- 2015
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What's on? - 19.06.2015
Cases of tuberculosis in Limoges, what does this mean for vaccination?
While tuberculosis (BCG) vaccination is no longer mandatory in France, five new cases of tuberculosis were recorded in Limoges this week. This disease, far from having disappeared, causes 5,000 new cases of illness each year, and is responsible for 700 deaths. These latest cases have restarted the debate about vaccination: Should we get vaccinated? Should […]
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Press releases - 19.06.2015
The small intestine is involved in chronic inflammation in obese people
Researchers from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Inserm, Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) and Paris Descartes University, in collaboration with clinician researchers from the Paris Public Hospitals (AP-HP), have just shown that severe obesity is accompanied by inflammation of the small intestine and a strengthening of the immune defences in that area.
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Press releases - 18.06.2015
Autism: the value of an integrated approach to diagnosis
Researchers at Insermhave combined three clinical, neurophysiological and genetic approaches in order to better understand the brain mechanisms that cause autism
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Press releases - 18.06.2015
A new therapeutic approach for rare and serious kidney diseases
A team at the Paris Cardiovascular Research Centre (PARCC) (Paris Descartes University / Inserm / AP-HP) proposes a new approach for the treatment of serious kidney diseases.
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Press releases - 16.06.2015
binôme édition #6 at the Avignon Festival
The les sens des mots company, Inserm (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research) and ICM (Brain and Spinal Cord Institute) are pleased to invite you to a show presented during binôme édition #6 at the Avignon Festival:
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Press releases - 16.06.2015
Restoring natural immunity against cancers
Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and Inserm have successfully increased the infiltration of immune cells into tumors, thus inducing the immune system to block tumor growth.
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Press releases - 16.06.2015
BACCALAURÉAT 2015: D-1
Starting on Wednesday 17 June, nearly 700,000 candidates, from 13 to 93 years of age[1], will be taking the baccalauréat state examination.
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What's on? - 16.06.2015
BACCALAURÉAT 2015: D-1
Starting on Wednesday 17 June, nearly 700,000 candidates, from 13 to 93 years of age[1], will be taking the baccalauréat state examination. These exam periods, often synonymous with stress and fatigue, are a tough ordeal for our mind and body. On the eve of the written examinations, your notification to attend, bag and piece of identification […]
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Press releases - 09.06.2015
Impact of environmental exposure to insecticides on the cognitive development of 6 year old children
In an article , researchers from Inserm in association with the Laboratory for Developmental and Educational Psychology, LPDE (, provide new evidence of neurotoxicity in humans from pyrethroid insecticides, which are found in a wide variety of products and uses.
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Press releases - 08.06.2015
Discovery of an anti-inflammatory molecule produced by gut bacteria
Researchers at INRA, INSERM, AP-HP, and UPMC have just discovered a new protein with anti-inflammatory properties, which has been named MAM (microbial anti-inflammatory molecule)