Panic attacks trigger serious physical reactions without any real imminent danger. However, if left untreated, they can become very severe and disabling for those suffering from them. How can ...

Parental burn-out is poorly diagnosed and often hidden by parents overwhelmed with shame and guilt. It may seem similar to depression, but it initially affects only the family sphere. Stress and ...

Overweight or hypertension are not randomly distributed in our cities. On the contrary, they cluster in specific neighbourhoods. Geomedicine proves that individual responsibility is not everything. ...

Let's take look back on the history of cardiac transplantation with Swiss expert René Prêtre. How has the life of heart transplant patients really changed over the last 50 years? The tragic story ...

Why has the number of caesareans exploded in the past ten years? Is medical necessity always at the origin of the surgeon's decision to operate? Today, the growing number of health conditions related ...

How to account for the slow transition toward healthier agriculture as the overwhelming scientific evidence of the toxicity of pesticides is stacking up? Three quarters of flying insects have now ...

'There is no cure for who you are'. This is how a psychiatrist sums up how far we've come in recent years with regard to gender dysphoria, i.e. the permanent identification with the other gender and ...

Unmasking long COVID's medical maze, as patients tend to grasp at random any remedies that might work. For Caroline, Gloria, and Aurélie, long COVID upended life itself - and mainstream medicine is ...

Being exposed to too much screen time early on may cause serious consequences on the development of preschool-aged children. Delayed language acquisition and behavioural ssues are regularly observed ...

When one learns, often in adulthood, that one was born by sperm donation in medically assisted procreation, the news falls like a bombshell. Thousands of people learn that their father is not who ...