Heart failure is a very common condition, with approx. 15 million sufferers in Europe and 100,000 in Switzerland. It is the only cardio-vascular condition that continues to become more widespread every year. It is the main reason why people aged over 65 are admitted to hospital.

Some diseases are especially scary because they attack one of our most valuable assets: vision. This is the case of retinitis pigmentosa, an illness that affects one in 4000 in Belgium. At the beginning, the edges of objects and landscapes become blurred; then the degeneration of the retina causes a progressive loss of sight, eventually reaching complete blindness. But the good news is that recently several major advances have been made in understanding and treating this disease.

Our life expectancy has never been higher. In the eighteenth century, the average age did not exceed 25 years. And in the nineteenth, it peaked at 43 years. Finally in the twentieth century, thanks to advances in medicine and living conditions, it jumped phenomenally.

Today, in Belgium, this hope is 75 years for men and 80 for women. Meanwhile, the number of centenarians is also growing very quickly. A trend that is accelerating ...

The affair of the Mediator revealed in a tragic way the drift and the dysfunctions of the market of the medicine in France. Nevertheless in a country where 9 consultations on 10 end in prescriptions (that is twice more than in the Netherlands) the question has its importance. This very steady consumption of medicines contributed to make the strength of the French pharmaceutical companies which saw their profits multiplied by 5 in 20 years. This financial power allowed them to weave networks and extremely powerful lobbies at the risk of colliding with alarming conflicts of interests.

To risk its life in Afghanistan on behalf of the Hippocratic Oath. From Paris to Kabul, this new reporting of 26 minutes was screened in the French Defence Health Service. Between emergency, support to the soldiers and help to the population…This film tells us the everyday of these 180 doctors, nurses and hospital porters 6000 km from France. We have screened during two weeks in the heart of the French Defence Health Service in Afghanistan to understand the work of these war doctors .

And if a team of Belgian researchers were about to highlight a revolutionary treatment that can cure with high efficiency, some forms of cancer? A few years ago, a research group of Gembloux, led by Lucas Willems led to Arsène Burny, discovered, quite by chance and a lot by intuition, that a certain type of molecule could have a surprising property: the reminded that cancer cells have to die instead of falling asleep and accumulate to form tumors. A breakthrough, which has generated much hope!

In Niger, peolpe settles for basic medicine distributed by health centers, contraband medicine or traditional amulettes that are supposed to protect oneself against evil.
All the while, an alternative exists. This alternative has existed for thousands of years and just waits to be fully developped : medicine that is produced from African plants.
While Casimir Azandeme, the young director of the herb cultivation facility Bani Turi, is trying to distribute his newly produced medicine, Damouré Zika, an old traditional healer, has always used them.

The hugs and cuddles, it is nice to give and receive. And for good reason, they stimulate and trigger a range of mechanisms including hormone in our body. Result: they bring us relaxation, relaxation and self-esteem. But that's not all! Caresses, and more generally the physical love and tenderness, can have a much more impressive still. They may act at the heart of our cells and our carrément genetic influence, as evidenced by very serious Canadian Studies. Thus, the fact of being and have been fondled or less would have a direct impact on our resistance to stress, for example.

ometimes when you least expect it. Its causes are often very difficult to identify. It embarrasses and makes not the best journalists to pursue an interview or comment online. Formidable phenomenon for any speaker, hiccups keep a good share of mystery. Harmless in most cases, it is much less in the most extreme cases: the syndrome of persistent hiccups, which affects one in 100,000, may take several days or even years! How to get rid of them? Everyone has an idea but only one is 100% effective...

In the privacy of a room, Géraldine Olivier and will give birth to Noah. A penalty pushed her first cry, the child is in the arms of his parents. Concurrently, the painless gynecologist gets blood from the umbilical cord still attached to the placenta. We are witnessing in real time, a gift that may help save another life ... Indeed, Noah was born left trapped stem cells in cord. Cells that can cure certain leukemias example. Today, this little cord much about him. More and more banks are being developed to store these precious cells for future use.