Repeated lockdowns, isolation, financial uncertainty, lack of plans and social disconnection due to the COVID-19 pandemic have been quite an ordeal for us over the past year. Many people feel isolated in the reduced environments we’re living in. We have few external connections and worry about our [...]
Patients have stopped going to hospitals and clinics in the past few weeks. Yet chronic diseases haven’t gone away, and symptoms are still occurring. Patients are ignoring them and waiting until the last minute to see a doctor. Professor Claire Mounier-Vehier, cardiologist and head of the vascular [...]
Alert after a period that was hard on our lifestyles “Lockdown was a time when a third of French people gained weight,” says Prof. Claire Mounier-Vehier, MD, cofounder of Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation (Agir pour le Cœur des Femmes) and a cardiologist at University Hospital [...]