Ne manquez pas le salon Forme et santé !
Click:Rhime Alien Proto 1Le succès remporté par les premièreséditions de Forme et santé devrait encore seconfirmer cette année. Alliant une informationmédicale de qualité à des aspects forme-bienêtre, ce salon est un lieu de communication,d’éducation et d’échanges entre les professionnels dela santé et le grand public.Cerise sur le gâteau cette année, il vous seraproposé de très…
NDP MPs Question Why Feds Are Working With Amazon
NDP MPs are questioning a contract between the federal government and Amazon, which announced it is withdrawing worker benefits implemented during the coronavirus pandemic. “This is one of the shittiest companies on the planet,” said Charlie Angus, who represents Timmins-James Bay. “You can’t find a better example of the abusive practices of labour in the…
Ontario Can Now Take Over Managing Care Homes Hit By COVID-19 Outbreaks
TORONTO — Ontario issued a new emergency order on Wednesday that will allow it to temporarily replace the management of some long-term care homes struggling to contain outbreaks of COVID-19, but the province’s health minister said there are no immediate plans to use it. Health Minister Christine Elliott said the new measure is meant to strengthen…
Snowbirds Capt. Jennifer Casey Remembered As Tenacious Storyteller
Capt. Jenn Casey is being remembered as a keen storyteller with a huge smile that could light up a room. The public affairs officer for the Canadian Forces Snowbirds was killed Sunday when the plane she was in crashed in Kamloops, B.C. The other occupant, pilot Capt. Richard MacDougall, was seriously injured. The aircraft went down in…
Will The Pandemic Finally Make Us Talk About Palliative Care?
OTTAWA — In the thick of the pandemic, Dr. Paul Hacker drafted a palliative care plan to manage a patient’s physical and emotional pain that his grandchildren were going to forget about him after he was gone. The man was dying from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — more commonly known as ALS or “Lou Gehrig’s disease”…
Gun Owners Don't Get Better Sleep, Aren't Happier: U of A Study
TUCSON, AZ — While some say gun owners sleep better at night, two studies by a University of Arizona researcher and his team found that assertion to be untrue. Those bearing arms, constitutionally speaking, don’t feel any happier than non-gun owners, the studies found. Terrence Hill, a U of A researcher and associate sociology professor,…
Slain Capital Gazette 'Hero' Deserves Medal Of Freedom: MD Reps
ANNAPOLIS, MD – Wendi Winters, one of the five slain Capital Gazette employees killed in a mass shooting, should be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for facing down the accused gunman with no more of a weapon than her trash and recycling bins, say the members Maryland’s Democratic Congressional delegation. The politicians on Monday…
En finir avec la rhinite !
Vous avez le nez qui coule et les yeux qui pleurent avecl’arrivée des beaux jours ? Il s’agitcertainement d’une rhinite allergique, en réaction aupollen. Et cela se reproduit chaque année, sans que vous nepuissez rien y faire. Heureusement, deux nouveaux traitementspourraient bien vous dégager les sinus. Le premier est un médicament déjàutilisé dans les crises…
Un p’tit blanc pour la santé
Vous connaissez les vertus du vin rouge : un verre par jourpermettrait de protéger vos artères. Que les amateursde petits blancs se rassurent, leur ballon pourrait receler lesmêmes bénéfices. En effet, les scientifiques de l’Université deMontpellier ont mis au point un procédé devinification qui permet de conserver les substances protectrices duraisin : les polyphénols. Ces…
Brocoli et poisson : le duo gagnant anti-cancer !
De nombreux aliments ont des vertus réelles ousupposées contre le cancer. Mais pour la premièrefois, une étude vient de démontrer que l’associationde deux composés se montre redoutable pour prévenirles tumeurs. Le premier ingrédient “miracle“ est le fameuxsélénium. Cet oligo-élément est connupour ses propriétés antioxydantes, permettant delutter contre les radicaux libres. L’autre arme absolue, nettementmoins connue,…