A sedentary lifestyle increases fear of falls and feelings of dizziness in nonagenarians

2023-12-15 11:00:19 Ten thousand steps and more. Promote more active lifestyles from birth to nursing homes. This is the shocking formula of the sports public policy expert Régis Juanico, in his book-manifesto Let’s move ! (L’Aube-Fondation Jean Jaurès, 146 pages, 16 euros), where this former deputy makes concrete proposals to (re) put all French people … Read more

Celebrating Courage: Nasrin Sotoudeh, Rahile Dawut, & Olivier Vandecasteele

2023-12-14 17:43:00 Iranian lawyer and human rights defender, including women’s rights, Nasrin Sotoudeh has been convicted several times since 2010, and is currently imprisoned. Rahile Dawut, a Chinese ethnologist and expert on the Uighur minority, was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Chinese authorities. “Imprisoned for their convictions, their freedom of expression and their academic … Read more

The double punishment of employees suffering from chronic illness

2023-12-14 05:00:07 Office notebook. Cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, asthma, HIV, depression… Chronic diseases, constantly increasing, will affect 25% of the working population in 2025, compared to 15% in 2019, according to the National Agency for the Improvement of Conditions of work (Anact). These are situations that managers cannot consider as a parenthesis in the lives … Read more

Midwives authorized to perform instrumental abortion in a hospital environment

2023-12-14 05:00:39 A room at the instrumental abortion experimentation center, at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, in Paris, December 12, 2023. EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP The development was expected, but the context in which it has just been made official gives it particular relief: in the wake of the presentation, in the Council of Ministers, Tuesday, December 12, of … Read more

the preliminary bill arouses the “anger” of the collective of caregivers opposed to active assistance in dying

2023-12-14 14:10:14 A barrage intended to be a deterrent. While the executive plans to present a bill on the end of life “during February”a provisional version of the text arouses ” anger “ of caregivers hostile to active assistance in dying, in a press release published Thursday, December 14. They are reacting to a first … Read more

the actors of the “start of the war in Pissevin” in court

2023-12-14 18:54:48 This was before the Pissevin city, in Nîmes, hit the headlines with the death, in August 2023, of Fayed, a 10-year-old child, killed in his uncle’s car which was mistakenly targeted by drug traffickers’ gunfire. . Collateral victim of a drug turf war whose first chapter, that of 2020, is being judged by … Read more

the Ministry of Health is putting a twist on the alcohol-free month

2023-12-13 16:50:08 It is not yet this year, it seems, that the government will give its official support to the “January Challenge”, this month ” alcohol-free “ supported by prevention associations. The debate reignited with the questioning of the Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, by around fifty academics and teachers of addiction. In a letter … Read more

The Role of the Belgian National Railway in World War II Deportations: Uncovering History

2023-12-12 10:15:08 SS men taking the train from Dresden, Germany, to Belgium during World War II. ALAMY STOCK PHOTO From August 1942, the Belgian National Railway Company (SNCB) received money paid by the Nazi regime to transport 25,490 Jews as well as 353 Roma and Gypsies to the extermination camps, including 1,195 only survived. The … Read more