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Here is a tale of rebirth. A brilliant journalist, writer, chess puzzle creator and avid sportsman - Thierry Ott's world came crashing down in 1994 when he was struck with aphasia. After undergoing ...
One has to learn how to heal. And it's not because the medical treatment is considered a success that the patient's journey is over. This documentary looks back on the journey of four people ...
Extraordinary healings that sometimes leave even medical professionals stunned are modern-day miracles for the patients involved. But they're more than just individual remissions - these recoveries ...
Unmasking long COVID's medical maze, as patients tend to grasp at random any remedies that might work. For Caroline, Gloria, and Aurélie, long COVID upended life itself - and mainstream medicine is ...
Scientific fraud is gaining momentum, threatening to erode the very foundations of knowledge. From blatant plagiarism and cooked data to doctored images, some scientists are willing to cheat to ...
Can we still eat meat with a clear conscience? Accused of endangering our health and our planet, meat is no longer on the up-and-up. In Switzerland, the government has updated its climate strategy ...
Veterinarians commit suicide four times more than the rest of the population. According to a recent study in France, burnout is decimating the ranks of the profession. Faced with enormous demands ...
Since childhood, they have been helping their father or mother to cope with daily life. Very early on, these children become natural caregivers and take on heavy responsibilities that are not their ...
Losing a loved one inevitably brings pain. Even more so when the countdown is related to assisted suicide. In Switzerland, assisted dying has more than tripled in ten years. Chantal chose it almost ...
War medicine is about braving death to save lives. Ukrainian health workers wage a relentless struggle to rescue and treat thousands of wounded in extreme conditions. Under the bombs, in the trenches ...
Portraits of the "bio hackers" seek to hijack the biological system at any cost to live better and longer. To make their dreams of eternal youth come true, they will stop at nothing: coaching, ...
Viruses are increasingly being blamed as the triggers of autoimmune diseases in people with genetic predispositions. For example, multiple sclerosis appears to be a rare complication of infection by ...
Who still believes in the good intentions of Big Tobacco? Puffs are getting young people hooked on nicotine. These disposable electronic cigarettes with a fruity taste are the latest products used by ...
Our journalists investigate GLP-1 analogues, the drugs that s said to help anyone shed pounds effortlessly. Touted as miracle drugs for weight loss and type 2 diabetes on social networks, they're ...
Lia, Anouck, Eline and Sébastien suffer from anorexia, bulimia or alternate between the two. Eating disorders are still often taboo, confusing and poorly understood. Yet they are real mental ...
We have a special relationship with our caregivers: the therapeutic relationship. It's a relationship that is studied and learned, and can be either supportive or highly detrimental in treating ...
An estimated 3-4% of adults have ADHD, Attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity. Often, it's the parents of diagnosed children who realize that they, too, have been suffering from ...
How to provide care to prisoners? In this rare investigation, our journalist was able to film the nurses and doctors of La Chaux-de-Fonds prison, Switzerland. Prisons are not designed to be treatment ...
Treating depression or addictions with psychedelics may sound mind-boggling. Yet, more and more mental health professionals in Switzerland and Australia resort to hallucinogenic drugs to cure their ...
Is detransition taboo in the queer community? Why has the debate around gender issues become so controversial? Chloé, Jess, Niki, Fanny and Zora all wanted to transition. Like them, many young ...
Research is now focusing on the microbiota to help treat depression, anxiety disorders or hyperactivity. In case of a porous abdominal wall, microbiota’s billions of micro-organisms are suspected ...
How can ecosystem monitoring be improved to respond quickly to the early stages of a new epidemic? How do scientists scrutinize the hot spots of contamination around the world? This investigation ...
How do children with cancer live and survive the ordeal? Perrine has just turned 3, Sofia and Julia are 14 years old, Ilona has just turned 17. In addition to having undergone chemotherapy ...
How did a mother turn from a helpless victim to a whistleblower in the Depakine health scandal? This anti-epileptic drug, produced by French Big Pharma giant Sanofi, is notoriously known to have ...
