2nd november 2010 - Institutional news
A group of science journalists from the European Union of Science Journalists Associations (EUSJA) visited the PRBB last Wednesday October 27. They came from Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden and the United Kingdom. During a couple of hours the journalists visited the building and some of the facilities and they also had a chance to talk to some researchers, such as en Manolis Kogevinas (CREAL), Anna Bigas (IMIM) or Maria José Barrero (CMRB) about the research taking place in their centres.
Més informació "European science journalists visit the IMIM"
25/10/2010 - Press release
A large collaborative multi-stage study led by the US National Cancer NCI and based on the Spanish Bladder Cancer (SBCS) / EPICURO Study jointly coordinated by Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) and the Centre de Recerca en Epidemiologia Ambiental (CREAL) and IMIM, has identified several new genetic variants associated with bladder cancer risk and validated recently reported variants.
19/10/2010 - Press release
Days of absence due to illness are the main source of lost human capital for a country’s economy. A paper led by researchers from the IMIM Health Services Research Group (Hospital del Mar Research Institute), has studied what mental and physical disorders occur most commonly and account for days of absence from the usual daily activity.
Més informació "Diseases considered as mild most affect a country’s productivity"
07/10/2010 - Press release
Tomorrow, Friday 8th October, is the last day of the meeting of the Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE)’s second study group. This European Network of Excellence is coordinating a five-year series of activities on the development of the Virtual Human Being, with the aim of generating simulations of multi-scale models which reproduce the way the body works from the molecule to the organ.
Més informació "The Virtual Human Being: simulating how the human body works"
30/09/2010 - Press release
A study conducted by researchers from IMIM in Barcelona and from the Josep Trueta University Hospital and Jordi Gol Foundation in Girona analysed the relationship between socioeconomic status and the risk of suffering from an acute myocardial infarction. Education level and social class based on occupation are indicators that are associated with the risk of having an acute myocardial infarction.
28/09/2010 - Press release
For the first time, a study conducted by the Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group at IMIM and the Community Nutrition Research Group - Nutrition Research Foundation (FIN) at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) shows that youth who eat a Mediterranean diet have a smaller waist circumference than those who do not.
Més informació "The Mediterranean diet can help prevent cardiovascular risk in children"
15/09/2010 - Press release
A study carried out by researchers from the stem cells and cancer research group of the IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute) has shown that if deactivation of the NFkB protein complex in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia is forced, leukaemia is eliminated. This opens the doors for the development of new drugs for this type of leukaemia.
Més informació "New therapeutic avenue discovered to fight against leukaemia"
10/09/2010 - Press release
A worldwide network of 22 scientists, among them Jordi Peña, a researcher at the Research Group in Behavioral Neurology and Dementia at IMIM and neurologist at the Hospital del Mar, has just published a large study that for the first time provides clear evidence on the effectiveness of Non-pharmacological Therapies in Alzheimer’s disease.
08/09/2010 - Press release
Type 2 diabetes is a heart risk factor, along with other factors such as lipid profile, hypertension and obesity. Some studies put the cardiovascular mortality risk in diabetic patients on a par with that presented by non-diabetics who have had a first myocardial infarction. For the first time ever, it has been shown that this is not the case in the south of Europe.
31/08/2010 - Press release
A study led by IMIM researchers in Barcelona has developed a genetic risk indicator that has a linear association with the probability of ischaemic heart disease. This risk indicator is independent of classic cardiovascular risk factors already known and may provide information that is supplementary to them.
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