GERD & Knee Pain

Six weeks of event, 70 artists from around the world, 45,000 visitors. For its sixth edition, the event has not deviated from its principles. s of July 14 Quai de la Fosse and 13 August at the castle of the dukes. This year, the novelty was held in the Jardin des Plantes. And the garden has hosted another highlight…

Traditionally, music has occupied a prominent place. From Paris as often successful delivery of the Argentinean Raul Barboza castle or of the Bester Quartet at Square du Maquis Saffre, who met each time more than 1,000 curious, which some regulars. But next year, the work planned in the square will deprive viewers of this place green. Find another scene, this will be an additional way to renew itself while maintaining the goal of irrigating crop throughout Nantes. Read the rest of this entry »

Great medical first in France. A team of surgeons at the Hospital Pitie Salpetriere, has managed to destroy tumors with brain metastases laser and MRI. With this innovative technique, patients remain conscious, do not feel anything during the transaction and do not suffer any complication after surgery. This technique raises great hopes…

Is a world first and foremost a huge hope for many patients. A team of neurosurgeons, radiologists and anesthetists at the hospital in the Pitie-Salpetriere-(Paris) revealed Friday that they have managed to destroy tumors laser brain metastases in patients remains conscious. This is explained by the daily Le Monde in its edition of Saturday, after the publication of an article in the journal American Neurochirurgy. The patients treated were all suffering from various cancers (including breast and lung) and suffered from metastases: malignant tumor cells that migrate through the blood to their brains. Among those supported by the team of Professor Alexandre Carpentier, these metastases were resistant to all forms of treatment and life expectancy of patients did not exceed three months. Read the rest of this entry »

Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) had declared the level of pandemic 6. The latest toll released Monday by the WHO, 35,928 cases were confirmed in 75 countries, including 163 deaths. A thousand new cases are detected each day. The disease appeared last April in Mexico and the United States. Since the five continents have been affected…

Other suspected cases were reported in South Africa, Benin and Seychelles. This is for most of them from travelers returning from Canada or the United States. So far, no deaths to deplore on the continent. But if the epidemic seems to be under control in developed countries, like France, where the alert level was not increased, uncertainty about the ability of Africa to fight against the H1N1 remain. Read the rest of this entry »

WHO divided by ten the threshold recommended for radon. This major revision of the current threshold of what we are alert, especially when Ineris indicates that between 1200 and 2900 deaths from lung cancer worldwide each year resulting from exposure to domestic gas…

Based on the results of epidemiological and experimental studies, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classifies radon as a lung carcinogen in humans certain. The National Toxicology Program of the United States has done the same.

In his new paper published last Tuesday, the WHO, World Health Organization recommends a baseline of 100 Becquerel per cubic meter (Bq/m3) present in indoor air farms, cons Bq/m3 fixed until 1000 ‘to this. This threshold could reduce the risk of lung cancer. 3-14% of cases of such cancers are indeed caused, by country, this rare gas, odorless, colorless and chemically inert. Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking. Read the rest of this entry »

State, but the court has placed its verdict under advisement, said his lawyer…

It is indeed the primary cause of mortality in children. It kills 1.8 million small under 5 years every year worldwide, of which 98% are concentrated in 68 developing countries – and 19,500 in Europe. Read the rest of this entry »

This essentially tells us the latest report on the health of Quebecers in the region of the Capitale-Nationale released this morning by the public health director, Dr. Francis Desbiens…

On demographic trends, the national capital is home to 70,000 people than in 1986, but shows a population growth rate below that of Quebec and most other major Canadian regions. The Charlevoix region shows a decline (-0.9) while the area of the Jacques-Cartier experiencing a sharp population (7.2%).

Overall, the region’s population is aging faster than the rest of Quebec. Young people 0-14 years represent only 14% of the population, the lowest proportion compared to other major Canadian regions. The number of single parent families is increasing. 17% in 1986, they rose in 2001 to 22% with a predominance in the Basse-Ville-Vanier Limoilou or 43% of families are single parents. Read the rest of this entry »

Breast cancer affects more and more poor countries, where mortality is high due to prevention and access to treatment insufficient, health experts said Monday at the American eve of a conference on the subject…

We used to think that breast cancer was confined to women in rich countries, but we now know that this disease also affects those in developing countries, explains Felicia Knaul, specialist in public health from the University Harvard (Massachusetts, north-east).

This phenomenon is explained by the decline of infectious diseases, malnutrition and longer life expectancy in developing countries. Approximately 1.35 million cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed worldwide in 2009, accounting for 10.5% of all new cancers, second only to that of the lung, according to figures from the School of Public Health the University of Harvard. Read the rest of this entry »