Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

World takes precautions against deadly Ebola outbreak (Update)

Nurses taking nervous passengers' temperatures at airports and isolation wards standing eerily empty waiting to receive anyone showing symptoms—the world was already on the lookout for Ebola victims before the WHO issued ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

France opts for 3rd shots, not lockdown, to fight new wave

France launched a plan Thursday to give COVID-19 booster shots to all adults, as it opted against a further lockdown or curfew to help combat a worrying uptick in infections in the country.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Virus death toll in Europe tops 120,000

The new coronavirus has killed more than 120,00 people in Europe with more than three quarters of those fatalities in Italy, France, Spain and Britain, according to an AFP tally on Saturday 1100 GMT using official figures.

Health

Keep going: world's oldest person eyes new longevity record

France's Sister Andre, believed to have become the oldest person alive this week at the age of 118, said Tuesday she would now like to beat the record of oldest person ever and that work and caring for others had long kept ...

Medical economics

France's Sanofi to cut 1,700 European jobs

Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi said Friday that it would eliminate 1,700 European jobs, including 1,000 in France, as part of a cost-cutting drive announced last December.

Other

French families sue state to recognize surrogate births

The families of surrogate children who have been effectively denied French citizenship have gone to the country's highest court to challenge the law denying birth certificates for babies born abroad.

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