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• June 23 2020

  Heart attack admissions decline during COVID-19

  It has been observed that cardiovascular disease and COVID-19 are related in various ways, one of the most dangerous of which is patients with hear...

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• June 29 2020

  Coronavirus has a more serious impact on patients with haematological diseases

  People who have a haematological disease, such as lymphoma or leukaemia, present a state of immunosuppression caused both by the illness itself and...

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• July 7 2020

  How to tell the difference between allergy symptoms and COVID

  During the COVID-19 pandemic, allergists and other specialists such as pulmonologists, ENT specialists, internists and dermatologists have attended...

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• July 14 2020

  Thrombosis are one of the main complications associated with COVID-19

  Thrombosis, especially venous thrombosis, are one of the serious complications that can appear in patients affected by COVID-19. These complication...

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• July 22 2020

  Behaviours to prevent anxiety and depression during the pandemic

  The pandemic and lockdown caused by COVID-19 have increased symptoms of anxiety and depression in the population. However, according to a major sur...

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• July 23 2020

  Treatment with tocilizumab in patients with kidney transplant reduces mortality from COVID-19

  In a retrospective study with 80 kidney transplant patients with COVID-19, treatment with tocilizumab demonstrates a decrease in one of the inflamm...

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• July 24 2020

  Using social media to raise awareness about pneumonia

  Approximately 800,000 children and 1 million elderly people died of pneumonia around the world in 2017. Nevertheless, the severity of pneumonia is...

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• July 24 2020

  Effects of infection and confinement on Parkinson's disease during the COVID-19 pandemic

  COVID-19 affects people with Parkinson’s disease in a similar way to the general population, but it may be more serious in cases of advanced diseas...

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• July 24 2020

  People who smoke and suffer from COPD are more vulnerable to COVID-19 complications

  Active smokers who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are more likely to present serious forms of COVID-19. There are yet no studies...

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• September 2 2020

  Severe hypoglycaemia causes reduced cognitive function in elderly people with type 1 diabetes

  The low blood sugar (glucose) levels experienced by people with diabetes can affect the brain. A sudden drop in glucose causes neuronal death and,...

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• September 8 2020

  The Hospital Clínic and BSC will use Artificial Intelligence to predict the evolution of patients with COVID-19

  An AI model based on information from more than three thousand clinical reports generated by the Hospital Clínic during the acute phase of the pand...

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• September 8 2020

  Nutrition is the most useful tool when treating Congenital Metabolic Disorders

  Congenital metabolic disorders are rare diseases caused by alterations when ingested nutrients are processed. They can cause the accumulation or de...

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• September 17 2020

  Preclinical results support a new combinatorial treatment for follicular Lymphoma to target the tumor cell and its immune microenvironment

  Researchers from the “Microenvironment in Lymphoma Pathogenesis and Therapy” IDIBAPS research group have identified a fingerprint to predict the se...

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• September 17 2020

  MethinksLVO software helps to accelerate and improve diagnosis of patients with ictus

  MethinksLVO software is able to detect vaso-occlusion in less than two minutes using non-contrast CT images. The algorithm’s interpretation of t...

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• September 18 2020

  Spin-off Reveal Genomics born to develop innovative diagnostic tests in oncology

  Reveal Genomics’ first goal will be to develop diagnostic tools based on complex genomic data for patients with advanced breast cancer.

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• September 22 2020

  Tofacitinib: new drug approved for the treatment of patients with ulcerative colitis

  Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the colonic mucosa. There is no curative treatment. Instead, patients must take m...

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• September 30 2020

  Patients’ lack of knowledge about heart failure is the main cause of readmission

  Hospitalisation due to heart failure has not reduced in recent years. Instead it has remained the same, or even increased. Considering the advanced...

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• October 8 2020

  Vaccination against flu and pneumonia during the COVID-19 pandemic

  Pneumonia and influenza are totally preventable respiratory infections. Nevertheless, thousands of cases are diagnosed every year. This year, in ad...

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• October 13 2020

  Immuneel Therapeutics, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona & IDIBAPS Announce a Strategic collaboration & a License Agreement

  Immuneel Therapeutics Private Limited (Immuneel) today announced that it has entered into a multi-asset collaboration and licensing agreement with...

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• October 13 2020

  Performing a CT scan on people at risk of lung cancer allows early diagnosis of the disease

  Lung cancer continues to have the highest mortality of all malignant neoplasms, both in men and women. Despite advances in treatment, global surviv...

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