In France, the Institut Pasteur is activating its research to detect exactly the origin of the virus that affects China. Interview with Professor Jean-Claude MANUGUERRA, Institut Pasteur Paris, on the evolution of this virus in humans. He is also concerned that the virus is becoming more and more contagious.
Reportage consacré aux mesures prévues en cas de pandémie, à travers l'exemple de la grippe porcine. Déclaration du professeur Didier Houssin (directeur général de la Santé), sur les différents niveaux d'alerte et les mesures applicables à chaque seuil. Cette procédure stricte en six phases de l'alerte mondiale face à une pandémie est définie par l'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé.
La Dépakine, un antiépileptique des laboratoires Sanofi, serait responsable de nombreuses malformations lors de la grossesse.
Marine Martin, de l'association APESAC, a pris ce médicament durant sa grossesse. Son fils est né avec des handicaps. Interviewée, elle explique : "Un jour, je me suis révoltée, j'ai dit non c'est pas possible, d'autres enfants vont naître avec ce traitement et personne ne dit rien, personne ne bouge, il faut que je fasse quelque chose".
En mars 1974, une épidémie de fièvre aphteuse provoque la mise en quarantaine d'une soixantaine de communes de Bretagne. Le village de Plumaugat en fait partie, la vie des habitants y est bouleversée. Les habitants se terrent chez eux, craignant toujours qu'un parent ou un voisin ne leur transmettent le virus.
Report at a daycare centre in Marseille funded by the organization Sol En Si and which welcomes children from 3 months to 6 years old from families in social distress, some HIV positive, others HIV negative. Evocation of resistance encountered by the association (neighbourhood reluctance)
The Ministry of Health is launching a national AIDS information campaign to raise awareness among young people about the risks of HIV transmission. Excerpt from the press conference of Michèle BARZACH, Minister of Health, followed by interviews with Jean-Jacques BEINEIX and Michèle BARZACH.
Testimony of a couple on their choice to donate sperm. For the husband: "there is no doubt, the real father is the one who will raise the child". His wife points out "when you have children, you understand the problem of people who can’t have children".
Report. News of the first graft of both hands. Denis CHATELIER was operated on just two years ago. In front of the press today he said he had regained an almost normal sensibility. Commentary on images of the press conference by Denis CHATELIER alternating with interviews with Professor Jean Michel DUBERNARD (Edouard Herriot Lyon hospital) and Denis CHATELIER.
A report on the difficulties of assisted human reproduction for some women in France, where the law imposes an age limit of 43 years and a maximum of four attempts at in vitro fertilization. Meeting with a mother who had her baby at the age of 45 thanks to a donation of eggs made in Greece. Commentary on factual and infographic images alternating with the testimony of this mother and the interviews of Pierre Louis FAGNIEZ, deputy UMP author of the bioethics law and Professor René FRYDMAN, the origin of the first test tube.
Report on the difficulties associated with the in vitro fertilization method. Meeting with Dr René FRYDMAN, obstetric gynecologist at the Béclère hospital in Clamart and with Jacques TESTART, researcher at INSERM, who show how the fertilization of an oocyte takes place in a heated incubator.
Report on the lack of sports practice of French schoolchildren. If the law provides for six hours a week, half of the students do less than two hours. Commentary on images of children in a municipal swimming pool alternating with interviews of doctor LAUDE sports doctor.
Essential oils are used for the skin, the respiratory tract, headaches and aromatherapy are becoming increasingly popular in France. - Micro-sidewalk with users in a pharmacy - At Laguepie, in Tarn and Garonne, Laurent GAUTUN, President of Essenciagua, shows and comments on the different stages of plant treatment in order to remove the concentrate used in essential oils thanks to his artisanal method (the plants are packed with the feet before being distilled at low pressure in the still). Entire. Plan Bottle gouging on the back of a hand, finger applying oil on the skin of the hand. - Diffusers emitting smoke. - Close-up anonymous nose smelling of a kleenex, handkerchief. - Close-up oil drop placed on a pellet. - Close-up anonymous mouth swallowing a lozenge. - Close-up bottle of returned oil dropping a drop on the camera glass. - Interior store images: Pano Shelves filled with bottles - Close-up labels describing the ingredients of essential oils brand "essenciagua" - Close-up essential oil bottle label. - close-up bottles placed on a shelf, anonymous hand grasping a bottle.
