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Apparent age of the elderly : a diagnostic tool for primary care physicians?

To estimate the health of their elderly patients, healthcare professionals have various clinical tools at their disposal: geriatric assessment scales, health questionnaires and frailty scores. However, although these tests are appropriate to a medical context, they are more difficult for primary care ...

23 Apr 2018 | Public health

Repurposing Drugs to Fight the Flu: a Phase 2 Clinical Trial for FLUNEXT

(Français) L’équipe VirPath du CIRI, en collaboration avec le laboratoire du Dr Guy Boivin (chaire de recherche du Canada sur les virus émergents, a développé et validé une stratégie innovante qui consiste à identifier et exploiter directement des échantillons infectieux prélevés cliniquement, ...

01 Mar 2018 | Immunology, inflammation, infectiology and microbiology Public health Health technologies

What is the Origin of Human Social Intelligence?

In humans, "Theory of Mind" is the ability to understand others' mental states: what they think, what they feel, what they desire, what they love, etc. It plays a major role in human social interactions. ...

22 Dec 2017 | Cell biology, development and evolution Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry

Drug overconsumption in pregnant women in France

Pregnancy is a sensitive time, particularly in the first months. Pregnant women are therefore strongly advised to limit their use of medicines, as some of their effects are yet poorly known. Nevertheless, a recent study conducted by Inserm researchers reveals that pregnant ...

02 Nov 2017 | Public health

Benefits of Unit-Dose Antibiotic Sale

Between November 2014 and November 2015, a study conducted by Inserm (Unit 912 SESSTIM – Economic and Social Sciences, Health Systems and Medical Informatics), Université Aix-Marseille, IRD, CNRS and the PACA Regional Health Observatory, trialed the unit-dose dispensing of certain antibiotics across ...

03 Oct 2017 | Public health

Is Our Stubbornness Caused by Confirmation Bias?

The way in which people make decisions can sometimes seem reckless or even totally irrational. One explanation for this behavior is that humans tend to prefer information that confirms their beliefs and overlook that which contradicts them. This is a phenomenon called ...

14 Sep 2017 | Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry

Osteoarthritis and metabolic disease: a “joint” therapeutic target?

Pour la première fois, des chercheurs du laboratoire de recherche « Ingénierie moléculaire et physiopathologie articulaire » (Cnrs/Université de Lorraine) et du laboratoire « Défaillances cardiovasculaires aiguë et chronique » (Inserm/Université de Lorraine) à Nancy, ont décrit le développement spontané de ...

21 Jun 2017 | Circulation, metabolism, nutrition