Women are less prone to cardiovascular disease then men; but this difference between the sexes becomes less marked after the menopause.
The Healthy Life Years indicates how long people can expect to live without disability. It has been computed annually for each Member State of the European Union since 2005.
The London Olympic Games kick off on July 27th. With around 100 days to go, Inserm wishes to invite you to look into the research that has been done in the fields of sport and health. Various research programs over the last few years have shown the benefits of physical exercise on our health, in […]
What link is there between poor indoor air quality and the allergic and respiratory health of children in French schools?
With a view to strengthening dialogue into “science and society", Inserm has launched “Health in questions”, a series of public conferences.
Researchers from the Nutritional Epidemiology Joint Research Unit (Inserm-Inra-Cnam-Université Paris 13) have just published a study showing that, in men with a previous history of cardiovascular pathologies,
Researchers have endeavoured to ascertain the factors preventing helmet use and the approaches that could be used to promote it.
On January 25, 2012, a new influenza monitoring system known as GrippeNet.fr was launched jointly by the Sentinelles network team
Romauld Lepers and Thomas Cattagni, researchers from Inserm Unit 1093 “Cognition, Action and Sensorimotor Plasticity” at the Université de Bourgogone, have analysed changes in participation and performance of runners aged 20 to 80 in the New York marathon over the last 30 years. The results are largely unexpected: the best male marathon runners over 65 […]