- 2015
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Press releases - 03.02.2015
Osteoporosis : balancing bone formation and degradation
Researchers from the CNRS, Inserm and the Université de Montpellier and Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Étienne have developed a new approach for preventing the destructive activity of osteoclasts without affecting their viability.
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What's on? - 03.02.2015
Wednesday 4 February 2015: World Cancer Day
World Cancer Day takes place this Wednesday, 4 February. This international campaign is aimed at informing and sensitising the general public, as well as health professionals, about cancer prevention, screening, and management. According to a recent survey by Ipsos/French Foundation for Cancer Research[2] cancer is the disease most feared by French people today (86%), ahead […]
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Press releases - 02.02.2015
Road safety: presentation of the French government’s next action plan
In 2011, Inserm confirmed the hazard associated with using a telephone while driving in the collective expert report “Téléphone et Sécurité Routière.”
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What's on? - 02.02.2015
Road safety: presentation of the French government’s next action plan
Bernard Cazeneuve, French Minister of the Interior, presented a plan of action to address all causes of lack of road safety on Monday 26 January 2015. Comprising 26 measures, the plan is aimed at sensitising, alerting and educating road users, combating serious breaches of road safety, and making France’s infrastructure safer.[1] In 2014, according to […]
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Press releases - 28.01.2015
Survival of very premature infants is improving in France: First results of the EPIPAGE 2 study
This study is aimed at assessing the survival of infants born between 22 and 34 weeks’ gestation, and their subsequent outcomes.
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Press releases - 23.01.2015
Brain and spatial attention: Can the left hemisphere compensate for a lesion in the right hemisphere?
Dr Paolo Bartolomeo and his collaborators have published the results of their research on “unilateral spatial neglect,” also known by the term “hemineglect,” in the journal Brain.
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Press releases - 22.01.2015
Influenza: France crosses epidemic threshold
According to the weekly bulletin of the Sentinelles network, the incidence of influenza crossed the epidemic threshold last week
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What's on? - 22.01.2015
Influenza: France crosses epidemic threshold
According to the weekly bulletin of the Sentinelles network, the incidence of influenza crossed the epidemic threshold last week, with 231 cases detected in general practice per 100,000 inhabitants. A figure that exceeds the epidemic threshold (179 cases per 100,000 inhabitants). At regional level, the highest rates of incidence were found in: Limousin, Auvergne and […]
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Press releases - 19.01.2015
Elucidating the origin of MDR tuberculosis strains
A study has focused on the evolutionary history of the mycobacterium that causes tuberculosis, and more specifically on the Beijing lineage associated with the spread of multidrug resistant forms of the disease in Eurasia.
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News in brief - 19.01.2015
Segmented filamentous bacteria, partners in intestinal immunity, finally cultured in vitro !
Segmented filamentous bacteria (SFB) are bacteria from the Clostridiaceae family that colonize the intestines of many species, likely including humans, without causing disease; they live in symbiosis with epithelial cells and are involved in the maturation of intestinal immunity. Despite the vital role of SFB in establishing gut immune homeostasis in vivo in mice, scientists, […]