an average of 4 months or more to be able ...
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Abortion: Parliament extends the deadline to 14 weeks
After a long legislative process, the legal deadline for an abortion has been increased from 12 to 14 weeks.It took ...
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Health: a childhood in the city or in the countryside, what is the difference?
Urban children have better access to health care than children living in the countryside. THE ESSENTIAL Children in rural areas ...
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“Many innovative health projects are centered on a strong idea: to allow better access to care”
The launch of the Specialized Medicine Innovation Center was announced on December 10 by the Confederation of French Medical Unions ...
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Medical deserts: growing inequalities in access to care
The Observatory of the French mutual provides a worrying panorama in its latest study on geographical inequalities in access to ...
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Professor Yonathan Freund: “In 2022 in the emergency room, patients will still be on stretchers…”
After a historic health crisis, Dr. Jean-François Lemoine receives in this series "The Day After" the main players in the ...
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Podcast: “In nursing homes we may have more deaths than with the heat wave”
Today in our daily audio meeting hosted by Dr Jean-François Lemoine: a severe survey for the executive in its management ...
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Teleconsultation: one in two French people prefer direct contact with their doctor
Nearly 18 months after health insurance took charge of teleconsultation, nearly 7 out of 10 French people say they are ...
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“Deuxiemeavis.fr” is 4 years old: “We are a connection accelerator with specialists”
The "Deuxiemeavis.fr" website celebrates its 4th anniversary. It makes it possible to obtain, on the medical file, a second diagnosis ...
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Emergencies: 113, soon to be a single health number?
In a report addressed to the Minister of Health on the overhaul of emergency services, deputies recommend the establishment of ...
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Access to care: it’s proven, more general practitioners increases life expectancy
10 additional general practitioners per 100,000 inhabitants are associated with an average increase of 51.4 days in life expectancy. A ...
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Medical deserts: increasingly rare doctors in Ile-de-France
Once well off, Ile-de-France has become a medical desert, where 76% of the population does not have good access to ...
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Nearly 167,000 French women do not have a midwife or maternity hospital near their home
167,000 French women of childbearing age find themselves without a midwife or maternity unit near their home, that is to ...
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Home health providers oppose government’s cost-saving plan
On Wednesday, December 12, the four main players in home health care left the meeting convened by the Economic Committee ...
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Access to care: the territorial divide is getting worse
The College of Physicians has just reported many disparities in its annual Atlas of medical demography. Since 2010, the number ...
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Medical assistants: 4,000 positions created to “give back time to doctors”
On Friday October 26, MPs gave the green light to the creation of 4,000 new posts for medical assistants. Voted ...
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Pharmacists will be able to dispense certain drugs without a doctor’s prescription
Community pharmacists will be able to dispense without a prescription ("prescribe") certain drugs which are normally only prescribed by doctors. ...
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