Although they never really went away, scooters have made a strong comeback over the past two years. The resurgence in usage following the sales boom in 2000 has, unsurprisingly, been...

The city of Mitrovica, located in northern Kosovo, lies at the entrance to a valley where a lead ore processing plant was built. For several decades, this region has been subject to...

This article, based on an analysis of Ehlass data, presents the epidemiology of rollerblading accidents that occurred between 1997 and 1999, as recorded in the emergency departments of...

The basis of this database is the recording, in the emergency departments of several participating hospitals, of patient visits resulting from everyday accidents, including data on the...

Key points: - Approximately 13,000 invasive infections caused by these six bacteria in France in 2003, 60% of which were caused by S. pneumoniae. - Stability in invasive infections...

Female lung cancer mortality in France has risen by 3% annually over the past twenty years, reaching 4,500 deaths in 2000. This increase, which has not been observed among men (15,000...

The project “Development of a Standard Survey on Accidents in Daily Life to Complement Hospital Data,” abbreviated as “Standard Survey,” was part of the European Union’s health policy...

Accidents in daily life are the most common and the most frequently fatal: they occur 2.5 times more often than traffic accidents. Falls, suffocation, poisoning, drowning, and fires are...

This report presents descriptive epidemiological data on accidents in daily life (ADL) as reported in the 2002 Health and Social Protection Survey. The breakdown of ACDs by age, sex,...