Month: April 2020

Le terme “balance bénéfices-risques“ est souvent employé lors d’un choix diagnostique, thérapeutique ou préventif. Dans son numéro de mai 2014, la revue Prescrire souligne l’importance de bien comprendre cette notion pour optimiser les actes médicaux et pharmaceutiques. Ce concept est illustré par plusieurs articles concernant l’usage de certains médicaments dans des situations précises. Le choix […]

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L’Académie européenne du cinéma a rendu son verdict ce samedi à Berlin: “Melancholia” de Lars von Trier et “Le Discours d’un roi” de Tom Hooper sont ex-aequo avec trois récompenses chacun. La cérémonie des European Film Awards (Prix du cinéma européen), qui s’est tenue ce samedi à Berlin, a cette année couronné le cinéma danois […]

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Nicholas Latifi says Williams has warned its drivers to remain respectful when racing online and avoid the controversies that recently befell two NASCAR racers. Both Latifi and teammate George Russell are regular participants in F1’s official Virtual Grand Prix Series and in other Esports events which are proving extremely popular with both drivers and race […]

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OTTAWA — The Conservatives’ bid to have Parliament sit in person several times a week throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has been thwarted by the combined forces of the governing Liberals and other opposition parties. A government motion calling for once-a-week in-person sittings, to be supplemented eventually by virtual sittings, was passed Monday by a vote of […]

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Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer won’t discuss a Tory backbencher’s broadsides against Dr. Theresa Tam, which have been blasted as “race-baiting,” because that member of Parliament is a leadership candidate. Scheer had some chippy exchanges with reporters in Ottawa Thursday when pressed about an email and video released this week from Ontario MP Derek Sloan, one […]

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REGINA — Dentist offices, hairdressers, golf courses and retail stores could be allowed to reopen starting in May under Saskatchewan’s plan to refire parts of its economy during the COVID-19 crisis. The five-phase plan presented Thursday includes timelines for when businesses and services shuttered to protect against the spread of the novel coronavirus might be […]

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PARKLAND, FL — Eighteen-year-old Victoria Gonzalez observed Thursday’s moment of silence at precisely 10:17 a.m. hugging friends outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and tending the memorial garden she started on Christmas Eve to honor the memory of the 17 victims of the Parkland tragedy, including her boyfriend, Joaquin Oliver. “My best friend was killed,” […]

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