Here are our five news from this Thursday, March 18 to keep morale up, despite the Covid-19 epidemic and the curfew.
1. Sport by prescription extended to chronic diseases
The deputies extended to chronic diseases the pathologies which can be the subject of a sports prescription, as has existed since 2016, as part of the vote on the LREM bill on sport.
Since 2016, people who suffer from a long-lasting disease (ALD) can benefit from a prescription prescribing sports, which represents about 10 million people, and about thirty pathologies (disabling stroke, type 1 diabetes and 2, multiple sclerosis…).
Currently, they are also among the exceptions, as well as high-level athletes and sports students, to be able to practice and access the equipment when they are open and accessible.
2. A baby is born with antibodies to COVID-19
A woman in South Florida who received the COVID-19 vaccine has given birth to a baby with antibodies to the coronavirus, doctors have said.
According to them, this is the first known case of such a phenomenon. The woman, a healthcare worker, received her first dose of Moderna’s vaccine when she was 36 weeks pregnant, reports ABC 25 WPBF News.
3. Sixty-three actions to help farmers in distress
“They want to break a taboo that hits our countryside. ” On March 17, the senators of the transpartisan working group on “farmers in distress” reported on their report, adopted by the Committee on Economic Affairs.
Henri Cabanel (RDSE, senator from the Héraut) and Françoise Férat (Centrist Union, Marne) drew up the conclusions of a year of work, launched following the first parliamentary debate organized on this tragedy which particularly affects the agricultural world. In 2019, the Mutualité sociale agricole (MSA) recorded two suicides of farmers per day in France.
“This omerta is breaking”slowly because “Agriculture is a silent world, emphasizes Françoise Férat. There was immense distress, especially regarding income and agribashing. “
4. A Grenoble start-up creates an endorphin stimulator bracelet against chronic pain
The start-up Remede Labs has imagined a mini endorphin stimulator using millimeter waves to reduce chronic pain.
Used in the form of a bracelet, this device would notably provide relief for people suffering from fibromyalgia. Clinical trials must test the effectiveness of the device.
5. France will restore a painting by Klimt resulting from a spoliation in 1938
France will return to a Jewish family a painting by Gustav Klimt which it had been despoiled in 1938 in Austria, the Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot announced on Monday March 15.
Roses under the trees of the Austrian painter will be returned to the family of Nora Stiasny, a victim of the Holocaust, who had been dispossessed during a forced sale in August 1938.
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