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News in brief - 17.07.2015
Coffee colour…
Birthmarks, café au lait spots—although usually harmless (over 10% of the population has one or two), the presence of more than 5 of them in a child can conceal a hereditary disease, neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). This is one of the most common genetic diseases (affecting 1 in 3,000 individuals). Until now, the molecular mechanisms associated […]
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News in brief - 10.07.2015
Septicaemia: the kidney protected by white blood cells
Septicaemia is a general inflammatory reaction secondary to an infection. Bacteria discharge into the blood, leading to fever, an increased heart rate, a drop in blood pressure, an increased breathing rate, and a pronounced fatigue of the body. Septicaemia is associated with significant mortality as it effects all of the organs. In France, it is […]
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Press releases - 09.07.2015
One in every two people bring back multi-resistant enterobacteria after a trip in a tropical zone
A large-scale collaborative study revealed the acquisition of multi-resistant enterobacteria (MRE) in one in two travellers returning from a stay in a country situated in a tropical region.
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Press releases - 08.07.2015
Production of iPS cells: discovery of the 5th element
Two teams of researchers from Inserm, CNRS, Centre Léon Bérard and Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University have discovered a molecule that may favour the production of these induced stem cells.
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Press releases - 07.07.2015
Vaccines: practices and hesitancy among general physicians in France
At population level, vaccines contribute to reducing mortality associated with infectious diseases such as measles, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B or bacterial meningitis. The community general physician, at the centre of this preventive strategy, remains the main source of information for families. In an article published in the journal Ebiomedecine, Pierre Verger (Inserm Unit 912, “Economics and Social Sciences Applied to Health and Analysis of Medical Information – SESSTIM”) and his collaborators present and analyse the attitudes and practices of over 1,500 general physicians in France, in a context of distrust toward vaccines.
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Press releases - 03.07.2015
Climate change and health: what are the implications?
To present the state of the art on the knowledge regarding the impact of climate change on health, and future research in this area, Aviesan (the French National Alliance for Life and Health Sciences) and Inserm (the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research) are organising a mini-symposium in conjunction with the UNESCO conference.
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Press releases - 29.06.2015
Heatwave 2015: Be careful of the abnormally high death rate
These remarkably high temperatures (around 40 °C) can have particularly harmful consequences on the health.
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What's on? - 29.06.2015
Heatwave 2015: Be careful of the abnormally high death rate
From Tuesday 30th June, France will enter into an exceptional heatwave for this time of year.[1]. These remarkably high temperatures (around 40 °C) can have particularly harmful consequences on the health: tiredness, dehydration, heat stroke, respiratory, heart, metabolic problems, etc. If, for the most part, these inconveniences are minor, they are lethal in certain cases, […]
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Press releases - 25.06.2015
Unable to cope with uncertainty: the gateway to psychosis?
Our world turns out to be more or less predictable, and our brain has to adapt to this uncertainty to make the best possible choices in any situation. This is the subject that attracted Fabien Vinckier and Raphaël Gaillard, researchers at St Anne’s Hospital, Inserm and Paris Descartes University, in collaboration with Mathias Pessiglione, an Inserm researcher at the Brain and Spinal Cord Institute at Pitié–Salpêtrière Hospital, AP-HP, and Paul Fletcher, from the University of Cambridge in Great Britain
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Press releases - 19.06.2015
Cases of tuberculosis in Limoges, what does this mean for vaccination?
Against this background, Inserm researchers Annick Guimezanes and Marion Mathieu have replied as objectively as possible to the questions everyone wonders about in the 3rd popular science book in the Choc Santé collection: “Vaccination: Agression or Protection?”