The physicians are not given enough information about the adverse effects of drugs during presentations made by medical sales representatives from pharmaceutical companies. And yet, these same physicians are willing to prescribe at least some of the presented drugs. Dr. Geneviève Durrieu (from the Pharmaco-epidemiology team assessing the use of medication and the risks involved, Unit 1027 "Epidemiology and public health analyses: risks, chronic diseases and handicaps" - Inserm...
The burden of mortality and morbidity in the perinatal period – pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum – remains a major concern in Europe. Over 5 million women deliver babies in European countries every year.
An exploratory study published today by Sylvaine Cordier and her team and researchers from Inra in Toulouse, suggests that environmental exposure to complex pesticide mixtures could led to metabolic disturbance in pregnant women.
Over the whole school year, 20 middle school and high school pupils were seen each month in 5 neuroscience laboratories specializing in the study of addictions.
Claire Hivroz, INSERM Research Director and her colleagues recently showed in an article published in Nature immunology how a specific protein known as VAMP7 is essential for transporting the signal produced by the ligand–TCR link.
Although excessive quantities of cholesterol in the body are known to have adverse effects on health, researchers might polish up its reputation via one of its derivatives.
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, Inserm and CNRS, have identified a human-specific factor involved in the replication of Chikungunya virus which accounts for the species specificity of this virus.
A l’occasion du comité de suivi annuel du schéma national pour les handicaps rares qui s’est tenu le 30 avril 2013, et a été présidé par Mme Marie-Arlette Carlotti, Ministre chargée des personnes handicapées et de la lutte contre l'exclusion, l’Inserm rend publique l’expertise collective « Handicaps rares, contextes, enjeux et perspectives. »
Le suivi biologique des patients infectés par le VIH et sous traitement antirétroviral s’effectue dans les pays du Nord par des mesures régulières de la charge virale du VIH et des lymphocytes CD4 : il est peu pratiqué dans les pays du Sud en raison de son coût élevé et du manque d’équipement des laboratoires (surtout en milieu rural).
Congenital amusia is a disorder characterized by impaired musical skills, which can extend to an inability to recognize very familiar tunes. The neural bases of this deficit are now being deciphered. According to a study conducted by researchers from CNRS and Inserm at the Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CNRS / Inserm / Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1), amusics exhibit altered processing of musical information in two...
Babies have long been considered as beings with limited skills and behaviors that are principally automatic and of a reflex type, and are not accompanied by a subjective conscious experience. Nevertheless, CNRS scientists in the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistiques (CNRS/Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris/EHESS), working in collaboration with scientists from NeuroSpin (Inserm/CEA) have now shown that as from an age of 5 months, infants are endowed with...
