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Le syndrome des jambes sans repos, ou maladie de Willis-Ekbom, est un trouble neurologique provoquant un besoin impérieux de bouger les jambes au repos.
En France, 8,5 % de la population, soit 5,8 millions de personnes, ont déjà ressenti des « impatiences » nocturnes, ces sensations désagréables qui peuvent provoquer des secousses incontrôlées des jambes pendant le sommeil. Quand ces symptômes sont très occasionnels, on ne s’en inquiète guère. Mais chez environ 2 millions de Français, ils se manifestent quotidiennement et, dans les cas sévères, ce trouble neurologique connu sous le nom de « syndrome des jambes sans repos », également appelé maladie de Willis-Ekbom, se transforme en un véritable calvaire ! « On ne peut pas dormir, car dès qu’on est au repos, allongé ou même assis de façon un peu prolongée, on ressent un besoin impérieux de se lever et de marcher », résume Robert Parisot, président de l’Association France Ekbom (AFE).
Fondée en 2001 sous le nom d’Association française des personnes affectées du syndrome des jambes sans repos (AFSJR), elle a permis de faire entendre la voix de patients en souffrance, confrontés…
A decree published in the Official Journal regulates aesthetic medicine in France: doctors will have to practice for five years in their specialty, follow qualifying training and limit aesthetic activity to 30% of their medical time, the remaining 70% having to be devoted to care in their original specialty.
Each year in France, almost half of the 1,500 children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes arrive in a critical situation. Experts warn of the need to identify symptoms early to avoid ketoacidotic coma.

The ANSM announces that no French child treated with Zolgensma for spinal muscular atrophy has developed a tumor. Nine cases have been reported globally out of 6,000 patients. A European evaluation is underway, but the benefit of the treatment remains greater than the risk.

An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian flu was detected on November 6 in Lansac, in Gironde, in an individual. Sick animals were slaughtered and surveillance and protection zones were established. The level of epizootic risk increased from negligible to moderate on November 5, while England announced a nationwide poultry lockdown from Friday.
An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian flu was discovered on Monday in a farmyard in Saint-Sauveur-d'Emmalleville, in Seine-Maritime. The prefecture established restricted zones within a radius of 3 and 10 kilometers and ordered the culling of all birds in the contaminated establishment. This outbreak comes as the level of risk in mainland France went from “negligible” to “moderate” last week, due to infection dynamics in migratory wild avifauna in neighboring countries.

An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian flu was detected on Monday in a farmyard in Saint-Sauveur-d'Emmalleville, in Seine-Maritime. The prefecture has established regulated zones within a radius of 3 and 10 kilometers and plans to depopulate all birds from the contaminated farm. The level of risk in mainland France went from negligible to moderate last week.