Health

A new case of COVID-19 in the La Tuque agglomeration

[ad_1] In its data of the day, the CIUSSS-MCQ announces a new case of COVID-19 in the agglomeration of La Tuque. The data now shows 22 people affected since the start of the pandemic, including two active cases. In Mauricie and Center-du-Québec, there are 82 new cases of the disease. …

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Team sports lower blood pressure for postmenopausal women

[ad_1] Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. According to a new study, team sports effectively counteract reduced vascular function in postmenopausal women with hypertension, even several years after the onset of menopause. The loss of estrogen associated with the transition …

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Training facial recognition on some new furry friends: bears

[ad_1] From 4,675 fully tagged bear faces on DSLR photographs, taken from bear research and observation sites in Brooks River, Alabama, and Knight Inlet, they randomly split the images into training and test datasets. Once trained by 3,740 bear faces, the deep learning went to work “unsupervised,” said Dr. Clapham, …

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Instead of coffee on the flu shot

[ad_1] Žana Nartnik was vaccinated against the flu for the first time this year and became seriously ill years ago during pregnancy. (Photo: Tomaž Skale) Despite waiting in front of the mobile unit of the Simulation Center, parked in front of the town hall, there was no crowd yesterday. Only …

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The “RNA messenger”, a new technique to attack Covid-19

[ad_1] A ray of hope in the pandemic. This is for now the effect produced by the announcement of a Covid-19 vaccine that would be “90% effective”, according to the laboratories that developed it. To achieve this, Pfizer from America and BioNTech from Germany relied on a new vaccination technique …

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