The discomfort has long been perceived as a compulsory passage from the living environment, a dark crossing that we readily associated with the crisis of the quarantine. This idea, anchored in collective representations, today seems to lose all validity. A discreet but deep reversal takes place in international data, revealing a generational rocking. The low … Read more
Avian flu is raising concern in New Zealand Aviary flu has been worried for many years. It must be said that this disease, a viral infection, does many damage in poultry (chickens, ducks, turkeys), but also birds. Because the avian flu is transmitted from individual to individual, the disease may be found on a territory … Read more
[Un article de The Conversation écrit par Pranoti Mandrekar – Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School] Third avoidable cause of cancer. By way of comparison, alcohol-related road accidents cause approximately 13,500 deaths a year in the United States. (In France, in 2018, 28,000 new cases of cancer was attributable to alcohol, or 8 % of … Read more
The forests of Central America still house so discreet species that their lifestyle largely escapes human observation. Among them, a night -up hunter with a singular profile intrigues researchers by his unexpected social habits. Far from the isolated and disturbing image often associated with Carnivore bats, the Javelin bat, also known as Vampyrum Spectrum, reveals … Read more
[Un article de The Conversation écrit par Léa Tardieu – Chargée de recherche en économie de l’environnement, Inrae – Antoine Leblois – Chargé de recherches, économie de l”environnement et du développement, Inrae – Nicolas Mondolfo – Assistant de recherche, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay – Université Paris-Saclay – & Philippe Delacote – Directeur de recherche en économie à … Read more
For millions of years, the lands of Gondwana have been the scene of an unsuspected animal abundance, where Crocodilians and dinosaurs were competed in the first places in the food chain. Unlike conventional representations, some prehistoric crocodiles were not content to prowl in troubled water. In Patagonia, new fossils reveal the existence of a formidable … Read more
The links between our lifestyles and the balance of our immune system are constantly surprising medicine. Certain habits, however recognized as harmful, sometimes seem to produce unexpected effects on well identified diseases. This is the case of tobacco, whose differentiated impact on inflammatory intestine pathologies has intrigued researchers for decades. A recent advance finally sheds … Read more
The hypothesis of a high intensity conflict is no longer a pure military scenario. In an increasingly tense international context, states reassess their ability to collect a major shock, not only tactically, but also health. In France, this vigilance rise is reflected in an in -depth transformation of the armies health service, now redesigned to … Read more
Head and neck cancer, a pathology still little known Head and neck cancer may not tell you much, and yet it is among the most widespread. Indeed, according to the Bristol Myers Squibb sitehead and neck cancer, which are up to three times more numerous in men than in women, is the most common 6ᵉ … Read more
Often reduced to their warlike expeditions, the Vikings occupy a much more complex place in European history. Behind the raids and the drakkars hide major political, religious and cultural figures, often forgotten. Olaf Tryggvason, king of Norway at the hinge of the 10th century, embodies this decisive transition. Son of a murdered nobleman, kidnapped as … Read more
