The Mediator scandal in France not only disgusted the nation but revealed just how the system can go wrong. Medical expert independence is essential to ensure drug security. Conflicts of interest are many and often kept secret. The pharmaceutical companies who finance research, specialised media and professional training, are often accused. But what is the truth ? Victims, doctors and government health officials have now been heard. Many disturbing revelations have come to light under the transparency laws. This is an exceptional investigative report.

This film takes a rare glimpse at the harsh and disturbing reality of mental illness amongst prison inmates. It looks at the different types of disorders, the way in which mental illness is dealt with by prison staff and the courses of treatment offered by the prisons' medical body.

Film showing testimonies of three patients with heart failure. Heart failure is a chronic, progressive illness.

"When you die, how long do you sleep?" is a film on words used to relieve.

Ever since autism was described for the first time by Kanner in 1943, the criteria defining the symptoms have evolved considerably. An INSERM study estimates the autism rate among the population to be 27 in 10,000. The gene trail, though not explaining everything, is becoming clearer by the day. Furthermore, modern brain scanning tools are beginning to provide some answers for certain dysfunctions in the perception of emotions.

Habitually associated with the colour black, with death, the spider figures among the list of the animal world's most hated creatures. The spider inspires repulsion, to the point of phobia in certain individuals. Its dark velvety appearance, its rapidity and the unpredictable nature of its movements are often cited as reasons for this repulsion.

This judgement is hasty, irrational and unjust, since out of the 35.000 recorded species, only a hundred or so can actually cause a reaction in humans and only a dozen are really dangerous.

Over the course of a lifetime, a single human being can produce over 6 tonnes of excrement. But despite its importance, it remains a subject of great taboo.

So for those with a delicate disposition, whenever we refer to our number twos or faeces, stools, turds, shit, crap, droppings and poo-poos we'll be using a more fragrant code name: the rose.

We will be facing our greatest taboo head on as we examine our "roses" in more detail than ever before. Picking apart their petals one by one.

A film especially conceived for describing the systematic teaching of the technical approach leading to a reliable and sensitive clinical gynaecological examination. It is divided into five chapters :

• the correct position of the patient,
• examination of the genitalia,
• speculum examination,
• microbiological and cytological sampling
• two-handed palpation.

Invisible gestures of the palpation are represented by animations to obtain a high degree of didactical emphasis.

This document is an introduction to the technique of problem-based learning, (PBL) with the help of a concrete example realised with 2nd year medical students. You will learn the methodology of this didatic approach (the 8 steps of PBL, the role of the tutor, the role of the students) while you are immersed in the atmosphere of a tutorial. The emphasis is placed upon the function of the tutor. This document lends itself particularly well to the training of tutors and students lead to participate in the PBL tutorials, in order to gain a prior glimpse of PBL.

This film is the third in a series of 3 television programs designed to introduce the medical profession to the concept of PHARMACOECONOMICS. This is a young but rapidly evolving science which joins the notions of economic evaluation with those of quality of life and global management of pathology. Pharmacoeconomics is currently forming the base of future therapeutic strategies. It encompasses the challenges which face research scientists, doctors, and all other health care professionals. This series had been shown on Belgian television at the end of 1996 and is still available on video.