When Quebec City residents go to the polls Monday to select a replacement for Liberal MLA Roch Cholette, health care will be the focus of voters.

Six candidates are running on the byelection. Cholette's policy advisor and communications director, Maryse Gaudreault, is running under the Liberal party. Her strongest rival is Dr. Gilles Aube, from Parti Quebecois and a doctor.

The French Cabinet is mulling making breathalyzer tests mandatory for people leaving bars and nightclubs across the country in order to prevent alcohol-related accidents.

The proposed decree came on the heels of a fatal Pentecostal holiday weekend on French roads, with at least 17 fatalities reported in seven accidents. In one, four people aged between 15 and 26 were killed when the car in which they were riding went off the road near Forbach, in eastern France.

People with short arms and legs have a greater risk of developing dementia, according to a report recently published in Neurology.

Tina Huang, PhD, leader of the research team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, said in a news release that their findings were consistent with other research done on the Koreans. The shorter the length of the limb, the greater the risk of dementia.

The Food and Drug Administration warned the medical community on Friday regarding heparin after learning that some of the facilities still had supplies of the contaminated blood thinner.

A large number of hospitals, medical societies and pharmaceutical organizations were warned despite a recall by the California Department of Health and the FDA's own recall monitoring. Baxter International Inc., the largest supplier of heparin, also showed gaps in the recall response.

The value of bed rest on human health will be the subject of a four-month study by NASA scientists at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.

Participants will stay in a special research unit for the duration of the study and eat a controlled diet.