For the second consecutive year, FameLab, the international scientific communication competition organised by the British Council and its partners, is coming back to France !Who is this competition for?Whether you are a young researcher, student or teacher of science, FameLab invites you to present your chosen subject for three minutes to a panel of professionals […]
Bernard Cazeneuve, French Minister of the Interior, presented a plan of action to address all causes of lack of road safety on Monday 26 January 2015. Comprising 26 measures, the plan is aimed at sensitising, alerting and educating road users, combating serious breaches of road safety, and making France’s infrastructure safer.[1] In 2014, according to […]
According to the weekly bulletin of the Sentinelles network, the incidence of influenza crossed the epidemic threshold last week, with 231 cases detected in general practice per 100,000 inhabitants. A figure that exceeds the epidemic threshold (179 cases per 100,000 inhabitants). At regional level, the highest rates of incidence were found in: Limousin, Auvergne and […]
A study conducted by Inserm’s Centre for Epidemiology on Medical Causes of Death (CépiDc) and the Paris public hospital system (AP-HP) highlights an association between suicide rate and unemployment in metropolitan France between 2000 and 2010. The statistical model actually reveals a mean 1.5% increase in suicide rate, both sexes combined, for a 10% increase […]
In metropolitan France last week, the incidence rate for cases of acute diarrhoea seen in general practice was estimated at 253 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, i.e. 160,000 new cases, higher than the previous week, and just below the epidemic threshold (269 cases per 100,000 inhabitants). At regional level, the highest rates of incidence were found […]
9 children with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency have received a new form of gene therapy. Alain Fischer, Marina Cavazzana-Calvo and Salima Hacein-Bey-Abina, together with their teams at Inserm Unit 1163 and AP-HP, have just published these results in the New England Journal of Medicine. In 1999, these researchers pioneered the treatment by gene therapy of […]
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to two Americans, Eric Betzig and William Moerner, and a German, Stefan Hell, on Wednesday 8 October “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy,” nanoscopy, as the jury said in its press release. The laureates developed two methods enabling microscopy on a nanometric scale, and hence the […]
The Nobel Prize of physiology or medicine 2014 is awarded to John O’Keefe, May-Britt and Edvard I. Moser for their work about for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. May-Britt’s work, conducted with Edvard Moser as a long-term collaborator, includes the discovery of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex, as […]
For 40 years, the practice of caesarean section has become increasingly common all over the world. It is also associated with a higher risk of infectious complications for both the mother and child. In an article published in the specialist journal ACTA, Benedicte Coulme and Beatrice Blondel, who are researchers at Inserm in Unit 1153: […]
The chikungunya virus is an infectious arboviral disease from the family Togaviridae. It comes from tropical regions and is transmitted by Aedes mosquitos. The virus is contracted by the mosquito when it bites an infected individual. It then becomes a carrier and can transmit the disease by biting a healthy person. There is no curative […]
The 16th edition of the National Day of Screening for Skin Cancer will be held on Thursday, 22 May. It is organised by the French National Union of Dermatologists, with the support of the French National Cancer Institute (INCa). This day is an opportunity to recall the importance of prevention and monitoring in dermatology. The earlier cancer is […]
