In response to the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic, the clinical development of a two-dose regimen of vaccines Ad26.ZEBOV and MVA-BN-Filo was accelerated. Approved in 2020 by the European Commission for use in epidemic emergencies, this regimen continues to demonstrate its relevance. An Inserm study has played a role in evaluating its safety and immunogenicity in healthy adults and in those with HIV and compared different time intervals between the two...
What if a few minutes of interaction with a chatbot could effectively address vaccine concerns? In an article published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied (28 October 2021), researchers from the CNRS, INSERM, and ENS-PSL show that such an interface is indeed capable of swaying the vaccine-hesitant.
In 2013, a medical team proposed to the Haitian government and to Unicef a coordinated strategy to fight against cholera, aimed at breaking the chains of transmission. This strategy and its results, which show the apparent cessation of cholera transmission in Haiti since 2019, have just been the subject of a publication in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Since the pandemic began, many studies have tried to explain what differentiates the immune response of people with severe forms of COVID-19 resulting in death from that of other patients. In a new study, researchers from Inserm and Sorbonne Université at the Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, in collaboration with physician researchers from Paris hospitals group AP-HP, focused on a type of immune response known as the cellular...
La France figure parmi les pays les plus consommateurs de médicaments en Europe. Des chercheurs ont quantifié les prescriptions médicamenteuses pédiatriques en France et étudié leur évolution entre 2010 et 2019.
The group of experts gathered by Inserm analyzed the recent scientific literature in order to examine the link between pesticides and some twenty diseases. It also analyzed the health effects of two active substances and one family of pesticides: chlordecone, glyphosate, and succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor (SDHI) fungicides.
A new study published by researchers from Inserm and University of Bordeaux at the Bordeaux Population Health Research Center reveals in an unprecedented way a link between circulating carotenoids – plant pigments that protect the retina – and the reduced risk of developing advanced AMD.
How do we predict suicide risk in students? A team of researchers from Inserm and Université de Bordeaux, in collaboration with the Universities of Montreal and McGill in Quebec, have used artificial intelligence to identify a small set of mental health indicators that accurately predict suicidal behavior in students.
Between 3 and 6 years of age, children spend an average of around 2 hours a day in front of screens. While many researchers have identified links between screen time and cognitive development in children, few have looked at the context in which screens are used. Inserm researchers at the Center of Research in Epidemiology and Statistics - Université de Paris (CRESS) have identified a link between the television...
Alcohol consumption is both directly and indirectly implicated in the onset of some 60 diseases, making it a major health risk factor. In France, around 43 million people consume alcohol. Faced with its inherent health, social and financial impacts, the country’s Health Directorate and Interdepartmental Mission to Combat Drugs and Addictive Behavior asked Inserm to take stock of the harm related to alcohol and formulate research avenues and measures...
