Une pilule va peut-être révolutionner la vie des femmes... En effet, elle est contraceptive, comme les autres, mais elle supprime aussi les règles... Cette invention vient de recevoir son autorisation de commercialisation aux Etats-Unis, mais ce "médicament" soulève néanmoins de nombreuses questions, comme les risques de grossesse non-détectée. Témoignages et micro-trottoir de femmes américaines, et analyse de Catherine Vanier (psychanalyste).
Une innovation technique qui pourrait peut-être révolutionner la vie de beaucoup de femmes, la "culotte anti-règles douloureuses"... Explications de Dominique Picard (directeur de "P3 Innovation", inventeur de Fibranova) et d'Olivier Gerin (médecin).
A Lyon, le personnel des transports en commun est réquisitionné pour faire respecter le port du masque par les usagers, peu nombreux pour l'instant. Interview de Pascal Jacquesson, directeur général de Kéolis, microtrottoir de passagères qui commentent cette mesure inédite et interview d'un chauffeur de bus.
Hair loss affects both men and women. At the Besançon hospital, a study is being planned to combat female alopecia. Report at the Besançon hospital with interviews with Professor Philippe HUMBERT, head of the dermatology department at the University Hospital of Besançon and Thomas LIHOREAU, an engineer of studies and clinical research.
Interviewed, two women who lost all their hair, say what they felt at that time. One of them explains: "...it’s very difficult to stay, to still feel like a woman, to be worth something, when all her hair has fallen off".
Interviewed, Emmanuel Delaporte, dermatologist at the CHRU in Lille, explains what alopecia is and how it translates in women. He discusses two types of alopecia, androgenetics and telogenic effluvium.
Interviewed about a possible trauma related to hair loss, Dr Pascal REYGAGNE, director of the Sabouraud centre at Saint-Louis Hospital, explains: "...it is a trauma that depends a little on the age at which you are affected (...) it is necessary to be able to accompany psychologically at the same time that a treatment is started...". He then explains what alopecia areata is, a disease, unlike age-related baldness.
In 1979, Valérie Valère, a 16-year-old writer, testifies to the violence of her hospitalization for anorexia at the age of 13 described in her book "Le pavillon des enfants fous". She considers her illness to be a call to others unlike suicide.
Delphine, a young anorexic girl fed by tube, is taken in charge in a department specialized in teen medicine at the hospital of Kremlin Bicêtre. She expresses her fear of swallowing calories and her desire to get better. Interview with a nurse.
Chauchard’s testimony on the anorexia of her 17-year-old daughter Sabine, who has been ill for five years. She looks back on the onset of the disease, the diagnosis and the life of her daughter marked by hospital stays.
Report at the Charles Nicolle hospital in Rouen. Adolescent girls with anorexia and bulimia problems attend a workshop after hospitalization to improve their image of themselves. This day hospitalization, supervised by teams of caregivers, is intended to help them in their return to normal life. Testimony of Lucie, first-year student, and interview of Priscille Gérardin, in charge of child psychiatry at the Rouen CHU.
Marthe GAUTIER, 93, a pediatric cardiology specialist, discusses the discovery of the additional chromosome of Down syndrome. When the discovery of Down’s syndrome was published in 1959, his name came in second after that of Jérôme Lejeune, who dispossessed him. Her role was recognized late and in 2018 she was awarded the Commander’s Medal.
[Source: France 3 prompter] Will the chlordecone scandal be the subject of a prescription? This is what the prosecutor of Paris, Rémi HEITZ, implied in an interview... Enough to make react the civil parties launched in a legal battle for 15 years... This highly toxic insecticide has contaminated over 90% of the adult population in Guadeloupe and Martinique... Thomas CUNY and our teams in Overseas
In the West Indies, Emmanuel Macron created a surprise. He called for the recognition of chlordecone contamination as an occupational disease for farmers. This pesticide, used in banana plantations until 1993, has poisoned crops and water for centuries. The French state was accused of closing its eyes while the number of prostate cancers exploded. Used for 20 years in banana plantations to eliminate Charençon, chlordecone was banned in 1993, 17 years after the United States, it is suspected to be the cause of premature deliveries, development delays and explosion of prostate cancer. By announcing the possible recognition as an occupational disease of chlordecone exposure, the President of the Republic paves the way for compensation for agricultural workers victims of insecticide. - François DESRIAUX, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Santé et Travail": 'people are going to have to build occupational disease records based on what’s going to be in the occupational disease chart and then they’re going to have to go to Social Security or their courts and say that they’ve been infected and their pathology is coming home.' in this context." It is not known at this time what pathologies will be affected and what the compensation will be. - Mr François LAFFORGUE, advocate for victims: 'The victims are the farmers we defend, suffering from pathologies such as prostate or bladder cancer and there are environmental victims, residents who have contracted diseases related to chlordecone and we will also take action for them." Today, nearly 95% of the inhabitants of Martinique and Guadeloupe are contaminated with chlordecone but the head of state said he was opposed to a general compensation of the Caribbean population.
