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The moment of the day where a treatment of chemotherapy or radiotherapy is managed can have an influence marked on the therapeutic efficiency of intervention, as well as on the size of the undesirable effects.

Of the researchers of almost everywhere in the world are interested more and more to her, a branch of pharmacology that takes in account the patient’s rhythms circadian (cycles veiled/Somme, jour/Inuit, active/repots). More specifically, the aromatherapies tries to determine to what moment of the day a specific treatment could have an optimal efficiency while minimizing his/her/its potential undesirable effects. Although her " chronoptimisation" of the treatments medical anticancer is not a new concept, she/it is besides some on the agenda since some months.

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Don’t be afraid of the mammography"  - Janette Bertrand, surviving of the breast cancer,

During the last years, so much Janette Bertrand that his/her/its daughter, Dominique Lajeunesse, surrendered with assiduity to the tests of tracking of the breast cancer. It is what allowed them to be treated quickly when they learned, to some weeks of interval, that they were all two attacks of a breast cancer. It was in 2006.

Janette Bertrand and Dominique Lajeunesse testified for the first time of their fight against the cancer, in the setting of the launching of the first campaign of financing of the research Group in cancer (GRSC), connected in the center of research of the academic hospitable Center of Montreal (CRCHUM).

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The honey could succeed where the antibiotics fail in the treatment of chronic sinusitises, believe Canadian researchers of the hospital of Ottawa.

At the time of in vitro tests, the researchers demonstrated that some honeys were not only effective against two bacteria resistant to the antibiotics, but in more that they could cross the biologic film that isolates them. This film is formed by a regrouping of micro-organisms, protecting the colony of bacteria against the action of the antibiotics.

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The fructose - a sugar that one recovers naturally in the fruit and in the honey. made a spectacular incursion in our food, the years since 1980. However, according to an American survey, the human body would tend to transform quickly in the fructose graisses1. More quickly, of the less, that another sugar: glucose.

The researchers recruited six volunteers, thin and in good health. To the kid lunch, they made them drink one of the three following sugary drinks: a drink either entirely composed of glucose; of containing either a glucose and the fructose in equal shares; to either a composed 25% of glucose and to 75% of fructose. At the hour of the noon, the participants had to swallow a snack prepared for them.

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Some Canadian researchers would have discovered how our brain reacts in season to the changes, provoking thus a seasonal depression at some people in fall and in winter.

According to the results, the activity of the enzymes assigned to eliminate the serotonin. the monoamine oxidase - is strongly increased when lowers the brightness, and decreased when light increases.

It is why the rates of cerebral serotonin - a hormone that plays a key role in the neurological functions - would vary according to the seasons, or more precisely according to the photoperiod (the relative length of day and the night).

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The school Mini Shrink of the academic institute in health mental Douglas, in Montreal, will offer, of October 29 to November 26, 2008, five new courses to the general public in order to demystify the mental illnesses.

These courses, that take the shape of conferences of one hour followed of one period of questions, are all given by clinicians or researchers specialized in mental health.

Under the theme The mental health of yesterday to tomorrow, the third edition of the school Mini Shrink will dive in the history of the psychiatry to approach the present stakes in mental health and to evoke the scientific breakthroughs that the future could reserve.

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