As part of the "Heart Week", report on the benefits of sport for the 50th anniversary and beyond. Commentary on factual images, interviews with several seniors including Hubert GINS and Michel CHIRIE, who regularly participate in a sporting activity.
Report on the success of boxing in France. Commentary on factual images of a training in a Parisian boxing room, alternating with interviews of amateur boxers and Xavier DURAND, sports coach.
Twice a day, the employees of a Troyes workshop perform relaxation movements in music in the company of a physical education instructor. These exercises have the advantage of relaxing the muscles, fighting fatigue and pain caused by the sedentary nature of the workstations and improving the performance of the employees. Comment on images of pause gymnastics.
In his office at Groote Schurr Hospital in Cape Town, Dr Chris BARNARD, who performed the first heart transplant in the world, explains that heart transplants are likely to become widespread, and hopes that theseThese become common operations.
Open-heart surgery for a pacemaker in a patient with Adams-Stokes disease. Images of the operation and heart rate tracking charts commented by the surgeon interviewed by the journalist.
Presentation by Mr LONGCHAMBON, Secretary of State for Scientific Research, on the nuclear industry in the service of health. Images shot in an anti-cancer institute illustrate how atomic energy can be used to cure certain diseases, such as deep tumors, thanks to an electric accelerator.
After the outbreak of AIDS in 1981 in the United States, France is in turn affected with 53 cases. Meeting with two physicians who provide details about the disease and its mode of contamination. Interviews with Dr. Patrice MEYER, David KLATZMANN, Immunologist, Pitié Salpêtrière, and Georges MATHE, Cancer Specialist, Paul Brousse Hospital.
The origin of this flu was in the United States, in Kansas. Commentary on factual and archival images, photos and interviews Nadia NAFFAKH (researcher at the CNRS Institut Pasteur) and Bruno HALIOUA (doctor and author of the book "The history of medicine for losers").
In Brest, at the military cemetery of Kerfautras, soldiers infected with Spanish flu were buried during the First World War. Alternating factual images, archives, and interviews Sébastien DELAGE (member of the French Remembrance) and Bruno HALIOUA (doctor and author of the book "The history of medicine for losers").
A retrospective based on an archive of Ebola virus outbreaks, after its reappearance in Kikwit, Zaire. First appeared in 1976 near the Ebola River, the virus claimed 280 lives. In 1989, in Washington, laboratory monkeys had been infected but the virus had been eradicated thanks to the intervention of the army. Comment on photographs, archive images and factual images.
Presentation of the «exploits» of Gérard HOLTZ during the 1989 edition of the Téléthon, commented on on the stage by Michel DRUCKER and Claude SERILLON, accompanied by Alain DELON, Philippe GUILLHAUME, President of Antenne 2 and Gérard HOLTZ himself. Editing of the images showing him being hoisted on the Esplanade de la Défense, throwing himself into the Seine, water skiing and cycling.
Reportage shot within the Appolo family, 11 years old, suffering from myopathy of the belts (gamma-sarcoglycanopathy). This young boy may fight the disease, but he will soon have no use for his legs. Testimony of Appolo, his parents and his big sister, alternating with a commentary on scenes of their family life.
The first telemedicine booth in France is used by the retirement home of Cluny in Burgundy. Comment on images of a teleconsultation and interview of a patient from the nursing home as well as the director of the institution.
Interview with Jacques MARESCAUX, President of the Association de recherche contre le cancer de l'système digestif: "When you use this instrument, you have a great facility and precision. It will be difficult to do without it. The advantage is the telecomputer: sometimes you need the help of a more expert surgeon for part of the operation: it will be possible to operate remotely".
Report on the disappearance of general practitioners in rural areas. More and more local doctors are retiring as the arrival of young doctors continues to decline. Comment on factual images and infographics alternating with interviews of Pierre JAUNEAU general practitioner in Courville on Eure and one of his patients.
Professor René FRYDMAN, obstetric gynecologist at the Antoine Béclère hospital, comments on the birth of a baby from a frozen embryo in Australia. "This evolution is in the logic of fertilization" In vitro, but it poses an ethical problem because it opens the door to embryo banks. Research in this fields is in its infancy in France.
Followed by a 43-year-old business leader, Mr. Martinoli (?) who is taking back physical activity for the holidays. Before resuming cycling, he consults a specialist in sports medicine and undergoes examinations. Comment on images of the working manager, passing a health check and riding a bike alternating with the interviews of Monsieur Martinoli (?) and his doctor.