The amount of blood lost during menstruation varies among women. However, menstruation can be considered – and experienced – as too heavy: this is called menorrhagia. Are you concerned? What are the causes of these significant flows? And what can be done to fix it? “The periods are considered abundant if the duration exceeds 7 … Read more
the essential A decree published on April 25, 2023 suspends the use of hot water in washbasins in the workplace. A measure that is part of the objectives to be achieved in terms of energy sobriety. Did you used to wash your hands with lukewarm or even hot water in your company’s washrooms? This is … Read more
A lecturer in microbiology warns of the need to clean her mobile phone regularly. Many of us come with our smartphones even in the toilet (46% of French people according to a study conducted for AXA Prevention in 2019). According to microbiologist Primrose Freestone from the University of Leicester in England, it would be more … Read more
the essential Super U recalls smoked garlic sausage sold on its shelves due to suspicion of the presence of Listeria. Did you recently buy smoked garlic sausage at Super U? Do not consume it! It is the subject of a recall from the retailer. This sausage has traces of Listeria monocytogenes, the agent responsible for … Read more
the essential In the absence of treatment for NASH, more commonly known as fatty liver disease, researchers are mobilizing. A Toulouse team recently identified new bacteria present in the liver at the start of the disease. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NASH) concerns, in its severe form, more than 200,000 people in France, mainly patients with … Read more
the essential Coffee, according to a recent British study, would reduce liver fibrosis thanks to high levels of kawhéol and cafestol. But what is it really? Just because the liver is an organ that regenerates doesn’t mean it should be neglected! Especially since a deteriorated liver will not give any clinical sign. First rule, therefore, … Read more
the essential Very frequent, chronic liver diseases have multiple causes and are the cause of 17,000 deaths each year in France. Screening, care, prevention: we take stock. Professor Jean-Marie Péron, head of the hepatology department at the Rangueil hospital of the Toulouse University Hospital (University Hospital Center) is also the coordinating physician of the COHEP … Read more
It was in the presence of Jean Doussain, mayor of Sainte-Croix-Volvestre, members of the board of directors and motivated members, that the last general meeting of the intercommunal rural center was held. After three tense years due to the health crisis, the presentation of activity and moral reports highlighted the effort of volunteers and members, … Read more
the essential This Tuesday, May 9, 6th graders received training in first aid organized by Groupama with the departmental union of firefighters. In Montauban, young college students from the Family Institute practice first aid. As part of the “saving gestures” operation organized by Groupama, 6th graders are training. “It is in 6th grade that children … Read more
The sub-prefect of Condom, Véronique Moreau welcomed the mayor Jean-François Rousse and the president of the Festival de bandas to renew with the cafe owners and the managers of the stands the signature of the Label fêtes which commits them for this new edition. This charter organizes prevention before and during the festive event. After … Read more