[Increase of mortality associated with emergency relocation of elderly nursing homes residents following flooding in the Var district, France, 2010].

On June 15th, 2010, the Var district was hit by heavy rain causing floods and mudslides. A nursing home for elderly people was subject to an emergency evacuation and had to relocate 140 residents in other hosting facilities in the region. A prospective cohort study was conducted through two evaluations of the residents' health conditions: before the flood and five months after they had returned in their homes.

[Evaluation of anti-atheromatous properties of calcium channel inhibitors].

Calcium is involved in several biochemical atherogenesis processes and its activity is antagonised in cell and animal experimental models by all classes of slow channel calcium inhibitors. However, the doses required in animals to slow the development of atherosclerotic lesions are above therapeutically acceptable doses in man. The clinical relevance of their anti-atherosclerotic activity in the few clinical studies undertaken is difficult to assess because of the variable criteria of judgment used.