Health

Smoking has increased over the past five years among young people aged 17 to 25 who use cigarettes as much as vapers, according to a survey released Tuesday.

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The Léger survey on behalf of the Quebec Student Sports Network (RSEQ) reveals that more than a quarter (26%) of young people surveyed say they smoke at least occasionally, compared to 28% for vapers.

A notable nuance appears in the perception of these two products, since three-quarters of young people consider cigarettes problematic, while this rate rises to 93% when it comes to vapers.

Some 70% of respondents admit that the smoking rate among young people their age has increased, according to the RSEQ study which has just launched its annual De Facto campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of smoking.

“The campaign aims to demonstrate the unacceptability of the activities of the tobacco industry and to change the prevailing social norm towards tobacco within society,” the organization said in a statement.

Before the kids and teenagers cheered on the violets in the stadium, they let off steam in front of the west stand with our action program: in the Austria bouncy castle, shooting at the goal wall, the Gaberl Challenge and face painting. Coveted selfie partners were Dominik Fitz & Georg Teigl, who also wrote autographs.

Many thanks to our partner Ströck for the support with 1,000 snack bags for the children, as well as to the HLTW 13 Bergheidengasse school for helping organize the purple class excursion.

Endometriosis is a inflammatory gynecological disease which leads to sharp pains, especially because the endometrium grows outside the uterine lining. To date, there is no treatment that can cure this pathology, which is also responsible for excessive bleeding during menstruation and infertility.

What solutions?

Currently, women withendometriosis can be relieved by different treatments: pill or hormonal IUD, pain medicationand when the pain is too strong and disabling, by a intervention chirurgicale consisting of removing endometriosis lesions that may be lodged in the vagina, rectum, ureters, etc.

A monthly injection treatment

Japanese scientists* have tested a treatment, for the time being on monkeys. The latter consisted of their inject subcutaneouslyonce a month, antibodies from genes involved in inflammation of the disease. This treatment made it possible to reduce inflammationthe size of lesionsTHE fibrous and the adhesions. Baptized AMY109, the research carried out by Nishimoto-Kakiuchi and his colleges must continue and be refined according to…

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