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• February 24 2021

  Birth of the Barcelona Medical Photonics Network

  The network was presented on Thursday, 18 February 2021. The network is promoted by the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) and groups several ho...

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• February 26 2021

  Roll-out of the project “INCISIVE”, which aims to improve the diagnosis and prediction of the cancer using AI and big data

  The goal of the initiative is to explore the potential of new artificial-intelligence tools to improve current imaging solutions for cancer cases.

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• March 1 2021

  The UB creates the Chair on Innovation in Precision Oncology

  Dr. Aleix Prat, head of the Service of Medical Oncology at Hospital Clínic, head of the Translational genomics and targeted therapies in solid tumo...

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• March 1 2021

  The human papillomavirus vaccine prevents 90% of cervical cancers

  4th March is International Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Awareness Day. This virus is the main cause of cervical cancer, and can be prevented by vacci...

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• March 2 2021

  New role reported for sphingomyelin synthase 1 in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

  A study published in GUT, jointly led by Ki Up Lee of the University of Ulsan, South Korea, and José C. Fernández-Checa, leader of the IDIBAPS-IIBB...

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• March 3 2021

  Two articles review current knowledge on the management of hepatocellular carcinoma

  Clínic-IDIBAPS researchers have coordinated two review articles on hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of liver cancer, in which t...

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• March 9 2021

  Lockdown resulted in an increase in epileptic seizures in 1 in 4 patients

  Approximately a quarter, 25.8%, of patients had seizures more frequently than before lockdown.   Half felt more anxious or depressed than...

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• March 15 2021

  A bone fluorescence technique increases the accuracy of hip replacement surgery

  A study carried out by the Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology Department at Hospital Clínic in Barcelona has proven the effectiveness of tetracyc...

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• March 22 2021

  IDIBAPS Researchers Take part in Drafting the New International Guidelines on the Regulation of Autophagy

  The journal Autophagy has published the 4th edition of an international consensus document on the interpretation, mechanisms, and different multidi...

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• March 22 2021

  A study in Nature concludes that immunotherapy is less efficacious in nonviral liver cancer

  An article published in the journal Nature suggests that immunotherapy is effective in patients with HCC of viral origin but does not increase surv...

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• March 22 2021

  Patients with autoimmune diseases and coronavirus infection are at lower risk of developing severe COVID

  A study carried out at Hospital Clínic of Barcelona analysed the outcomes of patients with autoimmune disease and COVID-19 infection who were admit...

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• March 25 2021

  A lumbar puncture allows for early determination of the risk of Parkinson disease and Lewy body dementia

  This methodology makes it possible to determine the risk of developing these diseases before symptoms appear in people with REM sleep behavior diso...

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• March 26 2021

  Elevated levels of intracellular cholesterol promote the accumulation of defective mitochondria found in diseases such as Alzheimer

  A study by IDIBAPS-CSIC has identified a mechanism that favors the accumulation of the accumulation of defective mitochondria found in diseases suc...

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• March 29 2021

  A molecular classification predicts the prognosis and the benefit of a cell cycle inhibitor in metastatic breast cancer

  In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, researchers from the Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS-UB and SOLTI showed the predictive capacity...

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• March 30 2021

  How does sleep duration affect people with type 2 diabetes mellitus?

  A study shows that sleep duration in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular mortality. Sleepin...

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• April 8 2021

  Factors related to improvement are established in patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis on a transplant waiting list

  A study led by researchers from the Clínic-IDIBAPS and the CIBEREHD and published in the Journal of Hepatology shows that up to 9% of patients with...

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• April 8 2021

  Women less likely to undergo angioplasty after a heart attack, says study of nonagenarian patients

  Women with heart disease are less likely to receive surgical treatment than men, even though it is associated with greater benefits for women. Data...

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• April 12 2021

  Postnatal molecular changes associated with the fetal inflammatory response have been identified in extremely preterm newborns

  A new study led by researchers at Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS and the Pompeu Fabra University provides the largest catalogue to date of postnatal molec...

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• April 13 2021

  What do you know about aortic valve stenosis?

  Aortic valve stenosis (AVS) is a degenerative disease that causes a narrowing of the heart’s aortic valve. This narrowing prevents the valve from o...

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• April 13 2021

  An application has been developed to calculate the probability of a patient with severe COVID-19 requiring intubation in an ICU

  Researchers from the Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS have developed a calculator to predict the probability of COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory fai...

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