New excellence award for the Maternal-Fetal Medicine service
On 16 February, Dr. Montse Palacio, from the Maternal Fetal Medicine service of the Hospital Clinic, received the Excellence Award of Research , on...
News from 2013
Dr Josep Dalmau and Dr Eduard Tolosa awarded by the Catalan Society of Neurology
One of the main events of the seventeenth annual meeting of the Catalan Society of Neurology (SCN), held on 7 and 8 March in Sitges, is the ceremon...
Inatal, all the information about pregnancy in a click
Early February, the Research Team in Maternal Fetal Medicine from the Hospital Clínic premiered inatal, the first web about pregnancy created by a...
Immunotherapy controls 81% of anti-NMDA autoimmune encephalitis
The anti-NMDA autoimmune encephalitis is a disease described in 2005 by a team led by Dr. Josep Dalmau at the University of Pennsylvania (USA). In...
Major histocompatibility complex molecules regulate autoimmune diabetes through dendritic cells
The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) comprises a group of cell surface molecules that mediate interactions between immune cells. They determi...
Dr. Ramon Gomis new member of the Institute of Catalan Studies
The plenary session of the Institute of Catalan Studies (Institut d'Estudis Catalans - IEC) agreed on February 25 to include four new members. The...
The Mediterranean diet reduces by 30% the heart attack and stroke risk
The Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra virgin olive oil or nuts, is able to reduce by 30% the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke or card...
Notch signaling promotes liver carcinogenesis becoming an appealing target for new therapies
Less than 30% of newly diagnosed hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients are eligible for curative therapies such as resection, liver transplantati...
On-line haemodiafiltration reduces the mortality of dialysis patients by 30%
Haemodialysis is a technique that replaces the functions of the kidney in filtering blood in patients with terminal-phase kidney disease. Despite...
An study suggests that sperm can use fatty acids as fuel
According to a recent article in the magazine: Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, a series of experiments suggest that sperm can get the ATP (adeno...