Does the Use of the Yeast Probiotic Actisaf Sc 47 Reduce the Environmental Impacts of Beef Cattle? A Study Based on Life Cycle Assessment.

Increasing animal protein, especially from beef, is necessary to satisfy the requirements of the growing global population. However, this is becoming increasingly challenging due to stakeholders prioritizing sustainable systems with low environmental impacts. To answer these challenges, the use of feed additives such as yeast probiotics seems to be an effective route for improvements in feed efficiency and growth performance.

[Let’s move our health! The experience of 40 physical activity motivational workshops].

Aims: To set up physical activity promotion workshops in health centres to help people with a sedentary lifestyle achieve an adequate level of physical activity. Methods: This health programme, called ‘Bougeons Notre Santé’ (Let’s move our health) has been implemented since 2006 by four health centres in the Pays de la Loire region, in France. This article describes implementation of the programme, its feasibility, how it can be integrated into a global preventive approach and its outcomes on promoting more physical activity.

Central skull base osteomyelitis: a rare but life-threatening disease.

We present the case of a 70-year-old non-diabetic patient who presented to the emergency department with unrelenting otalgia. A severe otitis externa (OE) and mastoiditis were treated with broad spectrum antibiotics and surgical drainage. No bacteria was isolated from surgical samples.

[How are palliative care needs estimated in short-stay establishments? Apropos of an experience in Côte d'Or].

The evaluation of needs and means concerning the care of patients in palliative treatment is among the problems seen as priority by the High Committee for Public Health. We have thus tried to characterise, in a specific health sector, the patients receiving palliative care in short-stay establishments in order to evaluate their care needs. We carried out an exhaustive descriptive survey among all public and private short-stay establishments in the Côte d'Or region.

[What alternatives to rectal temperature recording with a mercury thermometer?].

Fever is a major symptom to characterize individual health status. Measurement of temperature is systematically made in everyday medical practice. In France, this measurement is generally assumed with a rectal glass mercury thermometer.