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• 12/03/2008 - Press release

  EU Grants European Project for the Early Detection of Adverse Drugs Events

  

  Before launching a new drug to the market, it is tested on thousands of people, but adverse reactions (side effects) may not be detected until many more patients have used the drug. Once the drug is on the market, clinicians are responsible for recognizing and reporting suspected side effects, which are collected in so-called spontaneous reporting systems.

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• 04/02/2008 - Press release

  Researchers discover that inhibiting a protein protects against heat stroke

  

  Barcelona, 4 February 2008.- Until now, we have not had any specific treatment for the often fatal effects of heat stroke. A group of researchers from the Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica (IMIM-Hospital del Mar), in collaboration with researchers from the Centro Regional de Hemodonación and the General Surgery Service of the University Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca in Murcia...

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• 15/11/2007 - Press release

  PS3GRID Live: with a pen drive we can carry out computational biomedical calculations on our Playstation 3

  

  Researchers at the Research Unit on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB) at the Instituto Municipal de Investigación Médica (IMIM) and the Universidad Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona, have invented a surprising and revolutionary computational initiative, the platform www.ps3grid.net within the PS3GRID project, will allow those interested in participating to put their own videogame console at the disposal of high-level international science.

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