the essential The Château de la Briqueterie, a magnificent building located on the left bank of the Lot in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, has been transformed into a residence for the elderly. The first “tenant” has just moved into one of the eight apartments. The realization of a project imagined by Sarah, a Villeneuvoise in full retraining. It … Read more
the essential The inauguration of the user area of the Gimont hospital center took place recently. The opportunity to meet Jean-Claude Thieule, the new director. Can you introduce yourself and tell us about your background? After a first part of my career as a caregiver, I was indeed a nurse-anesthetist at the University Hospital of … Read more
(AFP) – Hormonal treatment, or advice for surgery: before starting their transition, many transgender people come up against the lack of doctors able to help them. But university training, followed this year by around thirty caregivers, intends to help remedy this. Entitled “Accompaniment, care and health of trans people”, this course is validated by an … Read more
(ETX Daily Up) – Transforming consumers into virtual models for an ever more inclusive and personalized online shopping experience: this is the project of three French students who have just won the L’Oréal Brandstorm global innovation competition. At stake ? A new technique combining augmented reality and deepfake that places users at the center of … Read more
Mosquitoes are not only unpleasant, but they are also vectors of diseases such as malaria, dengue or chikungunya. An Israeli team thinks it has found a formidable repellent against these insects: cellulose nanocrystals. Bite an infected person or animal; ingest the parasites, viruses or bacteria contained in his blood; transmit the pathogen to a healthy … Read more
According to Météo France, the country is not done with stormy episodes. With the risks that entails. How do you avoid being hit by lightning? How to react in the event of an accident? Here are the answers. “A typical lightning represents approximately 300 million volts“, explains the United States Meteorological Service. When it strikes, … Read more
(AFP) – Under the plane trees, the residents of the retirement home wait to board the bus: in Simorre, a Gers village in the heart of a dental desert, it is in this vehicle imagined by the local Red Cross that you have to take a seat to take care of your teeth. The passenger … Read more
(AFP) – Finding the right words to evoke imminent death, relieving suffering with simple gestures: “Last aid” training courses give keys to supporting a loved one at the end of life, a public utility approach for the organizers. On a sunny Friday, a dozen participants gathered in Lambersart (North) to train, for six hours, in … Read more
(AFP) – Far from being a gadget, artificial intelligence can change the lives of people with disabilities, who are more independent thanks to advances in image recognition, or even capable of partially recovering a lost faculty such as speech or walking. At the end of May, a paraplegic person, affected in the cervical vertebrae, was … Read more
And it is particularly among those under 50 that the risk is greatest, points out a new study. Researchers at the University of Richmond in the United States confirm a link between sleeping too much, not enough, naps exceeding an hour… And the risk of suffering a stroke. Their findings were published in the journal … Read more