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Owners lend second homes so sick children in France get a holiday

We look at the charities matching holiday home owners with struggling families

Why these French cheeses are not recommended to young children

Two young children were hospitalised with severe food poisoning in December

Scheme sends clowns to cheer up children in hospital in France

New volunteer clowns are trained by professionals before interacting with children and their families

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Boy, 16, compensated in France after mother’s exposure to glyphosate

It is the first official acknowledgment of a link between the pesticide and prenatal damage

Medicine shortage: antibiotic stocks in France may be low until spring

Supply problems with amoxicillin and paracetamol have highlighted reliance on chemicals from China and India

French health authority approves vaccination of five to 11-year-olds

Vaccination should, however, remain voluntary for 5.4 million children in this age group, says the Haute Autorité de Santé

Children in France prescribed too many medicines, says new study

France has one of the highest levels of drug consumption in Europe, study finds, with half of children aged under two taking more than nine medicines per year

French Covid study: Kids less contagious than adults

Children are less likely to be contaminated or to contaminate others with Covid-19, a French study of 605 children under the age of 15 has shown.

First child dies in France from ‘Covid-linked’ illness

A nine-year-old child has become the first person to die in France from an illness similar to Kawasaki disease, which doctors believe may be related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19.

Film star Johnny Depp visits French kids’ hospital

American actor Johnny Depp has made a surprise visit to the pediatric hospital at cancer research unit l’Institut Curie in Paris, meeting sick children and teenagers; and doctors, nurses, and researchers.

The role of the school nurse and (rare) doctor

Children are unlikely to escape illness during their school years so it is useful to know what health services are available. Dr Marianne Barré, is the general secretary of the school doctors’ union, the Syndicat National Des Médecins Scolaires et Universitaires, and explains procedures during schooling to Jane Hanks

Child illness

Owners lend second homes so sick children in France get a holiday

Why these French cheeses are not recommended to young children

Scheme sends clowns to cheer up children in hospital in France

Boy, 16, compensated in France after mother’s exposure to glyphosate

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