A few days before the 20th edition of the Téléthon, the controversy between the Association française contre les myopathies (AFM) and the Catholic Church has risen a notch. The Church questions the use of the funds raised for research on embryonic stem cells and the screening of sick embryos during in vitro fertilization, which she considers contrary to Christian ethics. This opposition worries the Telethon officials, who fear the repercussions on donations. Commentary on illustration images (laboratory, cells under the microscope) alternating with the interviews of Michel DUBOST, bishop of Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes, and René FRYDMAN, gynecology-obstetric service reproductive medicine, Hôpital Béclère.
In his office a practitioner engages in a session of auriculotherapy on one of his patients by explaining to him the effects of his manipulations. Explanations in illustration of the principles of action of auriculotherapy.
Panorama in pictures of the stands at the Salon des Médecines Douces in Paris in 1984. Images of the panels indicating the different areas and the different stands: Fyto-behavioral, musicotherapy, transcendental meditation, practical hypnosis, etiopathy, reflexology, care by algae, etc. Practitioners in etiopathy, in iridonevraxology, in acupuncture explain the principles of action of their disciplines.
Homeopathy practices in France. An adept shows the homeopathy pellets she regularly swallows. In the premises of the firm "Biron", illustration in images of the various stages of manufacture of homeopathic granules in the factories of Strasbourg: reception of dried plants, maceration in drums, laboratory dilution of mother tincture, granular packaging chain. A laboratory official explains that we do not know how dilutions work.
On infographics and illustration images, journalist Guy SARTHOULET explains how homeopathy works and how medicines are manufactured. The interview with Doctor Pierre Barbier, which evokes what can be treated with homeopathy, completes this presentation.
In Gradignan, the premises of a French homeopathy laboratory have just been inaugurated, a sign of public interest in this therapy. The report proposes a visit to the premises of the Boiron laboratories, with explanations on the principles of homeopathic treatments using the example of angina. This medicine treats the individual in its entirety and not the disease. The Gradignan laboratory employs 39 people and serves 9 departments. Industrial preparations are stored there and prescriptions are made there which cannot be made at the parent company in Lyon for reasons of time. It also provides distribution to 380 pharmacies in the Bordeaux region, one of the regions where homeopathy is best represented in France. Interview with Doctor Jean BOIRON, CEO of the laboratories: "There is a steady increase in homeopathy, in the interest that the sick bring to this gentle non-iatrogenic therapy, with an increasing demand, as well as of the medical profession as a whole and the scientific community. It is a scientific therapy. See the book "L'Homéopathie: Médecine de l'expérience" by Denis Demarque. Indeed, all homeopathy is based on experimentation, since the testing of drug substances in healthy humans." The expansion that this company has undergone for 50 years is based on a rigorous quality policy, on scientific and chemical research, because what has slowed the development of this therapeutic, it is his action in infinitesimal doses that is contested. This laboratory has helped to demonstrate its scientific value.
Eighth Salon of "Alternative Medicines" at the Porte de Versailles. - Plans of visitors experimenting with the various methods proposed: man lying under the metal tubes of a pyramidologist; woman putting a net on her head; application of a roulette (?) on a visitor’s skull; explanations of an Asian exhibitor to his [American plan] stands. Interview of visitors above about the effects felt. - Exhibitor jumping on a trampoline explaining that his device is used by NASA. - Interview with Dr René Louis, President of the Order of Physicians: "Medicine does not have to be soft or harsh, it must be human and effective". - Other demonstrations of "alternative medicines" in the Salon: passage of wooden wheels under the feet and in the back of one patient; massage of another. - Interview with Jean-François Girard, Director General of Health: "Of the 34 (soft medicine) techniques, none are seriously evaluated. While some have proven their worth, such as acupuncture, others are real scams". - Reflection of the journalist in a small box whose bottom is a mirror and the sides are marked "Say: I love me".