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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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• 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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• 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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• 14 October 2008 - Press release

  Harmful effects of ecstasy use found to be long-term

  

  According to the results of a study recently published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, ecstasy use causes problems with verbal fluidity, working memory and the speed that information is processed. These effects are long-term and may not disappear, even when use of the drug has ceased.

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• 13/10/2008 - Press release

  People suffering from mental disorders feel discriminated

  

  The diagnosis and treatment alone of certain mental illnesses is not enough. In the future the way in which the mentally ill are perceived within their environment must also be taken into consideration. An international study and the first carried out at local level, has shown that one of the associated effects of mental illness is a feeling of shame and social discrimination that sufferers experience simply as a result of being ill.

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• 08/10/2008 - Press release

  IMIM researchers have generated pancreatic cells with acinar phenotypes for the first time

  

  A study directed by Anouchka Skoudy in which researchers from IMIM and UPF took part, in collaboration with other European institutions, has enabled the generation of pancreatic cells with acinar phenotypes under controlled conditions for the first time.

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• 19/09/2008 - Press release

  MHADIE: A new framework for supporting health and disability policy in Europe

  

  The Italian Foundation IRCCS Neurological Institute Carlo Besta of Milan coordinated an innovative European research that involved for three years leading international researchers and that will allow the European Union to propose to its member countries a new model for disability policy within both health, statistical and social contexts. In this project has participated the health services research group of IMIM. 

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• 16/09/2008 - Press release

  Air Pollution in Europe – A Continuing Threat to Health from the Very Air We Breathe

  

  By providing fresh information, the new Aphekom project , with the CREAL colaboration, will further elucidate the characteristics and consequences of air pollution for policy and individual decision making across Europe.

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