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 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.

This documentary deals with a very special brain operation.

In official competition

Here we are, in Dr Moussa Maman's surgery. The room is basic, the space cramped: a few chairs, a plain rug on the floor to be used as a bed. The characters: Dr Maman, his assistant and a few patients who come by, including a witch doctor. Palustrean fevers and anguished throats, the prescriptions of Doctor Maman differ.

In official competition

When it comes to drugs like heroin, cocaine or ecstasy, for example, associating, of course, the notions of lack of addiction and potentially deadly. But when it comes to cannabis, things are less clear. The consumption of the drug, commonly known as hashish, of shit, grass or marijuana, is trivialized by some ... and demonized by others. What is it? Cannabis is the drug soft, "natural" and therefore harmless described by the younger? Or a drug which can be dangerously addicted?