Can you be a man without getting an erection? Whether caused by anxiety or a medical reason, erectile dysfunction affects many men, including youth. Because of shame or fear of disappointing others, ...
At the beginning of 2022, the international nursing home operator ORPEA, listed on the stock exchange, generated negative headlines around the world for a scandal of abuse to the elderly in its ...
What is amnesia and what is it like when our memories are replaced by a black hole? Amnesia can occur at any time. Shirley and Daniela have learnt it the hard way. Nicolas only came to realize the ...
Is Liraglutide therapy the definitive solution that will put a stop to the worldwide obesity epidemic? To this day, overweight and obese people still have to fight hard for acceptance and access to ...
When one learns, often in adulthood, that one was born by sperm donation in medically assisted procreation, the news falls like a bombshell. Thousands of people learn that their father is not who ...
Will we ever live to be 150? And in good health? What do scientists at the forefront of anti-aging research promise us? Will the elixir of youth sought by all pharmaceutical laboratories come from ...
The gigantic business of food supplements stems from a desire shared by us all : that of boosting one's immune system in order to better cope with illness. But the evidence of effectiveness of food ...
In 2015, the WHO classified meat as "probably carcinogenic". What does the research say today? Can meat quality make a difference, both in terms of health and ecology? What is the value of age-old ...
Parental burn-out is poorly diagnosed and often hidden by parents overwhelmed with shame and guilt. It may seem similar to depression, but it initially affects only the family sphere. Stress and ...
Scary fact : 2.2 billion people, i.e. 40% of the world's population, are considered overweight or obese. In Mexico, the figure skyrockets to 76%. Junk food plays the main role in this notorious ...
'There is no cure for who you are'. This is how a psychiatrist sums up how far we've come in recent years with regard to gender dysphoria, i.e. the permanent identification with the other gender and ...
More and more teenagers want get an Apollo body fast. They are inspired by models on the web and the social networks, from people who’ve increased their muscle mass fast, and they sometimes injure ...
Does voluntourism do more harm than good? Teaching English in Nepal, counting elephants in Botswana; paid volunteer missions abroad are very popular with young people. Many of them, full of ...
This documentary tells the story of a metamorphosis. Of a return to life thanks to science, after years of suffering. Yves Auberson was diagnosed with Parkinson's at age 35. 17 years later, his life ...
Why has autism been under-diagnosed in women for decades? Some autistic people have very high IQs. When they are women, their invisibility is increased tenfold because of a paternalistic culture. But ...
They're young and have already botoxed them-selves up the wazoo! For the first time in the his-tory of cosmetic surgery, 18-34 year olds out-number 50 year olds in resorting to surgery acts. Relayed ...
How to account for the slow transition toward healthier agriculture as the overwhelming scientific evidence of the toxicity of pesticides is stacking up? Three quarters of flying insects have now ...
What goes on in the mind of small children when confronted all day with masked faces? Since the introduction of face masks in the public space, we communicate with half-faces. This lack of ...
Breathing is the most necessary act of life. Yet pollution and climate change threaten this basic right for all. As temperatures rise, pollinations that used to occur only in spring are now also ...
Are corpses just like any other commodity that can be sold with impunity? Donating one's body to science after death allows medical research and the training of surgeons to progress. But the ...
How to manage and clean up the toxic dumps and polluted industrial sites that threaten the quality of our drinking water? The river Rhone waters flowing from Alpine glaciers at above 2,000 metres is ...
The use of smart drugs among students is constantly on the rise. What are the risks and benefits of brain boosters on one's health? How can they help your brain make you a better performer? How ...
Every day, we breathe and drink more and more microplastics than we'd ever have wanted. From the tires of our cars to our clothes and cosmetics, microplastics are everywhere. They are even found in ...
The idea of transplanting animal organs into patients to make up for the lack of donors is resurfacing. But how far can we manipulate the living and exploit animals to save human lives? At the ...
Climate change is already a reality. Because of higher temperatures new viruses are emerging that put the most fragile among us at risk. The south of France has been affected by increasingly violent ...
Bypass surgery (RYGB) is the most practised surgery for people suffering from severe obesity. But this solution that guarantees an impressive weight loss also brings about deep upheavals in the ...
Ancestral healing therapies resist all scientific progress and healers are overwhelmed by patients requests. By helping us mobilize our self-healing abilities, healers sometimes seem to work ...
Tens of thousands of people across Europe have lost loved ones, sometimes several family members, during the first wave of the coronavirus. Now they are holding their government and health ...
Is medical tourism really worth the risk? Many people faced with prohibitive fees for cosmetic surgery in their home country turn to specialized agencies that manage everything – but the unexpected ...
As if coming close to death through a NDE wasn't enough, some NDE experiencers come back to life with what they describe as extraordinary abilities. In addition to their disturbing stories, the ...
What if there was an afterlife? What if the disturbing accounts of patients who have had a near death experience were more serious than the skeptics think? Since the 1970s, faced with countless ...
Panic attacks trigger serious physical reactions without any real imminent danger. However, if left untreated, they can become very severe and disabling for those suffering from them. How can ...
The number of patients addicted to opioids is skyrocketing in Europe, even though their long-term effectiveness is much debated. The American crisis has raised awareness and many doctors are ...
5 x 45' - The pediatric ward at Lausanne University Hospital treats everything from minor ailments to serious chronic illnesses. Medical teams and families work together to offer hope and comfort ...
Cancer, epilepsy, diabetes: these devastating diseases are mobilizing medical staff around the globe. Today, some researchers are getting help from unusual collaborators: animals. Thanks to their ...
They have received one of the best technical and medical training in the world. However, in the field, paramedics will have to deal with psychosocial situations that do not require emergency kits or ...
Our journalists investigate into the controversial biobank sector. In 2019, 250,000 European families who thought they were protecting their children from rare genetic diseases by entrusting their ...
Overweight or hypertension are not randomly distributed in our cities. On the contrary, they cluster in specific neighbourhoods. Geomedicine proves that individual responsibility is not everything. ...
Being exposed to too much screen time early on may cause serious consequences on the development of preschool-aged children. Delayed language acquisition and behavioural ssues are regularly observed ...
Where exactly did the coronavirus come from? From an exotic animal captured for the Wuhan pet market? From the P4 lab incriminated by conspiracy theories? Did African pangolins imported into China by ...
They are the new slaves of our societies, whose ageing demography is one of our major challenges. Working 24 hours a day, six days a week for low wages including board and room allowance, migrants ...
The therapeutic interventions of Vincent Humbert's case, in France, has left its mark and highlighted the importance of advance directives. This signed document can be unsettling as it details what ...
Eating disorders are constantly on the rise. Unlike obesity, binge eating disorder does not involve any compensatory strategy after overeating. This morbid passion for food led the French tv host Guy ...
What is the daily life of the nurses who spend their lives saving the lives of others? How do they manage deal with the stress of every moment, and the lack of time that sometimes prevents them from ...
Could music be used to strengthen our brains? A major neuroscience study, conducted between Geneva and Hanover, purports to prove the incredible benefits of music on our health. By using imaging to ...
They present themselves as "shamans", "medicine men" with mysterious healing powers. Some of them do not hesitate to take advantage of gullible Europeans to thrive on a juicy business where therapy, ...
Antibiotic resistance is, according to the WHO, one of the most serious threats to global health. Multidrug resistant bacteria modify our microbiota and the environment. They are responsible for the ...
A year ago, the global revelation of the "Implant Files" showed how Health authorities across the globe have failed to protect millions of patients from poorly tested implants. Since then, the ...
Have you ever wondered who will take care of your body after your death? A man? A woman? Maybe you don't care! Anyway, until now, you didn't really have a choice in the almost exclusively male world ...
Early puberty has become a very worrying public health issue of late. Our journalists headed to Copenhagen, where endocrinologist Anders Juul has been documenting the phenomenon for years. Pr. Juul ...
