Often silent and asymptomatic, hepatitis C is a viral infection of the liver that is transmitted through the blood and may eventually cause cirrhosis and primary cancer of the liver. If antiviral treatments developed since 2014 can cure more than 90% of cases, hepatitis C continues to wreak havoc around the world.

A 32-year-old woman with measles died at the CHU Poitiers, announced the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of New Aquitaine on Tuesday. Hospitalized on February 1, she was placed in intensive care the next day. The exact date of her death was not communicated, but the ARS said she was not vaccinated.

20% Teens experience a depressive episode, which makes them suffer at a pivotal time in their lives, but which can also be responsible for many suicides. A new study published in JAMA highlights the positive effect of an online psychotherapeutic intervention, called CATCH-IT, on the prevention of depression in at-risk adolescents.

The team of the new Heart Institute Lung CHU Lille can boast a great success. That of having arrived for the first time in France to perform the transplantation of an "isolated heart perfused" transported over long distances. Less risk of failure But how is this transport technique, already used abroad, so revolutionary?

Glial cells, oligodendrocytes and astrocytes, which surround neurons, are the most abundant cells in the brain. Contrary to what we thought so far, these cells do not have a simple support function for neurons: they have a major influence on the performance of neurons in complex intellectual processes such as memory.