Since the COP 22, health has been a central topic of discussion. It is within this context, and on the day before the One planet Summit to be held tomorrow in Paris, that 10 principles for protecting respiratory health from climate change were proposed by an ad hoc workgroup from the Environment and Health Committee […]
Friday December 1, 2017, is World AIDS Day. Introduced by the World Health Organization in 1988 and observed in many countries each year since, this day aims to inform and raise awareness of the prevention, treatment and management of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/AIDS. AIDS is a scourge that affects the world’s poorest countries and populations […]
The 11th edition of National “Dys” Day will be held on Tuesday, October 10, 2017. Created by the Fédération Française des DYS, it mobilizes parents who are members of associations together with professionals from across France. The various learning disabilities that begin with “dys”, and which are now better understood by the general public, affect […]
On Monday, October 2, three Americans, Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young, were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their research on the control of circadian rhythms. A field which is also being studied by researchers from Inserm: Claude Gronfier, Inserm researcher and chronobiologist, Stem-cell and Brain Research Institute, Lyon Howard Cooper, […]
From July 23 to 26, 2017, the Ninth IAS Conference on HIV Science, of which Inserm is a partner, will be held at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. For this edition, the International AIDS Society (IAS) has teamed up with ANRS, the autonomous agency of Inserm, to coordinate and fund research on HIV/AIDS and […]
After 6 months of life in space as part of the Proxima mission, French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will land on Friday, June 2, 2017, in the middle of the afternoon (4:08 p.m. Paris time), aboard the Soyuz capsule which is expected to touch down in the Kazakhstani steppes. On the station, he carried out […]
For children as well as adults, Easter is synonymous with chocolate. Known for its antioxydant qualities, among other things dark chocolate reduces the risk of diabetes and cell ageing. A good reason to make the most of it ! Chocolate is a food which is classed as one of the best sources of antioxydants which […]
During the last weekend in March we moved to summer time. During the night of Saturday into Sunday, we put our clocks forward one hour. Claude Gronfier, a neurobiologist and researcher at Inserm (Unit 1208), has shown that the biological functions of the body are regulated by the circadian rhythm, a cycle of 24 hours […]
The 19th edition of Brain Awareness Week, coordinated by the French Society for Neuroscience, will take place from 13 to 19 March 2017, in France and 62 other countries. During the many events, the general public is invited to come and meet the researchers in order to gain a better understanding of the workings of […]
© rarediseaseday.org The 28 February 2017 marks the 10th edition of World Rare Disease Day, with the slogan “Join us in making the voice of rare diseases heard.” While there are 7,000 known rare diseases, 80% of them genetic in origin, new rare diseases are regularly discovered. According to the definition used in Europe, a disease […]