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European Society of Hypertension 2021 recommendations

The Société Française d'Hypertension Artérielle (SFHTA), in partnership with the European Society of Hypertension (ESH), has translated into French the 2021 recommendations of the European Society of Hypertension for the measurement of blood pressure in and out of the office. This step is [...]

Greetings 2022

Dear friends, The teams at Agir pour le Cœur des Femmes warmly thank you for your support throughout the year in the service of women's health. This wonderful adventure will continue in 2022 with ever more projects based on our 3 priorities: Alert - Anticipate - Act to save the lives of [...]

Rosalind Franklin, the unjustly forgotten story of the great scientist who discovered DNA

James Watson said of her: "She's got a real bad temper! It's all too easy to criticize someone's character when you want to harm them. But there's no denying that Rosalind has character, and fortunately so, for it's a character that has to be well forged when you're a [...]

Bus du Coeur des Femmes 2021: a very positive assessment!

The two objectives of the experimental Women's Heart Bus tour in 2021 have been met and exceeded: - screen 200 women in precarious situations in each stopover city (Lille, Marseille, Avignon, La Rochelle and Saint-Étienne); - raise public awareness of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause [...]

Bus du Coeur 2021: nearly 1,200 women screened

Another visit to the Bus du Coeur offered by the Korian Foundation. Our benevolent action at the service of all women in vulnerable situations, to help them reintegrate a cardio-gynecological care pathway was a great success in the five 2021 stopover towns: Lille, Marseille, Avignon, La Rochelle and [...]

Hildegarde, a visionary naturopath in the 12th century

It's true that since the Paleolithic era, our gathering ancestors have understood that certain plants have an effect on the health of the body, and that the medicine-women of Neanderthal clans kept seeds in their wineskins for use when they deemed it useful. It was the pharmacists of the 19th [...]

Cardiovascular disease in women

On the occasion of the Bus du Coeur's stopover in Avignon, the founders of the Agir pour le Coeur des Femmes endowment fund, Pr Claire Mounier-Vehier and Thierry Drilhon, give a wealth of information on cardiovascular disease in women in a program on RTV FM in partnership with Mutualité [...]

Le Bus du Coeur in Avignon

From October 13 to 15, nearly 200 women from disadvantaged backgrounds were screened by healthcare professionals on the Heart Bus for cardiological and gynecological problems. According to an initial assessment, 9 out of 10 women had cardiovascular risk factors, and were referred to a doctor as part [...]