Community pharmacists' perceptions of their challenges in relation to older adults prescribed psychotropic medications: a focus-group study.

Background: The management of psychotropic medication in older adults is a challenge for every healthcare professional, but data concerning community pharmacists are scarce in the literature.

Aim: Our objectives were i) to understand the difficulties encountered by community pharmacists in managing older adults on psychotropic medication, and ii) to identify potential solutions to the difficulties discussed.

Method: A qualitative study by focus group was proposed to all community pharmacists in the vicinity of the university hospital of Angers, France, between May and June 2023.

Large-Scale Outbreak of Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infection, Marseille, France, 2023-2024.

We report a large-scale outbreak of Mycoplasma pneumoniae respiratory infections encompassing 218 cases (0.8% of 26,449 patients tested) during 2023-2024 in Marseille, France. The bacterium is currently circulating and primarily affects children <15 years of age.

[Chondroblastoma of bone ].

Background: Chondroblastoma is a rare and benign cartilaginous tumor of bone often localized in the epiphysis of long bones and affecting young persons between 10 and 20 years.

Aim: To study the epidemiological, clinical and radiological aspects of bone chondroblastoma, to assess the outcome of chirurgical treatment and factors associated with recurrence.

Methods: It's a retrospective study, concerning 13 patients with chondroblastoma of bone, attending the orthopedic department of Sahloul hospital between 1991 and 2007.

[Pneumorachis: report of three rare causes].

The presence of gas in the spinal canal or pneumorachis is a rare imaging finding, typically incidental. Pneumorachis may be due to several degenerative, traumatic, infectious, tumoral or iatrogenic etiologies. We report three cases of pneumorachis in patients with lumbar back pain.