Between November 2004 and January 2005, a prospective national survey was conducted to estimate the incidence of maternal and congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections detected during...

Introduction - The national program for the prevention of congenital toxoplasmosis has been in place in France since 1978, but no data are available on the annual number of cases. To...

Introduction - Toxoplasmosis is transmitted through the ingestion of contaminated food or contact with an infected cat. During pregnancy, Toxoplasma can cause eye damage in the fetus or,...

Surveillance of rubella infections in pregnant women and congenital rubella was established in France in 1976 through the Rénarub laboratory network. Its purpose is to assess the impact...

Sports-related accidents are a subset of accidents of daily life (ADL). On their own, they account for nearly 20% of ADLs requiring emergency department visits, or approximately 900,000...

In 2005, tests on fish caught in the Rhône River, upstream from Lyon, revealed levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) exceeding regulatory health limits. Further investigations,...

Introduction: Early puberty is suspected to be promoted by exposure to endocrine disruptors (EDs), and its incidence has been identified by an international panel of scientists as a key...

How do you get others to accept you when you’re different? How do you make friends as a child or teenager when you don’t look like everyone else? The film *Wonder* starts with an extreme...

The purpose of this report is to further explore the link between health and education and to demonstrate how this interdependence is even closer than is generally believed, and how it...