The French West Indies hold the world record for prostate cancer. According to Professor Pascal BLANCHET, a urologist at Pointe-à-Pitre CHU, there is a link between chlordecone and the explosion of the number of cancers: "We double our risk of having this disease when the level of chlordecone in the blood exceeds one microgram per litre of blood." Doctors are also concerned about disorders in infants who have ingested chlordecone through diet and who have motor delays that may worsen as they grow older. Luc MULTIGNER, researcher at Inserm: "We suspect that it may have effects on other aspects of development, possibly pose obesity problems." Illustration: Images of two medical consultations.
In the French West Indies, Chlordecone was used as an insectiside to eliminate Charençon from 1973 to 1993. In the Lamentin, in Martinique, Louis BOUTRIN, lawyer and president of Martinique Ecologie denounces the pollution of the island’s waterways and the inaction of the public authorities which knew the risks incurred since 1990. He lodged a complaint against the State which protected the banana lobby at the expense of the health of the Martinican people who used the polluted water of the rivers. He specifically quotes the ministers Jean Pierre SOISSON, Louis MERMAZ and Henri NALLET who gave a derogation to the prohibition of chlordecone.
Lancement d'une expérimentation de l'Assurance maladie dans quatre départements français concernant le remboursement de séances chez le psychologue. Le but étant de lutter contre la consommation excessive d'antidépresseurs et d'anxiolytiques par la population française... Micro-trottoir et interviews de Patrice Bouchaib, psychologue, et d'Olivier Lyon-Caen, médecin-conseil national à l'Assurance maladie.
Rencontre à Marseille avec Marie-Jeanne Robineau (Syndicat national Psychologues), psychologue depuis 20 ans, qui évoque le manque de psychologues dans la société, et leur défaut de reconnaissance et d'utilité, alors que bien des maux pourraient être traités par la parole et l'écoute au lieu de prendre divers médicaments, à condition d'avoir un statut officiel mettant le patient à l'abri des dangers et dérives d'escrocs de la profession...
Témoignages d'étudiantes à propos de leur choix de suivre un cursus d'études en psychologie, cette nouvelle discipline assez peu connue (et reconnue), et qui ouvre encore beaucoup de débouchés...
En France, la psychologie est en plein essor, avec près de 15 millions de personnes qui consultent chaque année un professionnel. Le "psy" est partout, dans les journaux, à la radio, mais également à la télé et même sur Internet... Partout, et même parfois trop, selon certains professionnels... Micro-trottoir, et interview de Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber (directeur de "Psychologies Magazine") et de Claude Halmos (psychanalyste).
Interview d'André Soulairac, professeur à la Faculté des Sciences de Nanterre, à propos des différentes étapes du cursus universitaire pour devenir psychologue. Il rappelle aussi les circonstances de la naissance de cette nouvelle discipline...
Focus sur les expériences en psychologie, avec le cas d'une malade qui a perdu l'usage du schéma corporel et de ses repère suite à un accident, elle est totalement désorientée et ne reconnait plus sa gauche de sa droite... Un psychologue la soumet à deux tests simples : désigner dans l'espace les parties de son corps, et reconstituer des dessins incomplets élémentaires...
La consultation de santé par téléphone arrive doucement en France, alors que cette pratique est déjà courante aux Etats-Unis ou au Canada. Dans l'hexagone, un nouveau site, lancé il y a quelques mois, séduit de plus en plus de personnes, notamment celles qui n'ont pas le courage ou le temps de franchir la porte de certains spécialistes comme les psychologues... Témoignage de Catherine Lemoine (mère au foyer), et interview de Amandine Landon (psychologue clinicienne) et de Jean-Pierre Camard (créateur du site "jeconsulteunpsy.com").
"The AIDS epidemic is causing a real psychosis in the United States comparable to that of leprosy, we no longer count the various facts due to the fear of contagion..." announces an AFP dispatch. On the set of "Today Life", Dr.André SIBOULET, Institut Alfred Fournier, gives an update on the symptoms of AIDS observed mainly in homosexuals, its modes of transmission and formally confirms the existence of the syndrome.
In the United States, the development of a form of cancer (Kaposi’s sarcoma) in male homosexuals is being studied, a cancer that is developing very rapidly. For the moment all hypotheses are possible: a virus that would weaken the resistance of the organism but whose multiplicity of contacts in the gay community would promote transmission; the use of drugs, especially "poppers"; a very intense sex life? Report in New York where the virus is rampant.
In New York September 1983, a French AIDS patient, Martin F., explains the consequences of a press campaign on AIDS: "you become a plague victim" who can infect anyone. Many hospital staff, dentists or embalmers refuse contact with people with AIDS.
AIDS scientists from around the world gathered in New York for a conference to take stock of the state of research. Meeting and dialogue with some of them, sitting on a lawn. They discuss the behaviour of the virus (that of HTLV and that discovered by the Institut Pasteur), the risks of contamination, the presence, confirmed or not, of the virus in the sperm. The speakers are Dr Donald FRANCIS from the Atlanta Centre for Disease Control and Dr Robert GALLO from the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda.
In the United States, an interview with a doctor who talks about the appearance of a new virus: he explains this new and rare situation because it will make it possible to make discoveries in the fight against cancer.
Miscarriages are still a taboo topic today. In view of this loneliness and the important psychological consequences that derive from it, an association, AGAPA, offers listening and support in order to free oneself from this unspoken.
There is a lack of empathy and support on the part of the medical profession towards patients who are victims of miscarriages. Professor Thierry HARVEY, head of the maternity department of the Deaconesses in Paris, talks about the lack of training and the problems of staffing in hospitals. Moreover, the loneliness of women who have miscarried and the taboo about this phenomenon do not allow us to mourn this trauma.
Hélène LEGRAND, gynecologist, and Micheline GAREL, psychologist at INSERM, authors of "The lost pregnancy", came to talk about miscarriages. They emphasize the psychological consequences and the importance of being accompanied.
Experts gathered in Toulouse to appeal to local maternity and elected officials to treat stillborn children with greater dignity. Indeed, parents who lose a child a few months pregnant, need to talk about this loss as a real death.