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Les check-up médicaux sont des bilans de santé qui visent à s'assurer du bon état général. Ces bilans permettent de dépister certaines anomalies éventuelles, pouvant être corrigées par des moyens de préventions, ou à détecter d’éventuelles pathologies précocement, permettant la mise en œuvre d'actions correctrices immédiates.

The French Ethics Committee leads important mission such as elucidating scientific progress, raising new issues challenging society and observing change from the perspective of ethics. CCNE’s continuing task is to stimulate reflection on bioethics by contributing to controversial discussion within society.

Researchers are now able to edit the genome with precision using the “gene editing scissors” of CRISPR-Cas9, which is a highly promising tool for gene therapy.

A medical first by the medical team of the Institut Cœur Poumon (Lille Hospital).

Each year 17 million people worldwide suffer a stroke. Around 30 percent of these are mini strokes caused by changes in the small vessels of the brain.

The first one at the CHU of Nîmes.

Ce mardi, le CHU de Tours a signé deux conventions pour permettre la prise en charge d'enfants étrangers en chirurgie maxillo-faciale. Une jeune Tunisienne a déjà été opérée en juillet dernier.

Patients suffering from CLOVES Syndrome (Congenital Lipomatous Overgrowth, Vascular Malformation, Epidermal Naevi) or similar disorders have major deformities and vascular masses due to mutations of a gene called PIK3CA. BYL719 is the name of the new medication.

8 years after his first face transplant, the patient developped a chronic rejection.