How can we combat the sedentary lifestyle that is slowly killing our society? Sitting still for too long is now a major public health issue. Nearly 70% of the population is reportedly weakened by ...
Why are millennials the least sexually active generation in decades? The sexual recession, documented by sexologists for several years, is cause for concern. The blame lies with too much pressure ...
As more countries are rushing to prepare the commercial launch of 5G, the unchartered territory for 5G mobile networks has become a concern for a growing proportion of the population. However, 5G ...
What if hypnosis could revolutionize hospital care ? The natural method that used to be controversial makes it possible to drastically reduce the dose of chemical anesthetics. In Yverdon, ...
France has decided to stop reimbursing drugs for Alzheimer's disease. For numerous medical studies show that these molecules have a very disappointing effect or no effect at all on patients. But how ...
Although LSD is associated with the hippies of the 70s, the drug was actually discovered in Switerland... The first psychedelic trip occured at Sandoz in Basel in 1943! The chemist who discovered the ...
Scientists have now found the missing evidence proving that nature does heal humans. Whether in the Japanese forest bathing or in the therapeutic garden of the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, ...
Faced with the growing success of vaporizers, the tobacco empire strikes back. With IQOS, Glo, Ploom, etc., cigarette companies have found a way to sell both tobacco and electronic devices. But are ...
What are the therapeutic benefits of fasting? Clinics and wellness centres offering cures are multiplying! Intermittent fasting has become increasingly popular of late. But how does it compare to the ...
Will we ever be immortal? Is living better, healthier, longer lives what science and technology have in store for us in the short run? Paraplegics can now start walking again thanks to exoskeletons ...
More and more people are immersing themselves in the cold to benefit their health. How could exposing one's body to such cold temperatures could be beneficial? Diving in an icy lake or entering ...
Can living in an overly sanitized environment bad be detrimental to health? Are we overburdening our immune system by chasing germs from our environment? Our journalists investigate.
It only takes a split second to become a paraplegic. These dramatic accidents often affect young people whose lives are then irreparably disrupted. How can one apprehend the future when one finds ...
It is estimated that one in five people will experience a depressive episode in their lifetime. If no one is safe, women are twice as affected as men. Women and men agreed to talk openly about the ...
Why has the number of caesareans exploded in the past ten years? Is medical necessity always at the origin of the surgeon's decision to operate? Today, the growing number of health conditions related ...
Born on the edge of the Amazon, ayahuasca is the new buzzword. Horribly bitter, emetic and purgative, this plant decoction associated with shamanism is more and more popular under northern latitudes. ...
The incidence of chronic IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) has exploded worldwide. Why? According to researchers, the growing amounts of additives used in processed foods bear the brunt of the blame ...
At age 20, Delphine had a car accident and has been suffering chronic ankle pain ever since. His multiple ankle fractures were mysteriously not diagnosed immediately at the hospital. It was only ...
They heal burns, eczema and warts, cure shingles and allergies. They're swamped by demand for their services, from patients who have often exhausted the possibilities afforded by conventional ...
This report tackles vaccine scepticism, a movement prompting a growing number of parents not to have their children vaccinated. Leaving behind mistrust and the sterile debate on the pros and cons ...
Louis, Jeanne and Agnès are 102, 104 and 105 years old. How did they live so long and stay healthy and young at heart? Our journalists travelled to the province of Ogliastra, Sardinia, one of the ...
How to allow end of life patients to die at home but in an institution? Tara's home, in Switzerland, offers patients and their families personalized support with attention and consideration that are ...
Acute mountain sickness is as much a problem for experienced alpine climbers and mountaineers as for tourists on a trekking tour. Symptoms range from simple headaches with nausea to complications ...
This report looks at the green gold rush of legal cannabis, or CBD. Since becoming freely available in Switzerland, the medicinal virtues of CBD – anti-inflammatory, painkiller, stress reliever – ...
What are the dangers associated with the thousands of chemicals found in our daily cosmetics? Endocrine disruptors, suspected of causing many diseases, have been identified as major polluters. We now ...
