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 […]
According to WHO, tuberculosis is one of the 10 main causes of death in the world. In 2015, 10.4 million people were suffering from this illness and 1.8 million died. Furthermore, tuberculosis is the main cause of death in people who are HIV positive. According to WHO, a third of the world population has latent […]
Friday, March 17 will mark the 17th edition of World Sleep Day, an opportunity to raise general public awareness of the health impact of sleep. Sleep is essential to brain maturation and development. It also plays a fundamental role in metabolic functions, notably by regulating the production of several hormones. Sleep quality is likely to […]
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 […]
Wednesday 8 March 2017 is devoted to International Women’s Day. In 2014, Inserm established a think-tank on “Gender and Health Research” within the Inserm Ethics Committee. Led by Catherine Vidal and Jennifer Merchant, members of the Inserm Ethics Committee, its objectives are to raise awareness about the impact of gender on health research, and to […]
Wednesday 1 March 2017 will see the unveiling of the interministerial plan for “mobilisation and action on violence against children” by Laurence Rossignol, Minister for Families, Children and Women’s Rights. Since early this year, the news has been marked by a series of infanticides in France. Although child abuse affects children from all backgrounds, official […]
© 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 […]
Almost 15,000 cases of cancer could be prevented in France each year by improving living conditions and promoting health among the most vulnerable populations. These were the conclusions of a study published in the weekly epidemiological report Bulletin épidémiologique hebdomadaire (BEH), and coordinated by Inserm Unit 1086 “Cancer and Prevention” located in Caen. A growing statistically […]
World Cancer Day, which will take place on 4 February next, will be an opportunity to make the general public aware about prevention, detection and treatment of this disease. Researchers from Inserm Unit 1121, “Biomaterials and Bioengineering” (Inserm/University of Strasbourg), have improved the artificial larynx that they developed 5 years ago, and have optimised their […]
While the “Crit’Air” air quality sticker came into force in Paris on 16 January 2017, several physicians, scientists and NGOs launched an appeal for urgent action on air pollution, recalling that it causes 48,000 premature deaths a year in France. While France has just endured several prolonged episodes of severe particulate pollution, leading the public […]
