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Surveillance of alveolar echinococcosis in France: a review of five years of data collection, 2001–2005.
Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a rare but serious larval cestodiasis caused by the development of the Echinococcus multilocularis (E. multilocularis) larva in the liver. It requires...
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Priorities and actions taken in the area of non-food-borne zoonoses, 2000–2005.
Non-foodborne zoonoses vary widely in terms of causative agents, modes of transmission, geographic distribution, and significance for human and animal public health. Since its creation,...
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Gender and Social Characteristics of Adolescent Drug Users, France, 2000–2005
Introduction - Recent studies of the adult population suggest that social status influences the use of both legal and illegal psychoactive substances differently among men and women,...
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Women and Addiction in International Literature: Sex, Gender, and Risks.
The international literature on women and addiction distinguishes, on the one hand, between publications dealing with sex—that is, the physiological differences in how psychoactive...
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Trends and Outlook for Kidney Transplantation in France.
Kidney transplants account for the majority of organ transplants performed in our country: 2,423 of the 3,948 transplants performed in 2004 (61.4%). Kidney transplantation improves both...
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Survey of non-infectious disease clusters, France, 1997–2002.
Following investigations conducted by the Environmental Health Department of the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) regarding reports of spatio-temporal clusters of...
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The North-South Gradient in Coronary Morbidity and Mortality in France: Recent Data from French Registries of Ischemic Heart Disease, 1997–2002.
Starting in 1984, the three French registries of ischemic heart disease participated in the international MONICA project (MONItoring trends and determinants in CArdiovascular disease)...
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Certification and coding of medical causes of death.
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Controversy: Are Low Doses of Ionizing Radiation Carcinogenic? Perspectives from experts at Columbia University in New York and the University of California, Berkeley.
