Mycobacterium xenopi, an atypical mycobacterium, was first described in 1959 when it was isolated from skin lesions of a South African frog, Xenopus laevis; however, its pathogenicity in...

Fission products from nuclear reactors are released into the environment in gaseous form. Radioactive iodine isotopes can be inhaled and accumulate in the thyroid gland, potentially...

Introduction - As part of the FranceCoag Network project, a prospective cohort (the FranceCoag Cohort) of patients with inherited coagulation disorders (ICD) was launched in January 2003...

"A registry is a continuous and comprehensive collection of personal data pertaining to one or more health events within a defined geographic population, maintained for research and...

An increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer has been observed in the general population in France for more than 20 years. The Chernobyl accident on April 26, 1986, was responsible for...

Introduction - The objectives of this study are to provide a list of codes from the Tenth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) that can be used to describe...

Introduction - Rotaviruses are the leading cause of acute gastroenteritis in children. In the context of vaccination, careful prospective surveillance is required to monitor and...

Since 1990, the surveillance of childhood cancers in France has been carried out by the National Registry of Malignant Hematological Diseases in Children (RNHE) and, since 2000, by the...

Social disparities in health are particularly evident in the field of oral health. The INSEE Decennial Health Survey conducted in 2002–2003 provides data on the general population...

Over the past three years, the increasing number of alerts related to avian influenza has raised public awareness of the threat of a flu pandemic comparable to that of 1918–1919....