France remains one of the main countries using pesticides in agriculture: 70,000 tonnes per year despite the impact on the environment and health risks. In the West Indies chlordecone, which has been used for decades, is the cause of cancer and serious diseases. Entire lands have been polluted. The damage caused by this pesticide is still far from being definitively assessed. At the Pointe-à-Pitre hospital centre, prostate cancer patients. The number of these patients received each year by Professor Pascal BLANCHET and his team is exceptional. The West Indies hold the world record for prostate cancer. The cause of this is chlordecone, a pesticide used in banana plantations until the mid-2000s. The health and ecological consequences would be almost irremediable. - Corinne LEPAGE: "Many sick and many dead, considerable costs for Social Security and uneducated land for decades and decades". The babies are also victims of chlordecone which would trigger psychomotor disorders in them, except in cases of breastfeeding. Researchers are concerned about the possible persistence of these disorders. - Dr Luc MULTIGNER, researcher at INSERM: 'Will they diminish or rather increase and have a greater clinical manifestation?' At the request of the banana growers, the government has authorized by derogation the aerial spreading of pesticides in the West Indies while it is prohibited in France since 2010. An embarrassing question for the government at the environmental conference - Stéphane LE FOLL, Minister of Agriculture: "We are going to work quickly to ensure that we end up abandoning what is a health risk and what must be limited in the immediate term and abandoned in the medium term." Alerted by the oncologists, the council of the Martinique Medical Association issued an opinion against these sprays. - Prof Dominique BELPOMME, Director of the European Cancer Research Institute: 'There are other pesticides that have been withdrawn from the US market because they are highly toxic. We’ve stopped chlordecone, but we’re doing the same thing again to pollute these islands." For water and soil polluted with chlordecone, a sustainable solution is still far from being found.
According to the oncologist Dominique BELPOMME, the massive use of pesticides on farms in Martinique and Guadeloupe is responsible for a "health disaster". Following this investigation, he will request an investigation. According to Dominique BELPOMME, the use of chlordecone, an insecticide used massively in banana plantations until 1993, would cause abnormally high health problems in the French West Indies. In particular, the professor suspects that this product is responsible for prostate cancer and fertility disorders. But for the time being, no epidemiological investigation has been able to establish a relationship between chlordecone and the diseases affecting the West Indies. Luc MULTIGNER, a researcher at INSERM, believes that the exposure levels of the Caribbean population are not at risk: the concentrations of chlordecone in the blood are low. Commentary on illustration images alternating with interviews with Dominique BELPOMME and Luc MULTIGNER.
[Source: France 3 prompter] "No to impunity"... Thousands of people demonstrated yesterday in Martinique against the threat of prescription in the sensitive file of CHLOR DÉCONE... It is this carcinogenic INSECTICIDE that would have contaminated 90 percent of the Caribbean population... We take stock with Hugues HUET and our colleagues from Martinique La Première
Nine out of ten West Indians are said to have been contaminated with Chlordecone, an insectiside used against Charençon in banana plantations in the West Indies from 1973 to 1993 and which continues to pollute the soil. Testimony of a retired Guadeloupean agricultural worker, Claude JAFFARD, who handled the insectiside with his bare hands in the banana plantations: "We took the powder and put it like this at the foot of the bananas. We were given masks, but no one wore them. We were breathing plenty of it." At the time, no one warned him about the risk. At 73, he has prostate cancer. He accuses the state that authorized this product: "If it had been banned from the outset, no one could have used it. I’ve been poisoned and it’s slowly killing me."