- 2021
- Press releases - 15.06.2021
Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Suicidal Behaviors in Students
How do we predict suicide risk in students? A team of researchers from Inserm and Université de Bordeaux, in collaboration with the Universities of Montreal and McGill in Quebec, have used artificial intelligence to identify a small set of mental health indicators that accurately predict suicidal behavior in students.
- Press releases - 08.06.2021
Television During Meals Linked to Poorer Language Development in Young Children
Between 3 and 6 years of age, children spend an average of around 2 hours a day in front of screens. While many researchers have identified links between screen time and cognitive development in children, few have looked at the context in which screens are used. Inserm researchers at the Center of Research in Epidemiology and Statistics – Université de Paris (CRESS) have identified a link between the television being on all the time during family meals and poorer language development.
- Press releases - 04.06.2021
Inserm Publishes Its Collective Expert Review on the Reduction of Alcohol-Related Harm
Alcohol consumption is both directly and indirectly implicated in the onset of some 60 diseases, making it a major health risk factor. In France, around 43 million people consume alcohol. Faced with its inherent health, social and financial impacts, the country’s Health Directorate and Interdepartmental Mission to Combat Drugs and Addictive Behavior asked Inserm to take stock of the harm related to alcohol and formulate research avenues and measures to tackle it.
- Press releases - 02.06.2021
Interchangeability of COVID 19 mRNA vaccines: start of inclusions for the AP-HP – ARNCombi trial
The aim of the AP-HP – ARNCombi trial is to compare the immunological efficacy of the standard vaccine regimen with two doses of the same mRNA vaccine against Covid-19 with a regimen combining two different mRNA vaccines (one dose of Moderna vaccine after one dose of Pfizer vaccine or a dose of Pfizer vaccine after a dose of Moderna vaccine).
- Press releases - 31.05.2021
Hippurate, a metabolite derived from gut bacteria, is associated with microbiotal diversity
Good gut microbiota function has an impact on our general physical and psychological health. Understanding how the architecture of the microbiota and the function of the bacteria that inhabit it affect the body has become a key research focus in recent years.
- Press releases - 28.05.2021
L’Inserm vous donne rendez-vous tout au long du mois de juin pour la toute première édition de l’événement de culture scientifique « InScience »
L’Inserm vous donne rendez-vous tout au long du mois de juin pour la toute première édition de l’événement de culture scientifique « InScience » qui se déroulera en version numérique, pour s’adapter à la situation sanitaire.
- Press releases - 25.05.2021
La thérapie optogénétique peut partiellement restaurer la vision chez un patient aveugle atteint de rétinopathie pigmentaire.
Une équipe de recherche internationale a mis en évidence que la thérapie optogénétique peut partiellement restaurer la vision chez un patient aveugle atteint de rétinopathie pigmentaire à un stade avancé. La thérapie optogénétique consiste à modifier génétiquement les cellules afin qu’elles produisent des protéines sensibles à la lumière dites « channelrhodopsines » (rhodopsine canal).
- Press releases - 19.05.2021
Regional organization in Ile-de-France and ECMO results in the management of extremely serious respiratory damage caused by Covid-19
The teams of the cardiac and thoracic surgery departments and intensive medicine-intensive care of the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital AP-HP, Sorbonne University and the Inserm, reported the results of the ECMO in the care of patients with extremely serious respiratory damage caused by Covid-19, and the regional organization set up by the Ile-de- France to deal with the pandemic.
- Press releases - 19.05.2021
Many scientific studies have shown the health impacts of air pollution.
Many scientific studies have shown the health impacts of air pollution.
- Press releases - 17.05.2021
Arterial hypertension resistant to drug treatments: an international study demonstrates the blood pressure benefit of endovascular renal denervation by focused ultrasound
Teams from the Georges-Pompidou European Hospital AP-HP, the University of Paris, Inserm and the Presbyterian Hospital in New York carried out work to demonstrate the blood pressure benefit of endovascular renal denervation by focused ultrasound.