Chronic diarrhea: a step forward for better diagnosis
Collecting blood samples would make it easier to diagnose and better target treatments for chronic diarrhea. THE ESSENTIAL Diarrhea results ...
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Cervical cancer: towards vaginal self-sampling
Cervical cancer caused the death of 1,117 people last year, in particular because screening is too low in France. In ...
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Medicine: a drone travels 260 km for a delivery
A drone containing blood samples traveled 260 km in three hours of flight, setting a new record.Drones could become a ...
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Organ donation: Spain holds the world record
With 40 donors per million inhabitants, Spain is the world champion in organ donation. A success linked to a unique ...
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Needle-free blood test to measure cholesterol
An American company has invented a device that draws blood without a needle. In two minutes, it extracts enough blood ...
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Organ donation: Families only informed
The deputies adopted an amendment which provides for “informing” and no longer “consulting” the families of organ donors, in order ...
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Organ donation: a third of families refuse it
Organ removals for a transplant are up 4% over 2013. Refusals are down slightly, but a third of families continue ...
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Transplant: a technique prolongs the life of the organs to be transplanted
Store in the cold, and supply oxygen and nutrients: this is how researchers were able to preserve organs for up ...
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Organ donation: 1 in 2 French people have spoken
June 22 is National Organ Donation Day. The stake of this day is that as many people as possible tell ...
Read moreChorionic villus sampling
Video of Information video: chorionic villus sampling With the help of chorionic villus sampling (chorionic biopsy) the DNA of the ...
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More than 5,000 transplants performed in France
It is a symbolic threshold which has just been crossed for the first time. In 2012, 5,023 organ transplants were ...
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