[Assessment of job stress after implementation of prevention measures in a pension fund].

Aim: Work stress and its impact on health have been widely studied. However, very few studies have examined the effect of implementing measures designed to reduce work stress, a risk factor for psychological health problems. The purpose of this study was to fill this gap.

[Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA), yet how much damage?].

Screening for prostate cancer has been widely promoted since the early 1990s despite the lack of evidence of its efficacy. The US Preventive Services Task Force recommended against PSA screening because there is sufficient evidence that the harms of screening outweigh its benefits. Yet more than half of French doctors are in favor of screening and the use of PSA assays continue to grow, by 4.

Hepatocellular carcinoma and industrial epidemics.

Worldwide, the burden of the non viral causes of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is usually underestimated. Clearly industrial goods, tobacco, alcohol and processed foods are the agents of new epidemics in modern times which far outscore the burden of infectious agents on morbidity and mortality. Smoking, a dose-related contributing factor for HCC, receives too little attention in clinical practice.