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Ipsos Health has interviewed 300 patients with common psychiatric illness, bipolar disorder. The survey, entitled ECHO and conducted at the initiative of 2 pharmaceutical companies can learn more about the experiences of people: terms of diagnosis, treatment, hospitalization felt, but also daily life and impact on family relationships and social.

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You do not smoke, you do not drink, eat balanced and you’re sporting … very good! Your healthy lifestyle helps prevent the risk of heart attack or stroke. But making love at least three or four times a week is even better!

You’re a pro squash, jogging, and sports endurance … no problem, your athletic performance enhance your capital cardiovascular health, toning your heart and blood vessels.

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Physical inactivity in a country with high technology development like ours, is characterized by the progressive reduction of physical effort in most of our daily actions: professional or domestic activities, travel, recreation, etc.. In summary, we walk less, there is less and less physical effort.

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antibiotics are effective medicines and necessary for certain diseases. For example, community-acquired pneumonia requires antibiotics always immediately. It is also important to distinguish the classic case of the adult and the child, especially in the case of the infant and if they have additional risk factors (chronic diseases, allergic … terrain).

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France is the champion all categories … consumption of antibiotics. Results: The resistors are more numerous here than anywhere else in Europe. Before the arrival of many diseases of winter, a development seems warranted.

Antibiotics are drugs that very effective. At one proviso: they act only on diseases caused by bacteria. When you are bedridden with viral illness, they are useless. If we consume less fortunately antibiotics a few years ago (11.6 million unnecessary treatments have been avoided since 2002), viral infections are still being prescribed unnecessary.

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Rare cancer of the ovary is one of the most serious gynecological cancer. Nearly 3 in 4 women treated have their cancer recur … Faced with this terrible cancer, a new hope appeared: a vaccine to prevent recurrence and thus to better combat this evil woman.

Although rare, ovarian cancer tends to recur and to be in this case very difficult to handle.Faced with this evil woman, therapeutic vaccination is a groundbreaking approach brings high hopes.

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Who has not succumbed at one time or another by fad diets? The speed advertised, the lost pounds promised the guarantee such as clinical or medical insurance and stay slim lead every year many French to put their bodies to “test” or in danger.

While most schemes, whatever the method is actually “lose weight” on balance, at least the first month, this relative efficiency does not necessarily mean healthy, far away. The weight loss achieved happens not just on small rolls of unsightly fat but also muscle and body water. So, by taking constraints and restrictions, these senseless schemes result in a caloric deprivation often too large, which not only produces an effect “yo-yo” guaranteed, but also a multitude of health problems that are far from being considered as benign by all true nutrition experts.

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Frequent and increasing, asthma is responsible for 2 000 deaths each year. To improve care and reduce the terrible toll the development of therapeutic education is essential. It should soon be more accessible or refunded.

Bachelot law or statute “Hospital Patients, Health and Territory” passed in June 2009 stresses the importance of therapeutic education. What does that mean? What is its efficiency, particularly in asthma? Answers from Dr. Marc Sapene, pulmonologist and president of the Asthma and Allergy Association, and Marie-Pierre Rinn, asthmatic and Chair of the antenna Tours of this association.

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Depression is a treatable disease and cure. To heal, you must necessarily drugs (antidepressants). These drugs are more effective if you follow along with psychotherapy. Many falsely believe that we must choose between psychotherapy and medication. There is nothing quite the contrary, the two complement treatment: medication and psychotherapy together and cons depression.

The treatment of depression takes time. Experts believe, in fact it must last at least six months. Below this length, you may relapse. And if you’ve been depressed once in your life, you do not want to repeat. To heal, it is necessary to regularly monitor your treatment. This is the key to success, yet we know that three patients did not follow his treatment well.

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In France, nearly 300 000 people are infected with hepatitis B and there are 500 new cases per year. But more than half of patients do not discover their status at the stage of complications. How to tell if you’re at risk?

Transmissible and silent infection with hepatitis B (HBV) is still largely under diagnosed and inadequately treated. An intolerable situation when we know that effective treatments exist.

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