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1 week ago | 
bmj.com | Barbara Casassus
News & ViewsFrench surgeon who... French surgeon who sexually abused 299 patients is jailed for 20 years
News BMJ 2025; 389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1109 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;389:r1109 The retired French surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing 299 patients, most of them minors, in hospitals in western France from 1989 to 2014.
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3 weeks ago | 
bmj.com | Barbara Casassus
News BMJ 2025; 389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r997 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;389:r997 France’s Defender of Rights, a constitutional authority of the French government but independent of it, has alleged widespread discrimination in the country’s healthcare provision.
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1 month ago | 
science.org | Barbara Casassus
Europe is getting serious about its attempts to lure U.S. researchers who have lost their jobs or want to leave the country because of the assault on research by President Donald Trump’s administration.
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1 month ago | 
thebookseller.com | Barbara Casassus
Amazon’s latest survey on French reading habits shows that 71% consider it easier to access the books they want to read online than by any other means. Of the total, 77% said it was easier to find the information they need to make their choice, and 72% said there was a greater variety of titles than before. The survey, to mark the 25th anniversary of the company’s arrival in France, was conducted by polling agency IFOP among a representative sample of 3,000 of French people aged at least 18.
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1 month ago | 
thebookseller.com | Barbara Casassus
You are viewing your 1 free article this month. Login to read more articles. News More independent bookshops opened than closed in France last year, but the sector’s three-year buoyancy post-Covid continues to lose steam.
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1 month ago | 
bmj.com | Barbara Casassus
News & ViewsFrench ministers sued... French ministers sued over “epidemic” of healthcare worker suicides in hospitals
News BMJ 2025; 389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r826 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;389:r826 Following a number of suicides among medical staff in public hospitals, three French government ministers are being taken to court accused of manslaughter, institutional moral harassment, and other offences.
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1 month ago | 
thebookseller.com | Barbara Casassus
Nearly a third of French authors say relations with their publishers have worsened over the past three years, and more than half are in favour of creating a mediation commission to help solve disputes. These were two findings from the 10th barometer of author-publisher relations, which was carried out for the collection agency Scam and the authors society Société des Gens de Lettres (SGDL) and published exclusively by Livres Hebdo on 8th April.
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1 month ago | 
thebookseller.com | Barbara Casassus
Second-hand books, new prizes and reading for pleasure were on the agenda at last week’s three-day Paris Book Festival, which closed its doors on Sunday evening (13th April). The festival returned to the Grand Palais near the Champs Elysées after an absence of more than 30 years. Measures to remunerate authors and publishers from the sale of second-hand books, promised by President Emmanuel Macron a year ago, became top of the agenda.
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2 months ago | 
thebookseller.com | Barbara Casassus
The Hachette Livre staff have said they are “ashamed” to be associated with , which is controlled by multi-billionaire Vincent Bolloré and his family. In a message to colleagues, revealed by Challenges and published in full by the online literary website ActuaLitté, the publisher’s elected works council denounced the alleged far-right editorial policy of the “Bolloré sphere,” which includes publishing house Fayard, and several media.
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2 months ago | 
thebookseller.com | Barbara Casassus
French publishers, authors and composers are taking Meta (formerly Facebook) to court in Paris for allegedly using copyrighted work without permission from creators, or their publishers, in order to develop its generative artificial intelligence (AI) model.
