In 1936, Lemierre described a series of deaths resulting from sepsis caused by a Gram-negative anaerobic bacterium: "Bacillus funduliformis." This disease primarily affects healthy...

Diphtheria seemed to have disappeared from Europe. Now it has returned to our doorstep, just a two-hour flight from Paris, in all the countries of the former Soviet Union on the one...

The reported data cover a 12-year period from 1983 to 1994. The epidemiological surveillance covers serologically confirmed syphilis, gonorrhea—which is most often diagnosed clinically...

In collaboration with the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), the Paris Institute of Forensic Medicine conducted a study aimed at improving understanding...

Thyroid cancers are very rare before the age of 15: they account for less than 1% of childhood cancers. An analysis of cases recorded from 1978 to 1997 by French cancer registries...

Background - Infectious encephalitis is a rare but serious condition whose cause is rarely identified. Method - We conducted a prospective, multicenter descriptive study in mainland...

It is tempting to use the Handicap-Santé survey, conducted in France in 2008 and 2009, to estimate the proportion of the general population affected by "mental disability," and to...

Objectives: To describe the medical conditions, place of death, hospitalizations, and use of inpatient palliative care (SPH) in the year preceding death. Methods: Individuals covered...

Introduction Accidents in daily life (ADL) represent a major public health issue. Each year in mainland France, they result in more than 21,000 deaths and several hundred thousand...