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  SANCO Project inaugural meeting: the EU contribution to the World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys initiative

  

  On February 3rd and 4th, a group of European experts will lay the foundations for an in-depth analysis of the public health challenges relating to mental disorders in Europe. This is the aim of a project funded by the European Commission’s Directorate General of Public Health and Consumer Affairs (SANCO) and coordinated by IMIM-Hospital del Mar.

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• 27 January 2009 - Press release

  Heroin, a drug in decline?

  

  An extensive report to be published this February in the prestigious journal Addiction shows the results of a study about the evolution of the incidence of heroin use in Spain from 1971 to 2005. This exhaustive work, spanning 35 years of the history of an addiction,  included the analysis of data from 167,753 individuals with a heroin addiction problem.

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• 22 January 2009 - General information

  A project to improve knowledge about the behaviour of pharmaceuticals in space, sponsored by IMIM, selected by the European Space Agency

  

  The ABCtr MicroG project was recently selected, from among many other European initiatives, as one of the four best projects to fly with the European Space Agency (ESA) this October on its 51st campaign of parabolic flights as part of the “Fly your Thesis!” project. This project offers PhD and master’s degree students the opportunity to design, build and carry out a scientific experiment in microgravity.

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• 13 January 2009 - Press release

  A diet rich in fish during pregnancy favours the neurological development of children

  

  A study by the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) and the Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM-Hospital del Mar) suggests that a diet moderately rich in fish (2 or 3 times a week) during pregnancy is associated with an increase in children’s intellectual capacity later in life.

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• 23 December 2008 - Press release

  A New Method Makes It Possible to Estimate the Actual Prevalence of Drug Use During Pregnancy

  

  Researchers from the Childhood and Environmental Research Group of the Municipal Institute for Medical Research (IMIM-Hospital del Mar), a group that is connected to the Paediatrics Service at Hospital del Mar, have used meconium or newborns' first excrement to establish whether the mother consumed drugs during the last two trimesters of pregnancy

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• 17 Decembre 2008 - Press release

  NVIDIA CUDA Technology Dramatically Advances The Pace of Scientific Research

  

  Once thought of as a technology used only for computer games, NVIDIA® GeForce® graphics processing units (GPUs) with CUDA™ technology are now being used for the serious business of scientific computation. GPUGRID GPUGRID, the first BOINC project to use NVIDIA GeForce GPUs with CUDA technology for computing.

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• 25 November 2008 - Events

  1st BiblioPRO Appraiser Training Workshop

  

  The 1st BiblioPRO Appraiser Training Workshop was held on Friday, 21st November. BiblioPRO is an online library which provides exhaustive and high-quality scientific information on health-related quality of life instruments and other Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) for use in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries. The aim of the library is to facilitate the appropriate use of these instruments in research, clinical practice, and health care planning and management

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• 21 November 2008 - Press release

  Hairspray is linked to common genital birth defect

  

  The study is the first to show that women who are exposed to hairspray in the workplace during the first trimester of pregnancy have more than double the risk of having a son with the genital birth defect hypospadias.The study was carried out in the UK and coordinated by the Imperial College London, with the participation of the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) in Barcelona and University College Cork.

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• 17 November 2008 - General information

  The European Project on Policy Information Research for Mental Disorders EPREMED was finalized

  

  Coordinated by URSS and funded by DG Sanco, the EPREMED project contributed to the improvement of mental health policy information in Europe through the in-depth analysis of the prevalence, risk factors, burden and service use of individuals with mental disorders.

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• 31 October 2008 and 1 November 2008 - General information

  Annual meeting of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Public Health

  

  CREAL welcomes the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Public Health (IJPH) to their annual meeting. Both Editors-in-chief, Thomas Abel and Thomas Kohlmann and 6 of the 8 Associate Editors (Louise Potvin, David McQueen, Petra Kolip, Bremen Germany; Andrea Madarasova-Geckova, Herman Van Oyen and Nino Kuenzli) will discuss the state and progress of IJPH.

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