Once a diagnosis of serious illness such as cancer is confirmed, it is usually a trauma that strucks a life. Not only for the patient, but also for his whole entourage, who must absorb the shock. But then the differences in temperament and sometimes very different ways to approach the disease can lead to mixed results. In this case, is the story of women who have decided to adopt the "positive attitude" against cancer, and have not lost their smiles throughout treatment. When the Olympic champion of good humor gets involved, no tumor can resist!

In 1929, a young surgical resident, Werner Forssmann, made an incision into his antecubital vein and fed a catheter into the right atrium of his own heart. A risky but successful experiment, which made it possible to improve the diagnosis of heart diseases and paved the way to other spectacular firsts, such as the first open-heart operations in 1944, implantation of a silicon heart valve prosthesis in 1960, heart transplantation in 1967...

Rhumatology is a medical field which deals with the rheumatic or osteoarticular affections (i.e. which touch bones and articulations) and their possible consequences, for example a degradation of the cartilage (osteoarthritis) or severe inflammatory problems (spondylarthritis or rhumatoid polyarthritis). In rhumatology, the rhumatoid polyarthritis is the most frequent chronic inflammatory affection rheumatic. It is caused by a disorder of the immune system which starts to attack tissues rather than to protect them (= auto-immune disease).

Three educational filps produced by France Alzheimer to improve the care and support of those affected by Alzheimer's disease and enable families and healyh professionnals to share information and expériences.

Take Another Look is a training tape to improve officers' understanding to seizures of epilepsy and to help them todistinguish between seizure-related behavior and behaviour caused by illegal activity, substance abuse or otherconditions. It features police officers, people with epilepsy and examples of actual seizures. This video was producedin response to a U.S. Department of Justice request for materials to help inform police departments across the country of issues related to the new Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

In non-fertile couples, azoospermia represents 9 % of the various causes. The overall results from a hormonal and seminal profile will orient the etiology towards either an excretory or secretory origin. In excretory azoospermia, micro surgical techniques may in some cases reestablish sperm path permeability. According to the results, supplementary analysis may be attempted with new techniques of movement analysis and by monoclonal antibody studies of the acrosomic reaction. Azoospermia is a pathology which the couple must share.

Diagnostic and therapeutic progress in medicine using new video techniques in some medical specialties : gynaecology, dentistry, ORL, micro surgery, general surgery, coelioscopy surgery and gastro-enterology.

Using three clinical neurology cases, the film uses humor to illustrate a number of elements which lead to diagnosis.

Emergency situations from seven patients describing different problems more or less urgent, diagnostic difficulties. Practical applications are discussed with each case.

Depression is a common mental disorder. Today, 8 to 15% of the population is subject to depressive disorders requiring treatment. This film presents 3 clinical cases which should help to better identify the disorder in patients : - a 35 year man for situational depression - a teenager with adolescent depression - a senior with reactive depression after a death in the family.