Archive November 2008

e-pidemic: when Google and Yahoo go one better than the CDC

Two major articles on early warning infectious disease surveillance have just been published: Ginsberg et coll., published in Nature [on line] on 19 November 2008 (article free on line), and Polgreen et coll in Clinical Infectious Diseases on 1 December 2008 (abstract free on line, but US$15 for the complete article). These two independent studies [...]

Reforming legal protection system for adults in France

Legislators have taken up the ambitious challenge of trying to reform the legal protection system for adults in France (law of 5 March 2007 which comes into force on 1 January 2009). Although the decrees applying this law have still not been published less than 40 days before the reform comes into effect, I should [...]

Publik Health!

The School of Public Health held its first European days on 30 and 31 October as part of the French Presidency of the European Union to mark the start of the Epidemik exhibition at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie. Six roundtables were organised to discuss obesity, ageing and emerging diseases. The European members [...]


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“Questions d’éthique biomédicale” (Flammarion) ouvrage dirigé par Jean-François Mattei