A vast European clinical study involving 800 very large and extremely premature infants hospitalized in 14 European countries is published today in the prestigious JAMA Pediatrics: the TREOCAPA study, coordinated by the PedStart pediatric clinical investigation network.

Faced with the boom in new drug treatments for obesity (TMO), GCC-CSO and the F-CRIN "FORCE" network have published a position paper aimed at providing a framework for their use in adults, clarifying their indications and reiterating the importance of long-term medical and nutritional support.

Is it possible to reduce treatments for the most frail elderly without endangering their health? A large-scale French clinical study, RETREAT-FRAIL, has produced reassuring results and opened up concrete prospects for improving the quality of life of EHPAD residents.

These thematic networks address major public health needs, in fields as varied as maternal health, intensive care, infectiology, mycobacterial infections, pneumology and amyloidosis.