[Physical activities and sport; implications for health and society].

The practice of physical and sporting activities (PSA) throughout life is now known to increase healthy life expectancy, to delay the onset of dependency, and to be an effective complementary treatment for many disorders, particularly obesity and disability. The notion of a "sedentary death syndrome " [SeDS] has been evoked on the other side of the Atlantic. Although the beneficial effects of PSA have long been known, statistical analyses have only recently confirmed at the group level what was often disputed at the individual level.

[Sport and health].

The report of the National Academy of Medicine named "Sport and Health" underlines the medical, social and educational dimensions of sporting activities. Various kinds of sporting practices are described: they concern the approximately 7,000 high level athletes, around 8,000 professional (licensed) sportsmen, and sporting club members (approximately 15 millions people). A large number of amateurs do not practice in any structure and therefore are neither managed in their activities nor medically followed.

[Short treatment of hepatic amebiasis by tinidazole. Apropos of 10 cases].

Ten cases of hepatic amoebiasis are notified in Bamako during 14 months among hospitalized adults. The diagnosis has aimed from clinical signs, specific antibodies seen through hemagglutination and echography. These patients are treated by tinidazole: 2 g/day in unique dose during 3-9 days.