While tobacco prevention has reduced the number of smokers, youth continue heavily to fall into tobacco addiction. The industry is thus doing all it can to seduce this strategic age group. ...

A year ago, the global revelation of the "Implant Files" showed how Health authorities across the globe have failed to protect millions of patients from poorly tested implants. Since then, the ...

What is amnesia and what is it like when our memories are replaced by a black hole? Amnesia can occur at any time. Shirley and Daniela have learnt it the hard way. Nicolas only came to realize the ...

Genomic preventive medicine is now a reality. The precision medicine, based on DNA genome sequencing, makes it possible to offer targeted treatments for patients with rare genetic diseases or for ...

Scientists have now found the missing evidence proving that nature does heal humans. Whether in the Japanese forest bathing or in the therapeutic garden of the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, ...

What's the human and economic toll of medically-assisted baby-making? For those determined to have a child at all costs, a sky-high price tag is not uncommon. Beyond egg freezing or seeking donor ...

Ancestral healing therapies resist all scientific progress and healers are overwhelmed by patients requests. By helping us mobilize our self-healing abilities, healers sometimes seem to work ...

Antibiotic resistance is, according to the WHO, one of the most serious threats to global health. Multidrug resistant bacteria modify our microbiota and the environment. They are responsible for the ...

In today's world, the quest for a new eye color is just a blink away, the cosmetic procedure away for the daring. Keratopigmentation is increasingly popular, although to prevent serious health ...

Are corpses just like any other commodity that can be sold with impunity? Donating one's body to science after death allows medical research and the training of surgeons to progress. But the ...