Report on the measures adopted by the government to fight against medical deserts while the Minister of Health, Marisol TOURAINE has just announced that an income of 4,600 euros per month will be guaranteed to doctors who decide to settle in the areas that are lacking practitioners. A measure that leaves medical students dubious. Comment on factual and archival images, alternating with infographics and interviews of medical students, by Jean-Pierre CROSSONNEAU, President of the Board of the Ordre des Médecins du Loiret.
A giant condom, pink, on the obelisk, is the operation of the Act Up activists at the Concorde in Paris on the occasion of World AIDS Day. This action is funded by the Benetton brand which may have wanted to buy back a drive after its highly controversial advertising campaign on HIV tattoos. Commentary on images of the implementation of the giant condom this morning at 7am with intervention of the CRS, and interview of Cleews VELLAY, president of Act Up, which denounces the weakness of prevention in France, recalls the message of this operation "Aids, stop this slaughter" and deplores the attitude of the police.
Presentation of advances in cancer research and an innovation exploited at the Curie Institute, the DNA chip, including Jean-Paul THIERY, CNRS Research Director at the Curie Institute, presents the principles. His interview is illustrated by images of researchers from his laboratory in full manipulation alternating with microscopy image inserts.
Presentation of 3D printing used for cancer research at the Institut Pierre Gilles de Gennes. Comment on images of this printer and various manipulations in this laboratory alternating with interviews of Ivan FERRANTE, research engineer at the Institut Pierre Gilles de Gennes et Jean-Louis VIOVY, biophysician and CNRS research director at the Curie Institute, who explain how reproduction of human bone structure is essential to better understand the mechanisms at work in the development of cancer.
Nutrition specialists from the elderly gathered in Paris say that muscle maintenance plays an important role in longevity. Comment on images of seniors involved in sports: tennis, Formula 1, cycling, alternating with the interview of Robert BOUCHER (82) and Jeannine (69) and Miriam NELSON, nutritionist, Tufts University (Boston).
Interview with Gisèle HALIMI, lawyer, about the association "Mothers d'accueil" created by two Marseilles doctors, allowing a couple who cannot have a child naturally to have recourse to a "surrogate mother". It evokes the legal and ethical problems posed by this "belly rental", which makes the woman a "breeding beast", leading to a regression from the point of view of civilization.
Cholera remains a scourge for half of the planet’s population (probably 30-50,000 deaths per year). A team of scientists has identified the genetic makeup of the responsible microbe, 'the angry vibrion', which could lead to the development of an effective vaccine. Illustrated report of archival images and interview of Dr Jean-Michel FOURNIER of the Institut Pasteur.
In Bologna, Professor Petrucci and his team may have paved the way for test-tube babies, obtaining for 29 days the development of a human embryo in the laboratory. They filmed this experiment.
The practice of sport in companies is a growing trend, with more and more sports equipment now being offered to employees in their workplace. Evaluation of its benefits for employees in terms of well-being and social cohesion, and its interest in business. Comment on factual images and infographic card alternating with interviews with employees, a physical preparer and the manager of the MGEN centre in Montpellier.
Several hospitals have launched the White Plan to deal with the emergency of the influenza epidemic. In Troyes, beds were added, caregivers were recalled, and activities were deprogrammed. In Metz, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, a hundred patients came to the emergency room. Comment on factual images and interviews Josiane BILS (Director of Care Troyes Hospital) and Martine MOUGEOT (Head of Care Robert Schuman Hospital in Metz).
The influenza epidemic is this early and particularly virulent year. The proportion of hospitalized patients is significant: 80% of patients over 75 years of age must be treated in hospital. During a fields visit, the Minister of Health Marisol TOURAINE explains that non-emergency care must be deprogrammed in case of epidemic or heat wave. The commentary on factual images, infographics, alternates with the Minister’s interview.
Reportage in Alsace, Oberbruck, where the municipality has set up a teleconsultation system to cope with the chronic shortage of doctors. Demonstration of its functioning with the example of a consultation, in the presence of a nurse who remotely assists the doctor. Comment on factual images alternating with interviews with Christian HEMETTER, general practitioner practising teleconsultation, Jérôme EICH and Olivier FRITZ, patients sharing their impressions after their first consultation as well as Jacques BEHRA, Mayor of Oberbruck.
While MEPs consider a proposal for legislation to reinstate, in a framed manner, research on embryos, a report to I-STEM, Institute of Strain Cells for the Treatment and Study of Monogenic Diseases, which up until now had been granted a waiver to be able to study stem cells. Commentary on images from the laboratory, interviews with Cécile MARTINAT, research manager INSERM, I-STEM, Marc PESCHANSKI, research director I-STEM and Jean-Philippe WOOLF, Cochin Hospital (AP-HP), Paris.
Report on stroke in young people, which now affects a quarter of patients. Testimonies of two people of about twenty years, recommendations, and explanations of the neurologist Charlotte CORDONNIER.
A team from the hospital Saint-Antoine in Paris managed to create and manufacture human blood from stem cells and even transfused it, a world first. It took six years of efforts by French researchers to produce some human blood. They took a donor of bone marrow stem cells and cultured them for three weeks to get a hundred billion red blood cells and put them back into the donor’s body: a successful experiment. Professor Luc DOUAY, researcher at the Inserm: "these red blood cells, once injected into humans, behave in the same way as the red blood cells injected during a conventional transfusion. So this is a formal demonstration that these red blood cells are functional. ' This is a breakthrough. Until now, all attempts at artificial blood transfusion have been unsuccessful. There are other steps that have to be taken. The experiment has been successful in self-transfusion. You now have to get a transfusion with two separate people. You don’t know how to make blood in large quantities. Marie Catherine GIARRATANA, research engineer at the Pierre and Marie Curie University: "It will take another 5 to 10 years, if only for the development of new technological tools. We’re working on it, so meet in 7-10 for the first massive productions." A hope. But in the meantime, blood donation will remain the only resource for transfusions. 500,000 people are transfused every year in France. We need 9000 blood bags a day.
Une bactérie mortelle, nommée ECEH, a été découverte en Allemagne dans des graines germées. Gert Lindemann, ministre de l'agriculture de Base-Saxe, explique comment cette bactérie a pu entrer sur le sol allemand. 22 personnes sont déjà décédées et deux mille autres sont contaminées.
According to a report from the Institute of Health Watch, while the AIDS epidemic is declining, it is still not under control among the homosexual male population. Today almost every second contamination occurs in this group. The associations are calling for the resumption of awareness-raising campaigns targeted at at-risk populations. Commentary on illustration images and infographic images alternating with the interviews of Caroline SEMAILLE, co-author of the study of the Institut de veille sanitaire, which explains that 15-18% of the homosexual community is infected with HIV, Jonas LEBAIL, activist of Act Up, who explains the relaunch of vigilance by the arrival of tritherapies, and Dominick DESCHARLES, mission manager of Aides, that evokes the taboo of disease.
Report at the hospital in Garches where the staff of the hospital Poincaré began to be vaccinated against influenza A. Pedagogical work was necessary because vaccination is scary and a third of the staff is still reluctant. Comment on factual images interspersed by the interview of Jérôme SALOMON (professor of medicine), Pierre CARLI (idem) and Jean-Marie LE GUEN (chairman of the AP-HP Board of Directors).