the essential Since yesterday, a dozen retired doctors have started to receive, with or without an appointment, at the new consultation center, the people of Tarnais who are deprived of an attending physician. Emergency, emergency solution. Friday evening, by means of a press release, the Regional Health Agency announced the opening of a “new unscheduled … Read more
The study looked at data from over 10,000 people in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Cursed Monday! And not just because for most of us it means going back to work. On Sunday June 4, the journal EurekAlert relayed the results of a study conducted by doctors from the Belfast Health and Social … Read more
the essential The National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM) is launching a prevention campaign this Wednesday, June 7. The organization recalls that the “misuse of drugs can have serious consequences by causing more adverse effects”. Three out of ten French people adapt the dose or duration of the drugs prescribed to them themselves, according to a … Read more
the essential This is the 8th group. The Camille Miret Institute offers training to relatives of a person with schizophrenia or related disorders. This is ProFamille: a long psychoeducational program to train those around patients and enable them to better understand the disease on a daily basis. “When I told my son that I was … Read more
the essential A scientific day on the early management of psychoses has just been held in Montpellier at the initiative of the Regional Federation for Research in Psychiatry and Mental Health of Occitanie. Dr Philippe Raynaud de Prigny, director of the psychiatry center at Thuir hospital and co-director of the Regional Federation for Research in … Read more
the essential Migraine is the second most debilitating disease after back pain according to the World Health Organization. It requires specific support. A public conference on the subject is organized in Toulouse on June 9. How many migraine sufferers go under the diagnostic radar? Hard to say. “But a study carried out in Nice by … Read more
the essential Since June 2, the thermal baths of Argelès-gazost have closed their building for a period of fifteen days. Nothing serious, but a glitch that falls badly. The tourist agency of the valleys of Gavarnie announced, at the end of last week, that the thermal baths of Argelès-Gazost closed their doors for a period … Read more
Following the detection of an outbreak of avian influenza in Masseube (Gers), a perimeter of 20 kilometers around the contaminated farm was placed in a “regulated zone”. 11 communes of Comminges are therefore concerned by this decree, of which here is the list: Boulogne-sur-Gesse, Gensac-de-Boulogne, L’Isle-en-Dodon, Molas, Mondilhan, Montbernard, Montesquieu-Guittaut, Nénigan, Péguilhan- Lunax, Puymaurin and … Read more
the essential Last Wednesday, the La Vernède clinic in Conques-sur-Orbiel inaugurated its new branch: a day hospital mainly specializing in the care of the elderly. The extension came out of the ground in August 2022, but it was not until Wednesday May 31 that the day hospital of the La Vernède clinic (Inicea, a subsidiary … Read more
the essential In the afternoon of Monday, June 5, kindergarten students in the middle and large section felt burns on their toes while swimming in the municipal swimming pool in the town of Mailhac. Following this incident, the town hall evacuated the schoolchildren and closed the swimming pool. Monday, June 5, around forty pupils from … Read more