Discovery Science and techniques
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2022
A no-holds-barred magazine programme looking at health and preventive care. Because everyone can influence their health and wellness by adopting the right behaviour and taking care of their bodies, Prudence Maïdou is joined by health professionals to help us learn more about these important issues.
Discovery | Science and techniques
Episode 26
27 min
Gastric ulcers
A focus on gastric ulcers, a painful sore affecting the stomach lining. Then, in Cameroon, we visit an association of parents whose children suffer from cerebral palsy. Finally, Mrs Gbato warns about the difficulties the disabled face in trying to access sexual and reproductive health services.
Episode 25
27 min
Food allergies
A focus on food allergies and how to live with them. Then we turn to the subject of hearing loss and its consequences. And, to end, we discuss the possible complications of childhood circumcision.
Episode 24
26 min
Jaundice
Focus on jaundice and the diseases that may lie behind it. Then the NGO WildAid teaches us how to prevent the transmission of diseases linked to eating bush meat. Finally, we welcome Aline, a non-governmental organisation fighting for the treatment of children with cancer.
Episode 23
28 min
Living with a prosthesis
In today's programme our guests recount their everyday lives with a prosthesis. We also discover the professional life of geriatrician. And, to end, we talk about teenage pregnancies and the associated health risks to both mother and child.
Episode 22
27 min
Eczema
A focus on eczema to discover more about this skin disease and its many causes. Then Bonaté Khady Cissé talks to us about menstrual hygiene. Finally, we try to understand more about early menopause and the different solutions to provide relief.
A no-holds-barred magazine programme looking at health and preventive care. Because everyone can influence their health and wellness by adopting the right behaviour and taking care of their bodies, Prudence Maïdou is joined by health professionals to help us learn more about these important issues.
Tim Doucette is blind. He is also an astronomer, an enthusiastic amateur who as an adult, discovered that he had extraordinary night vision. A situation that encouraged him to open his own observatory in Nova-Scotia, and to visit Mauna Kea, and the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope. We look back at his story.
An inventive "bonesetter", a grandmother blowing gently to relieve pain, two healers using their four hands to treat patients, a doctor who combines chemistry and "secret"... Practitioners who all share a special connection with nature. Why, given the advances of modern medicine, do some still prefer to call on healers?
Five senior citizens aged between 65 and 76 took part in an eighteen-month course of intense mental training, measured as part of a scientific study to assess the effects of meditation on aging. We look at their personal and emotional journey, as they take on the challenge of aging well.
The speed with which the first Covid-19 vaccine was created is a veritable prowess, made possible by messenger RNA technology. We delve into this little known therapy, result of decades of research, explained by the scientists who worked tirelessly for its development.
And what if you left the reality of being human behind to explore the world as if you were an animal or plant. A well-known figure from Romandy takes up the challenge of discovering what it is like to be a totally different species, feeling and living as they do.
Since 1923, the Association Francophone Pour le Savoir (Acfas) played a discreet but essential role in accompanying Quebec society throughout its scientific and social revolutions. In ten chapters and as many decades, we discover the major advances that left an indelible mark on science in Quebec.
