06/05/2008 - Press release
Ten centres of the research Network of Excellence GA²LEN, the Global Allergy and Asthma European Network, will be following athletes selected for the Olympic Games 2008 to assess the prevalence and diagnosis rates of asthma and allergies among top athletes in summer sports.
Més informació "Sport and asthma: GA²LEN researchers follow European Olympic athletes to Beijing"
05/05/2008 - Press release
An international study coordinated by Jordi Alonso, manager of the health care services research group at the Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM-Hospital del Mar) has revealed that different types of anxiety disorders suffered by adults are associated with lack of care or excessively protective maternal behaviour during the early lives of their children.
Més informació "Good parent-children relationships can prevent future anxiety disorders"
28/04/2008 - Press release
Short-term exposure to current levels of ozone in many areas is likely to contribute to premature deaths, says a new National Research Council report, in which Nino Künzli, ICREA professor of the CREAL-IMIM has participated. The evidence is strong enough that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should include ozone-related mortality in health-benefit analyses related to future ozone standards.
Més informació "Link beetwen ozone air pollution and premature death confirmed"
14/04/2008 - Institutional news
An international study done by the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) and the Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM-Hospital del Mar) with collaboration from the University of Aarhus in Denmark affirms the known link between pre-natal exposure to paracetamol, especially during the first trimester, and the risk of respiratory problems or the development of asthma in the first seven years of a child’s life.
03/04/2008 - Press release
An international research group has explained, for the first time, the relationship that exists between DNA methylation and the risk of urinary bladder cancer. This study is part of the EPICURO/Spanish Bladder Cancer Study, which since 2003 has worked towards its objective of obtaining more information regarding the causes (genetic and environmental), prevention, prognosis determination and treatment of bladder cancer.
Més informació "A new marker for bladder cancer risk has been identified"
12/03/2008 - Press release
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.
Més informació "EU Grants European Project for the Early Detection of Adverse Drugs Events"
04/02/2008 - Press release
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...
Més informació "Researchers discover that inhibiting a protein protects against heat stroke"
15/11/2007 - Press release
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.
07/04/06 - Institutional news
The registration to participate in the workshop “Programming Pancreatic ß-cells” is open until 1 August 2006. This event will be held from 18 to 22th October at El Perelló (in the Delta de l’Ebre).
Més informació "Registration is open for the workshop: “Programming Pancreatic ß-cells""
01/04/05 - General information
As a consequence of the appointment to General Director of the PRBB, Dr. Jordi Camí leaves the direction of the IMIM.
Més informació "Replacement in the direction of the Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM)"
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