On March 24th, we will commemorate the World Tuberculosis (TB) Day to raise public awareness about TB. Responsible of over 4,500 deaths a day, this disease presents devastating health, social and economic impacts. Despite the fact that TB is curable, too many children do not access treatment and die from the disease because they are […]
The study used data from the French National Hospital Discharge database (Programme de Médicalisation des Systèmes d’Information) which holds details on all hospital admissions, between 2008-2013. Carole Dufouil, deputy director of ISPED and co-director of the VINTAGE “Vascular and neurological diseases: integrative and genetic epidemiology” team (INSERM Center U1219 Bordeaux population Health, université de Bordeaux) […]
The project of a « Graduate School of Digital Public Health » conceived by the Bordeaux School of Public Health (ISPED) and the Bordeaux Population Health research center (BPH) has been awarded the third French Investments for the Future Programme (Programme d’Investissements d’Avenir, PIA3).The University of Bordeaux endorses 3 of the total 29 selected projects.
ANRS TEMPRANO was coordinated by Dr Xavier Anglaret, research supervisor and IDLIC team leader at the Bordeaux population health research center (U1219, University of Bordeaux), and Professor Serge Eholie from the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department of the Treichville University Hospital, and conducted by researchers from the Ivory Coast ANRS site, which comprises 8 other […]
Coordinated by the IDLIC team of the Bordeaux Population Health Research Centre, the TB-Speed project of University of Bordeaux intends to reduce childhood tuberculosis (TB) in Africa and Asia by enhancing case finding and facilitating access to treatment. The project is supported by Unitaid for an amount of 14,670,470 USD and by the 5% Initiative […]
A scientific article published in the journal PLOS Medicine shows for the first time that some drugs increase the risk of accidents for pedestrians. This study, carried out by the Injury epidemiology transport, occupation team, in collaboration with the Statistics in systems biology and for translational medicine team at the INSERM U1219 center, was made […]
This prize has been awarded annually since 2005 by a scientific jury composed of members of the Académie des Sciences as part of the “Grands Prix des Fondations de l’Institut de France”. He is promoted by the Christophe and Rodolphe Mérieux Foundation, and rewards scientists who have distinguished themselves in research on infectious diseases in […]
Known to be a possible cause of several chronic diseases, vitamin D deficiency is also suspected to lead to a high risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, especially where the diet is also poor in ‘good fats’ and antioxidant carotenoids. This is what two studies led by Catherine Féart and Cécilia Samieri, researchers at Inserm unit […]
Catherine Feart, research scientist U1219 Bordeaux Population Health of the LEHA team is one of the 8 experts, mandated by Santé Public France and the Institut national du cancer (Inca) Which issued a notice published on May 4, 2017 advocating to scale the references of alcohol consumption down in France. The working group was led […]
Prof. Rodolphe Thiébaut, Deputy Director of the Bordeaux Population Health U1219 research center, has been appointed to the Inserm Scientific Board and will contribute to the Institute’s policy and to the development of medical research and life sciences and health.
Member of the U1219 team “Psychoepidemiology of Aging and Chronic Diseases”, the PhD candidate received the 3rd Prize of the Jury in the final of the Aquitaine Region of the competition “My thesis in 180 seconds” with the subject: “Precariousness, Cognitive aging and frailty: an epidemiological approach “. Camille Ouvrard was a competitor among the […]
The two projects will be conducted by multidisciplinary consortia including researchers from the LEHA team. D-CogPlast (Identification of dietary modulators of cognitive ageing and brain plasticity and proof of concept of efficacy for preventing/reversing cognitive decline), initiated in 2016, will examine the role of dietary bioactives affecting brain plasticity for cognitive ageing processes. D-CogPlast consists […]
The study has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine. This trial was conducted by a consortium of international research teams involving Inserm and the national institutes of health, as part of a partnership between researchers, Guinean authorities and NGOs.
Researchers from the HEALTHY (Health, well-being and achievement in the young) team of the Bordeaux Population Health research center (BPH) found an association between headaches and tinnitus, in a study led on 5729 students from the i-Share cohort. With a mean age of 20.8 years, 1645 participants reported migraine. They were 8,9% to report tinnitus. […]
In the article published in the BMJ of may 2016, Francesco Salvo, researcher in the team “Pharmacoepidemiology and population impact of drugs” in the Bordeaux population health research center U1219, recalls the importance of compliance with recommendations regarding dipeptyl peptidase-4 inhibitors (DPP-4) and sulphonylureas when these drugs are associated in diabetics patients,. This article allows […]
