The origin and course of eating disorders and nutrition have a multifactorial etiology and should therefore take into consideration: psychological factors, evolutionary, biological and socio-cultural (Juli 2012). Among the psychological factors we will focus on violence (in any form) and in particular on the consequences that they have on women, which vary in severity. Recent studies show that ...

Late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent cause of dementia among older adults, yet more than a century of research has not determined why this disease develops. One prevailing hypothesis is that late-onset AD is caused by infectious pathogens, an idea widely studied in both humans and experimental animal models. This review examines the infectious AD etiology hypothesis and sum...

Since the early days of human life on the Earth, our skin has been exposed to different levels of light. Recently, due to inevitable consequences of modern life, humans are not exposed to adequate levels of natural light during the day but they are overexposed to relatively high levels of artificial light at night. Skin is a major target of oxidative stress and the link between aging and oxidat...

DEPUIS LA MISE EN VENTE DE LA TERFÉNADINE, antihistaminique non sédatif, il y a plus de 20 ans, des rapports sur des cas d’arythmie cardiaque et de mort subite associée à son utilisation ont entraîné son retrait du marché dans certains pays. Néanmoins, la terfénadine est toujours en vente au Canada. Les avantages qu’offre ce médicament pour contrôler les symptômes de la fièvre des foins ne l’em...

In the past two centuries, despite — or is it because of ? —economic growth and technological change, life threatening risks have one by one been reduced or eliminated in the world’s richer nations (Goklany 2007). The 20th century saw the United States’ population multiply by four, income by seven, carbon dioxide emissions by nine, material use by 27, and chemical use by more than 100. Yet peop...