The Poissy correctional facility houses inmates serving long sentences. The medical unit recently established an addiction treatment clinic.

How do flood victims experience this type of disaster? An ethnologist collected testimonies from sixty people in a village affected by a deadly flood in the Aude region. The practice of...

To round out this issue dedicated to the topic of gender, we present a selection of resources here. Background documents, consisting of reports and survey data, provide a clear,...

Jean-François Labes, who is deaf and serves as president of an association, explains that it is not inevitable that deaf people will be stigmatized and mistreated by society. It is up to...

Introduction - Our objective was to describe the current epidemiology of oral cavity cancers in France. Materials and Methods - National incidence data for oral cavity cancers were...

Background: Female lung cancer mortality in France has increased by 3% annually over the past twenty years, reaching 4,500 deaths in 2000. This increase, which has not been observed...

Background: Several studies have been conducted among French nuclear workers on the effects of external exposure to ionizing radiation (IR). A pilot study on the effects of internal...

In January 2003, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) was asked by the Ministries of Health and Labor to investigate a possible excess of kidney cancer cases at a...

The purpose of this article is to examine how addiction treatment is organized in prisons and how it has evolved, as well as how the prison environment tends to concentrate a high...

Despite the lack of evidence supporting its effectiveness, PSA testing is widely performed, most often at the initiative of doctors.