Month: May 2020

Plusieurs milliers de couples sont confrontés chaque année au drame d’un enfant né sans vie. Alertés par des parents, le médiateur de la république, Jean-Paul Delevoye, a mené un travail de fond sur ce sujet, permettant notamment de reconnaître le congé paternité pour les pères concernés. Il nous alerte aujourd’hui sur l’importance de poser un…

Un peu plus de dix ans après leur mise au point, les trithérapies ont révolutionné la prise en charge des patients atteints par le VIH. Depuis leur utilisation, l’espérance de vie des personnes infectées aurait progressé de 13 ans, soit une baisse de mortalité de 40 %. Le Professeur Robert Hogg et son équipe de l’Université…

Carey Mulligan est décidément l’une des actrices les plus en vue du moment! On vient d’apprendre qu’elle sera au casting d’”Inside Llewyn Davis” des frères Coen, et du prochain film de Spike Jonze. Actuellement à l’affiche de Drive, et bientôt sur les écrans avec le nouveau film de Steve McQueen (II), Shame, sans oublier le…

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised the possibility of extending emergency federal aid programs to ease the economic burden from COVID-19 as his government announced one-time payments for seniors that an advocacy group says falls short of helping their financial crunch. The federal government is set to spend more than $146 billion, with $2.5 billion…

Click:Flexographic Printing Manufacturer TORONTO — Ontario will announce stage one of its three-part reopening this week, Premier Doug Ford said at a press conference Tuesday.  “We’re making steady progress. On Sunday, we saw the lowest daily number of new cases [of COVID-19] since March 31,” Ford said. “On Thursday we will share more good news…

OTTAWA — Health Canada says it has authorized the first COVID-19 serological test for use in the country to detect antibodies specific to the virus. DiaSorin, an Italian multinational biotechnology company, had developed the LIAISON test that was also recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In a statement Tuesday, Health Canada says…

Lingering uncertainty over the COVID-19 pandemic is prompting some Canadian post-secondary students to reconsider their plans for the fall, even as more schools announce strategies to navigate evolving health and safety measures. In recent days, several universities — including McGill University, the University of British Columbia and the University of Ottawa — have unveiled broad plans for…

WASHINGTON — Canada is not yet prepared to confront the challenges inherent in reopening the shared border with the United States, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday, stopping short of confirming that a ban on non-essential travel will be extended to June 21.   The federal government has asked to extend the current ban, which is…

TORONTO — Ontario’s health-care system must shift its focus away from hospitals and towards strong community care for everyone if it hopes to stave off future crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, the organization representing the province’s nurses said Tuesday as it called for urgent, sweeping reforms. The Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario said hospitals were…

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…