Tag: Science and Health
How to sleep well? “The main thing is to get up at the same time every day”
L’Express: Public Health France surveys show that since the Covid, the proportion of French who complain about their sleep kept increasing. Why has the epidemic degraded our nights so permanently?…
Sleeping pills, help or danger to health?
Sleep is often considered sacred. And yet, sleep disorders affect many people. About 40% of the general population complains of temporary insomnia symptoms and between 10 and 20% suffer from…
Satellite Swot: how it will revolutionize our knowledge of water on Earth
What are the stocks of fresh water on Earth? How can we optimize maritime transport and fishing, better develop the coasts and better understand the influence of the oceans and…
Covid-19: will the peak of the ninth wave be crossed before Christmas?
The peak of the ninth wave could be reached before Christmas. The third, already, in Covid times. While the contamination curve has continued to point upwards for the past three…
What are these “nanomaterials” found in 20 everyday products?
Twenty-three products tested and nanomaterials detected in twenty of them. The Avicenn association published, this Thursday, December 15, its nano investigation report in everyday products. The tests revealed the presence…
Sleep: when the quality of our nights becomes a political issue
“Let’s wake up to the importance of sleep”, recently headlined the prestigious scientific magazine The Lancet. Humans devote a third of their life to sleep, but this activity is barely…
“It’s going to be a tsunami of prescriptions”: French people invent the anti-insomnia pill
It hasn’t happened for more than thirty years. For the first time since the invention of benzodiazepines and z-drugs (stilnox…), a new family of sleeping pills is about to hit…
Snow, ice… Why we are not all equal in the face of the cold
All-out battle this Wednesday morning in Ile-de-France, in the Meuse, the Vosges or even the Haut-Rhin. Météo France has placed 18 departments on orange alert due to the snowfall and…
Sleep: what science says – Le dossier de L’Express
Where did our restful nights go? According to the Coviprev barometer published by Public Health France, 71% of French people complain of sleeping poorly, ten points more than in 2020.…
How to overcome insomnia? The only effective method (and validated by science)
A badly heated room, the walls covered with cupboards overflowing with medical files. Here is Simon, a young computer scientist with disturbed sleep since the Covid. Anita and Yolande, two…