In 2015, a study conducted by Pierre Meneton, entitled “Unemployment is associated with high cardiovascular event rate and increased all-cause mortality in middle-aged socially privileged individuals,” was published in the International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health.
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Une étude menée auprès de 327 patients de plus de 65 ans hospitalisés en psychiatrie conduite dans les hôpitaux de l’Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM), et publiée dans la revue Psychopharmacology le 30 avril, souligne le mauvais rapport bénéfice/risque de certains médicaments sur les plus de 65 […]
Modifications of the gut microbiota in chronic inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis) are both the cause and consequence of these internal disorders. This has been shown a team of French researchers from Inserm, INRA[1], UPMC and AP-HP, who describe these mechanisms and propose new therapeutic approaches. Their work is published in Nature Medicine on 9 May 2016.
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Marisol Touraine, ministre de la Santé, annonce qu’en septembre prochain, quatre logos résumant le score nutritionnel de produits alimentaires transformés seront testés pendant trois mois dans 50 grandes surfaces de cinq régions de France. « A l’issue de cette expérimentation, le meilleur logo sera élu pour étiqueter les […]
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Une nouvelle étude, menée en Guinée par des chercheurs de l’Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), de l’Inserm, de l’Institut Pasteur et leurs partenaires guinéens, souligne que le virus Ebola persiste dans le sperme de survivants à l’infection jusqu’à au moins 9 mois après la guérison, […]
An international study, conducted by researchers from the Institute for Development Research (IRD), Inserm and Institut Pasteur and their Guinean partners (Donka University Hospital, Macenta Hospital, National Institute of Public Health, and University of Conakry, confirms that Ebola virus persists in the semen of survivors of the epidemic in Guinea, for up to 9 months after their recovery. These results, which recall the importance of monitoring survivors in order to prevent the risks of new epidemic outbreaks, are published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases on 3 May 2016.
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Selon deux médecins américains, Martin Makary et Michael Daniel, du service de chirurgie de l’université Johns Hopkins à Baltimore (Maryland), les erreurs médicales représentent la troisième cause de décès aux Etats-Unis, derrière les maladies cardiovasculaires et les cancers. Malgré « ses approximations », ce travail constitue « un plaidoyer pour […]
Sorry, this entry is only available in French. Une collaboration internationale, à laquelle participe l’Institut national du cancer (INCa), a permis de réaliser l’analyse génétique complète de 560 tumeurs du sein, rapporte Le Figaro. Le Dr Anne Vincent-Salomon, médecin pathologiste à l’Institut Curie et signataire de l’étude, publiée dans Nature, explique : « Ce séquençage de tout […]
Inserm reports a French study conducted on 750 women which shows that this neglected gynecological disorder significantly increases the risk of miscarriage.
Individual small RNAs are responsible for controlling the expression of gonadoliberin or GnRH (Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone), a neurohormone that controls sexual maturation, the appearance of puberty, and fertility in adults. This has just been demonstrated by the “Development and Plasticity of the Neuroendocrine Brain” team led by Vincent Prévot, Inserm Research Director (Jean-Pierre Aubert Research Centre, Lille). The involvement of microRNAs, transcribed from DNA, occurs around birth, and marks a key step in postnatal development. Failure of these microRNAs to act leads to the disruption or even total cessation of GnRH production by the hypothalamic neurons that synthesise it, and hence to infertility. In the most serious cases, sterility may result. Details of this work in mice are published in the 2 May 2016 issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience.