Friday, May 18 is European Obesity Day. A day to raise the awareness of healthcare players, caregivers and patients of this issue which affects more than 650 million people worldwide. Obesity is often diagnosed using the body mass index (BMI), a calculation that estimates body fat. BMI is a person’s weight (in kg) divided by […]
The thirteenth annual World Immunization Week will take place from April 23 to 29, 2018. The campaign, created by the World Health Organization (WHO), undertakes to raise awareness about the stakes of vaccine protection. This year, WHO is focusing on the importance of immunizing every child to “prevent the relevant diseases and protect their lives.” […]
February 28, 2018, marks the eleventh annual world Rare Disease Day, which carries the slogan “Show your rare. Show you care.” and the #ShowYourRare hashtag. World Rare Disease Day was created in 2008 by EURORDIS and the Council of National Alliances. Ninety countries will be participating in 2018. Orphanet: a Portal for Rare Diseases and […]
Obesity is an excess of body fat that leads to health problems – principally type 2 diabetes and hypertension, and reduces life expectancy. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines obesity as ”abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health”. According to WHO, 13% of adults worldwide were obese in 2014, a figure […]
In France, this cancer affects nearly 3,000 women, and causes over 1,100 deaths each year. There are two complementary levers for preventing and detecting the disease, the cervical smear test for women aged 25 to 65 years, and vaccination against HPV. According to the French National Cancer Institute (INCa), nearly 90% of cervical cancers […]
Surveillance of the virus in metropolitan France continues nonetheless, with the launch of the fifth season of GrippeNet.fr this Wednesday, 25 November. Originally launched in January 2012 by the Sentinelles network team (Inserm – UPMC) and the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS), GrippeNet.fr offers everyone living in metropolitan France, whatever his/her health status, a chance […]
On 15 June 1972, the United Nations celebrated World Environment Day for the first time. Since that day, every year on the same date, the major issues in environmental conservation are given prominence in over 100 countries, a day devoted to the protection of the planet and the future of mankind, which is inseparable from the […]
On Friday 20 March 2015, a partial eclipse of the sun will be visible in France between 9:00 and 12:00 am, depending on the place of observation. Why is looking directly at the sun dangerous and a cause of irreversible damage to the retina? Inserm researchers who are specialists at the Vision Institute (Inserm/CNRS/UPMC) can […]
After a decade of research, a team of researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has identified Juno, a protein located on the membrane of the egg cell that enables the sperm cell to recognise it. Its presence, and that of Izumo (its counterpart on the sperm cell), is essential for fertilisation. Fusion of the […]
European consortium BIOSID have developed a bioartificial pancreas that can directly produce insulin in the bodies of patients with type 1 diabetes, which should be tested in humans by 2015. Trials will be conducted by the team led by Eric Renard, a researcher at Inserm Unit 661, “Institute for Functional Genomics,” at Montpellier University Hospital, […]
