French health minister seeks nap study
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The French already enjoy a 35-hour work week and generous vacation. Now the health minister wants to look into whether workers should be allowed to sleep on the job.
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Every day, in hospitals all over the country, biology clashes with medicine. Biology demands sleep; medicine dictates long hours without it.
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France's Ministry of Health made a statement yesterday warning citizens not to use their cell phones too much, although actual data on specific health risks remains inconclusive.
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French ministers are preparing to receive individual performance reviews to find out whether they are getting the job done in the reformist government of President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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OTTAWA (CP) - On the heels of his well-publicized call for medical watchdogs to crack down on doctors working for Internet pharmacies, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh is asking his provincial counterparts to do their part.
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BEAUPRE, Que. (CP) - Quebec Premier Jean Charest called Thursday for a First Ministers meeting on federal transfer payments after provincial leaders meet in September with Prime Minister Paul Martin to discuss health-care.
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The French health minister has promised to step up hospital security after two nurses were brutally murdered at work. Philippe Douste-Blazy held emergency talks a day after the nurses&#39; bodies were found at
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France's Prime Minister outlines plans to extend the controversial 35-hour working week.
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Reply by M. Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister, to a question in the National Assembly.
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President Jacques Chirac called for &quot;wholesale changes&quot; in France&#39;s mental health sector yesterday as hospitals throughout the country held a minute&#39;s silence in memory of two nurses hacked to death at a psychiatric unit at the weekend.
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Too many teenagers are getting too little "good" sleep which is harmful to their health, warn researchers.
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The health minister pledges to investigate claims of waiting list manipulation.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy, his wife and EU officials pressed for the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to life in prison in Libya for allegedly infecting children with AIDS, the president's office said Monday.
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<img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20071024/capt.fc5e5224d7d04d70afc3ea2ce8d0e555.france_environemnt_par101.jpg?x=100&y=130&sig=OCqHdDExdgc.WJ6j9o.h5Q--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="Cars line up on the highway just outside Paris, Wednesday Oct. 24, 2007. France's government began national talks Wednesday aimed at changing the way the French treat the environment, as part of the president's bid to put the country in the forefront of the fight against global warming. The European Parliament proposed tighter emissions limits for car makers but more time to reach them as part of plans to fight global warming. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon) \
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France calls for the boycott of aid to the Palestinians to be re-examined if a national unity government is formed.
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The French Health Ministry on Wednesday issued a warning against excessive mobile phone use, especially by children, though it recognized science had not proved cellular technology was dangerous.
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NEW YORK  - Pregnancy doesn't have to mean nine months of sleep deprivation, a noted sleep expert says.