French women will no longer need to declare marital status on official forms after the government demanded the term "mademoiselle" be dropped. Solidarity Minister Roselyne Bachelot (pictured) said the move would "end a form of discrimination".
France announced Tuesday that the term "mademoiselle" would be banned from official documents along with any mention of a woman's husband's name, in a move Solidarity Minister Roselyne Bachelot (pictured) said ended "a form of discrimination".
French newspapers look into whether France overly prepared for the H1N1 epidemic. And Laura Smet, the daughter of French icon Johnny Hallyday, allegedly attempted to kill herself in a Parisian church.
France's health minister Roselyne Bachelot has anounced that the government will spend one billion euros on ninety-four million doses of the vaccine to combat the influenza A (H1N1) virus.
France's Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot says the spread of swine flu across France is too moderate to justify raising the country's alert level, despite the World Health Organisation's decision to declare a global pandemic.
The French Senate has adopted a controversial law -- proposed by Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot (pictured) -- aiming to reform hospital management and the organisation of France's healthcare system.
Roselyne Bachelot, French Health Minister (pictured) announced through a spokesperson on Saturday that France would no longer classify transsexuality as a mental illness.
As the French senate discusses the “Bachelot laws” that would redistribute administrative power in hospitals, medical staff are poised for another strike.
In the French capital’s oldest hospital, emergency physicians slam an upcoming hospital reform they say will sacrifice the quality of medical treatment in order to save money. Senate debates are expected to be heated next week.
Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot said two A/H1N1 swine flu infections have been confirmed and 22 cases are being investigated, with seven considered 'probable'. All are people who had travelled to Mexico.
