Agence Science-Presse In addition to the symptoms commonly associated with menstruation — cramps, bloating, headaches, fatigue — many women report increased hunger. Does the body truly have this extra need for energy, or should hormones be blamed? This is the question posed by the Organization […] See more
By Simon Van Vliet “To reduce the murder rate, sexual and conjugal violence as well as violence done to children, we have to first of all attack toxic masculinity,” argues Irwin Waller, criminology professor at the University of Ottawa and the founding Executive Director of […] See more
By Oumou Diakité Fati will soon be thirty, and she’s already spent half her life bleaching her skin. When we made this observation together, she lowered her head. She fidgeted with her fingers, shifted her right leg, which was bouncing on the legs of her […] See more
By The Social Eyes Team In Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a three-year-old child catches polio. An invisible virus strikes his legs. A bleak future seems certain. But that’s when Junior chose to go the opposite way, and move forward. “My medicine […] See more
By Oumou Diakité When Pénélope Boudreault thinks about where it all began, she laughs softly: “June 2006… that makes it 20 years that I’ve been working as a nurse. I had a backpack, I was walking on the street, I went to see people.” This […] See more
Alexia Boyer, Agence Science Presse Initially brought on the market to combat type 2 diabetes, for the last four years Ozempic has been widely used as a weight loss drug. Experts are now starting to see the negative effects of this unintended long-term usage. […] See more
By Colin McGregor The documentary film Adonis is a report on youth bodybuilding culture. Audaciously tackling the taboos that exist around masculine beauty, Adonis reveals the depths of the public health crisis at play. Jérémie Battaglia, the documentarist, is originally from France but makes his […] See more
Kathleen Couillard – Agence Science-Presse For several years now, blue light-blocking eyeglasses have been sold on the pretext that they protect the eyes from blue light coming off an electronic device like a computer screen or a cellphone. The problem, the Rumor Detector notes, is […] See more
By Catherine Crépeau – The Rumor Detector – Agence Science-Presse Over the last few years, commercial burgers made from “vegetable meat” have multiplied on store shelves. Their healthy aura and their environmentally friendly image have helped sell them. If the environmental impact of a reduction […] See more
By Lina Boyer While certain companies enrich themselves and governments play war, climate change continues to accellerate. And between droughts in Brazil, hurricanes in Haiti and the melting of continental glaciers, there is plenty to worry about. In 1996, Véronique Lapaige, a Belgian-Canadian public health […] See more
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