They're between 18 and 30 years old and their youth has been blighted by mental illness. Schizophrenic, bipolar, depressed, Geeti, Jonathan, Alexandre and Manon are all patients at an outpatient ...
How can you recover from the cancer that'sturned your life upside down when you're afraid it will get you fired? Our journalists interviewed four patients struggling to cope in just that situation. ...
Discover keto and low carb-high fat (LCHF), two diets that are about to shatter traditional nutritional recommendations. The research is unequivocal: it's sugar that makes you sick, notfat! Diabetes, ...
Let's take look back on the history of cardiac transplantation with Swiss expert René Prêtre. How has the life of heart transplant patients really changed over the last 50 years? The tragic story ...
Over 200 million women are living with the consequences of female genital cutting, a horrific practice that is not limited to remote villages in distant places. As European countries institute ...
The clitoris is the least well known and the least studied organ of the human body. It wasn't even included in anatomy books until the 19th century, as scientists had realized that it didn't play an ...
Telling your name, answering the phone or going out for shopping can turn into a nightmare for stutters. For Morgane, Philippe and Estéban, the most casual of conversations is an ordeal. Are ...
In 2005, the documentary "An Affair Of The Heart" filmed every step of six-year-old Lorena's life-saving heart transplant. Today, Lorena is 17. A fragile young woman, she speaks about life ...
Learn all about two extreme diets that have nothing in common through this portrait of two families: in this corner, the Paleos, who eat meat at every meal; in that corner, the Vegans, who boycott ...
How much would you pay to live six months longer? Once a taboo subject, the soaring cost of endof-life health care and treatment has become amatter for urgent discussion - the last year of life costs ...
Thanks to social egg freezing, or oocyte cryopreservation, women can now delay motherhood. I'll have a baby if, with whom and when I want to! could become the rallying call of an entire generation ...
Several recent food scandals have made consumers increasingly cautious about what they eat. And public health services are constantly hammering home the message, “Eat well to stay healthy.” So ...
Through the overwhelming testimony of the parents of Laurent Kremer, the 20-year-old young man who was one of the six victims of the Liège massacre, this survey tackles organ donation from the ...
While tobacco prevention has reduced the number of smokers, youth continue heavily to fall into tobacco addiction. The industry is thus doing all it can to seduce this strategic age group. ...
Are we putting our health at risk by constantly bathing in the electromagnetic radiation of relay antennas, smartphones, wifi and connected objects? The medical and scientific communities is deeply ...
What happens to the anatomical waste used in hospital medicine? Placenta, biopsy, biological samples: who do they belong to? How are these tissues stored or disposed of and what is their legal and ...
Half of the violent deaths are considered natural deaths and remain unnoticed by the justice system! Many accidents, suicides or even murders are never brought to justice as they are wrongly ...
Is burn-out to the twenty-first century what consumption was to the nineteenth? It affects all occupations and jobs, with almost one in four employees feeling stressed at work and exhausted at a cost ...
With over 4 million patients developing a health care acquired infection. every year in Europe, hospital-acquired conditions have become a major public health problem. How can such infections ...
What is it like to live with endometriosis? Twoyoung women speak about the distress causedby this complex disease while a medical scandalbrews in the wings. With its controversial recommended doses ...
The life expectancy of people with Down's syndrome has dramatically increased over the century. Advances in medicine have made it possible to move from a life expectancy of 9 years in 1900 to 35 ...
Prenatal screening for Trisomy 21 is a technological advance that also presents parents with an extremely difficult ethical decision: should the pregnancy be terminated? Nine out of ten couples opt ...
Mindfulness meditation is the new trend that is about to convince official medicine. Neuroscience studies now prove that meditating can transform our brain. Well-being programs with a heavy emphasis ...
Do you ask your doctor to prove he’s qualifiedwhen you show up for an appointment? Of coursenot. And yet, bogus doctors exist. In this report,the victims of medical charlatans describe theirordeals ...
