It is a surgery that has one of the highest success rate ... Each year, more than 20,000 Belgians profit from it: the hip replacement is having more and more followers. And not necessarily in the elderly population! How does one live before and especially after such an operation? Did you know that each case is unique and requires the use of multiple advanced techniques? After going the knife, most patients wonder why they have not taken that decision sooner !

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.

Management of a patient operated on for a carotid stenosis under hypno-analgesia, from the anesthesia visit before the operation to discharge. This technique opens a new dialogue between patients and caregivers but also between caregivers.

In Ivory Coast, the fight beetwen surgeons and a terrible desease : Buruli Ulceris.

In official competition

In Niger and Switzerland the story of three children faced of the noma desease.

In official compétition

Several times each year, they find themselves 13.000 Km from home in a hospital in Laos. They come from Luxemburg, from Strasbourg, from Freiburg : they are surgeons, pediatricians, nurses, anaesthetists…

For one week, they operate on children suffering from heart malformations and they train a laotian medical team so it can become autonomous in a near future. Total immersion in Mahosot Hospital in Vientiane during one of the missions of Aid to Health Development.

A lady has a story of endometriosis. Some complementary examinations confirm this diagnosis. An endoscopie surgery is carried. One month later, the results are estimated.

Speak, and I'll tell you who you are! By definition, a voice is a whole of sounds, produced by the vibrations of our vocal folds of course, by also by many other complex mechanisms. A voice can be transformed, and evolves with us during our life. Like a musical instrument, it allows us not only to communicate, but also to be recongnized and identified. Some people suffer from having a voice which is unappropriate to the physical appearance, but fortunately this kind of problems can be solved. What about nice and gentle voices ? Are they always linked to nice and gentles physical appearences ?

100,000 children die each year in Africa, South America and South Asia because of this illness called NOMA that might be overthrown quite easily.

Shot in Niger, this film shows the work of some doctors and surgical teams who try to save children from what is supposed to be their destiny.

Studies, using a nasal model in a water bath enable visualization of endonasal currents, confirm findings that turbulence and laminar currents are not natural and may only serve as a model for the surgeon.