Author: Maria Gill

To deal with The increase in the number of cases of Covid-19 virus, Maine County continues screening and prevention operations. Find out where and how to take the exam during the week of Monday, April 11 to Saturday, April 16, 2022. Antigen tests with anti-Covid mediators Monday 11 April : 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Conviviality Room at Ernée and Saint-Berthevin, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Bernard Le Godais sports area Tuesday 12 April : In the front yard of the Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne village hall from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday 13th April : from 11…

This is particularly the case with the polio vaccine. In 1955, Professor Jonas Syke developed a vaccine against the disease at the University of Pittsburgh. But 100 children die and more than 200 are paralyzed after receiving the first dose of the vaccine. Then it was discovered the presence of a carcinogenic virus in the monkey cells used in preparing the vaccine. Dr. Leon Farrell, Canadian biochemist and microbiologist.To solve this manufacturing problem, Canada has managed to innovate. It was notable at the Connaught Laboratories in Toronto that a new polio vaccine was born in 1953. Thanks to the work…

primary Researchers have developed a wearable device that plays specific sounds to improve deep sleep. According to the first clinical study, the tool will be effective … but not for everyone. With age, sleep quality tends to decline and “deep sleep” is disturbed. Somehow the opposite of “sleep like a baby”! To improve this specific phase of sleep known (in medical terms) as “Sleep without REM sleep,” Swiss researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) conducted a clinical trial to test a new device. It’s a portable device called a “SleepLoop”, designed to emit sounds in…

Bernard Lynch has until recently been a member of the September Port Board of Directors since 2019, while Nancy Jordan has been since 2017. Mr. Lynch explains taking on his new responsibilities at business continuity context. ” In the short term, the urgent matter is Mgr-Blanche pavement repair. »- Quote from Bernard Lynch, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Port of September Bernard Lynch succeeds the new September Port Chairman, Carol Susey (Archives).Photo: Radio CanadaIt’s a big project because the Mgr-Blanche pier is in a state of complete collapse. It’s a pavement made on wooden piles and it…

notIts soon between two rounds of this presidential election. There are topics that many candidates avoid or are not interested in when they are important to the future of our country such as culture, climate change or science. We are entitled to ask about the cause-and-effect relationship of this observation: are the French not worried, or are the candidates and the media directing the discussions? Regardless, this must change, with the risk of losing essential issues, such as the role of science, which should inform the vast majority of this campaign’s themes.Science is broken, exhausted, and upset. It’s unreliable, it…

Air Transat resumes service in the French provinces, with the return of direct flights to Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes and Toulouse. So travelers will be able to take advantage of a non-stop service between Montreal and the French provinces, starting in May. In addition, the air carrier announced that it is also returning connections to Paris from Quebec and Toronto. This extended program for the French provinces comes, of course, in addition to the regular service for Paris. The daily service currently offered from Montreal will be ramped up from May to 14 flights per week, the company said in…

For biologist Rachel Carson (1907-1964), this book was primarily an indictment of the destructive power of pesticides on birds: the title “Silence” Back to To a world where songbirds have disappeared. But the destructive potential of pollution, beyond pesticides and beyond birds – on ecosystems in general – has been a wake-up call. which had immediate political repercussions. We owe him the ban of the pesticide DDT in the United States in 1972, and the first steps toward legalization: The US Environmental Protection Agency, and in Quebec, Bureau d’audiences sur l’environnement, was born in the 1970s. And we’d start from…

The Rousseau case continues to haunt Air Canada. The Commissioner of Official Languages ​​blames the carrier for the events of last November and determines that 2,680 complaints were established in an initial report consulted by Le Journal. • Read also: Air Canada plans to double its capacity • Read also: Michael Russo apologizes in French don’t fly high • Read also: Federal companies subject to Bill 101: Michael Rousseau will have to work in French In a 17-page document sent to the complainants and to Air Canada, Raymond Tyberg wrote that the company did not respect the law during a…

What do the nights of the monsters look like? Can they sleep peacefully? A documentary film examines these questions. Continuing under this ad Recharging batteries in nature is essential for surviving, escaping from predators, and finding food. And that’s no matter what species, bee, macaque or sea lion. How do animals not abandon their vigilance, not forgetting to return to the surface when they need to breathe? How is their sleep? Aarti documentary, aired on Saturday 9th April at 11:50 PM, Animals sleep a riddle for scienceprovides some answers.Orangutans, bed heroesThese great apes have sleep cycles very similar to those…

More than two dozen student cooperatives are suing their insurance company, The Co-Operators, which is refusing to compensate them for the financial losses caused by their March 2020 closure, which the Quebec government ordered at the start of the pandemic. Posted at 9:00 am Nathael Morissette Journalism They assert that their policy includes protection against loss of income related specifically to the cessation of activities declared “by civil authorities” or after an “outbreak of an infectious disease”. These student co-operatives, which sell books, computers, and other school supplies, aren’t the only ones spearheading this fight. Many companies insured for “operating…