Atmospheric drying as the main driver of dramatic glacier wastage in the southern Indian Ocean.

The ongoing retreat of glaciers at southern sub-polar latitudes is particularly rapid and widespread. Akin to northern sub-polar latitudes, this retreat is generally assumed to be linked to warming. However, no long-term and well-constrained glacier modeling has ever been performed to confirm this hypothesis.

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Ehlers-Danlos disease had a paradoxical fate. Clinically identified 123 years ago, it is unknown to nearly all present doctors. Often described for its dramatic aspects, diagnostic confusion with fibromyalgia in particular, ignorance of effective treatments such as oxygen therapy and orthotics are new concepts that should shake the prejudices derived from the history of this disease.

[What are the epidemiological data on smoking and co-addictions during pregnancy?].

The goal of this publication is to attempt to better understand how we arrived at this medical catastrophe: 28% of the French women who smoke during the pregnancy! And that does not take into account other addictions (alcohol, drugs legal or illegal) whose figures are poorly specified. From the American epidemiologic data, the United States being ahead of us in the stage of the epidemic, and European data, can one extract the favoring factors and effective measurements to stop this epidemic? What is the epidemiology of the other addictions and is there any relationship between the consumption of tobacco and other drugs? According to the world statistical data, less than 50% of pregnant women manage to stop smoking. In the United States, 44.

[Sampling of chorionic villi during the first trimester of pregnancy].

On the basis of the literature, as well as their own experience, the authors attempt to identify the advantages of sampling of chorionic villi over early amniocentesis in the diagnosis of diseases of the ovum.