News and facts about French healthcare.

French urologists avoid saying the word “impotence” at any cost, they prefer calling this condition “erectile dysfunction” or “erectile disorder”, which suggests the inability to obtain and maintain an erection sufficiently rigid for satisfactory sexual activity. Read this article to learn everything about the treatment of erectile dysfu..

For the first time in the world, a total ankle replacement in the outpatient setting has been performed in Lyon (France). On Friday, September 19, 2016, a team of specialists of our partner clinic in Lyon performed a total ankle replacement in the outpatient setting for the first time in the world. The patient entered the operating room at 10:00 and left it at 11:15...

This multidisciplinary clinic is located on eight hectares in Le Mans. Since 2008, the clinic offers a complex of health services: The MMSC: Medicine, surgery, psychiatry, emergency medical care The maternity hospital and gynecology department The center of care and rehabilitation in outpatient conditions The Medical House for the care and nursing of the ill people ..

Founded in 1844, the clinic is a nonprofit organization. As a historical institution of the Lyon region of France, the clinic combines traditional hospitality and modern technologies, responding to challenges of diseases and suffering every day. The clinic offers a full range of medical services with the involvement of health professionals: doctors, surgeons, and paramedi..

Location and accommodations: The center has the opportunity to accommodate 19 patients in specially equipped places that allow performing about 13 000 sessions annually. The medications are prepared at the Department of Succenturiate Cytotoxin Substances. There are 33 beds on the three floors, 14 beds of which constitute the hospitalizing services for palliative care. Th..

An essential part of every medical research in clinical trials – the tests of a health product for humans. They represent a chance for patients to have early access to innovative treatment, as well as an indispensable opportunity for the health professionals to get expert knowledge of this treatment and improve the quality of care. The purpose of each clinical trial..

Needle-free blood test, HIV self-testing kit, artificial lung… From the operating room to the daily testing, medical technologies never stop developing, and more and more important medical innovations are being made. Read this article to learn the recent breakthrough medical innovations that could (and will!) revolutionize our lives. HIV self-testing kit This inno..

Our patients often ask us about the responsibility of health professionals and health institutions in France. Some people even ask to sign a contract with a clinic. However, medical responsibility in France is a verbal commitment which is proved by a simple payment receipt. The responsibility of all medical staff and medical facilities is set in French law. INTRODUCT..

“The day of check-up in France, the reason why I and my mother Tamara went on a French vacation to the city of Le Mans, was the most memorable one of the entire trip, and full of good news. On the D-day, I had to forget about my morning jogging routine and traditional light breakfast after it, as I had to arrive at the clinic on an empty stomach. The clinic is a hug..

An anonymous review of plastic surgery in France experience. “Like 32 million of my fellow American women, I have been thinking about getting plastic surgery since I realized that my breasts had stopped growing when I was about 21 years old. It wasn’t like it was an issue that dominated my life but I just have always had that perfectionist side in me that was ..

In our modern life, we are so used to the comfort of life – electricity, the Internet, medicaments for any disease, that we take it for granted. However, all the medical achievements come from the hard work of many determined scientists. And let’s not underestimate the role of the French medical scientists. René Laennec – the father of pathologica..

Have you tried medical tourism in France? Do you know how progressive French medicine is? Lyon has stunned the world once by the simultaneous transplant of both hands and forearms. In Paris, they have successfully operated on the spinal cord of the embryo, in Grenoble, the world’s first implantation of a cardiac pacemaker was made without a probe, in Toulouse, ..