Cuban authorities will evacuate residents of vulnerable areas in the western province of Pinar del Rio, while Florida’s governor has declared a state of emergency in the face of incoming downpours, gales and storm surges. Tropical Storm Ian strengthened into a hurricane on Monday, as Florida braces for possible flooding this week. The National Hurricane … Read more
A person waits in line to enter a CSL Plasma donation center in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., Wednesday, July 29, 2020.Up to 10% of the blood plasma collected in the U.S. -millions of liters a year- comes from Mexicans.-millions of liters a year- comes from Mexicans. But frequent donation also presents health risks. The decision comes … Read more
An abortion rights activist during a vigil a few hours before Indiana’s near-total abortion ban goes into effect in Bloomington, Indiana. This injunction, which has been blocked for 50 years, has a single exception to the rule: if the woman’s life is in danger. The ruling is likely to be appealed. The state of Arizona … Read more
Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders speaks before former President Donald Trump at an America First Policy Institute agenda summit at the Washington Marriott Marquis, July 26, 2022. Donald Trump’s former press secretary, and current candidate for governor of Arkansas, announced that she came out well from the operation in which she had her … Read more
“It’s the most significant threat to the mainland that we’ve had this hurricane season,” a meteorologist says of Hermine’s threat from Florida to Texas. Hurricane Fiona reached Category 4 on Wednesday, becoming the most powerful storm of the season in the Atlantic Ocean as it travels toward the Bermuda Islands with winds of more than … Read more
the essentialPatients and associations are organizing to initiate collective legal action against the Dutch manufacturer Philips Electronics. The group has launched a global product recall campaign for “positive pressure” devices, used to fight sleep apnea. These artificial respirators were found to be defective. This is a particularly important page that turns in the “Respiratorgate” file. … Read more
the essentialToulouse researchers have measured the impact, over a year, of the first confinement thanks to an unprecedented survey. They show that the restrictive measures taken to fight against Covid-19 between March 17 and May 11, 2020 have impacted the cardiovascular and psychological health of the French people. There were the immediate effects of the … Read more
How to slow down the process of aging? Can I gain a few years of life? Have a way of life healthy really help? These are questions that many of us ask ourselves and to which science provides some answers. In particular, we know that diet plays an important role. A new study published in … Read more
The death of Pr Luc Montagnier, a French researcher who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008 for the discovery of HIV, inevitably recalls the names of the other scientists involved in this major advance, such as the French Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Jean-Claude Chermann… or the American Robert Gallo. A look back at a … Read more
Donation campaign February 2022 Dear reader friends. We are launching a new donation campaign for this month of February and we are counting on you to help us continue our work of information. Recently, we carried out tests of advertising insertions in our publications, but we quickly gave up because they proved to be very … Read more