Les polluants atmosphériques augmentent non seulement le risque de cancer du poumon, mais ils pourraient aussi être un facteur de risque du cancer du sein. C’est ce que révèle une synthèse de la littérature internationale. Selon les données disponibles, environ 1700 cas de cancers du sein seraient attribuables chaque année en France à l’exposition aux polluants atmosphériques.
Pour faire face à la pandémie de Covid-19, mieux comprendre le virus et accompagner la prise en charge des maladies, les scientifiques de l’Inserm sont plus que jamais mobilisés.
Back at the start of the pandemic, Inserm, through its REACTing consortium, set up Discovery: a European clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of four antiviral drugs repurposed for the treatment of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 (remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir and interferon beta-1a). In parallel, the World Health Organization (WHO) set up Solidarity, a major consortium of clinical trials also aimed at testing the efficacy of these four treatments. Discovery then joined forces with Solidarity to help supply it with robust and rigorous data.
A team of researchers from Inserm, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes and Barcelona Institute for Global Health has shown that prenatal and postnatal exposure to various chemical pollutants is linked to decreased respiratory function in children. These results, based on the concept of the exposome (defined as the totality of an individual’s environmental exposures from conception until old age), were obtained as part of the European HELIX project and have been published in The Lancet Planetary Health.
Le 26 novembre 2018 est publié le nouveau rapport Euro-Peristat, projet européen coordonné par l’Inserm, mis en place depuis 2000, et qui rassemble des statistiques de 31 pays sur la santé périnatale en 2015. La comparaison de la France par rapport à ses voisins conduit à un bilan contrasté, avec en particulier une situation maitrisée dans la pratique des césariennes, mais une situation moins favorable pour la mortalité des enfants et la consommation de tabac, là où de nombreux pays observent une amélioration.
The respective classifications of the European Patent Office (EPO) and France’s National Industrial Property Institute (INPI), which have just published their annual rankings for 2017, have confirmed Inserm’s ability to innovate. Inserm placed first among patent applicants in the pharmaceutical sector for the second year in a row, yet again leading the rankings of European applicants in this sector, ahead of both industrial manufacturers and academic institutions. Furthermore, the Institute was in 30th place – having moved up five places – in the INPI’s “patents in all fields” ranking, confirming its research teams’ excellence and productivity in innovation.
Born too soon, very premature infants are particularly vulnerable and need appropriate care. The European project EPICE (Effective Perinatal Intensive Care in Europe) examines how medical practices based on scientific evidence are incorporated into the care of these neonates[1]. The study, coordinated by Inserm and published in The British Medical Journal, highlights the underuse of four effective practices for improving their survival and long-term health, and estimates its impact on mortality and morbidity.
Des scientifiques provenant de 6 pays, réunis au sein du projet ENS@T-HT mettent en commun leur expertise afin d’améliorer le diagnostic et la prise en charge thérapeutique de l’hypertension artérielle primaire et secondaire par une approche axée sur les « omiques ». Le projet ENS@T-HT, coordonné par Maria-Christina Zennaro, Directrice de recherche à l’Inserm (Centre de recherche Cardiovasculaire de Paris), a été officiellement lancé ce mois-ci à Paris et durera 5 ans.
The French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) is currently the leading biomedical research organisation in Europe, and plays a key role in developing European research. To mark its 50th anniversary, Inserm wanted to assess the perceptions of Europeans regarding biomedical research.
Researchers have made a step forward in the understanding of how eating behaviours and preferences form in early life.