5ht February 2009 - Press release
Although physical exercise has beneficial effects for all, even those diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), a new study warns that levels of oxidative stress much higher than those at rest conditions may occur in the leg muscles of patients with severe and very severe COPD. The study was carried out in collaboration with Dr. Esther Barreiro’s group at the Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM-Hospital del Mar), together with Dr. Joaquim Gea, head of the Pneumology service at the Hospital del Mar and with Dr. Josep Roca, Director of the Lung Function Unit at the Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS.
Més informació "A study questions chronic endurance exercise in patients with severe COPD"
4th February 2009 - Press release
For the first time, a study has evaluated the contribution of the Mediterranean diet on the perception that people have of their own physical and mental health. The report concludes that the positive effects of the Mediterranean diet are not provided only by the composition of the food ingested, but also by the lifestyle associated with this diet: eating at home more, spending time preparing the food, sharing meals, etc.; elements that contribute to improving the perception of an individual’s well-being.
Més informació "The Mediterranean diet is associated with an improvement in mental health"
27 January 2009 - Press release
An extensive report to be published this February in the prestigious journal Addiction shows the results of a study about the evolution of the incidence of heroin use in Spain from 1971 to 2005. This exhaustive work, spanning 35 years of the history of an addiction, included the analysis of data from 167,753 individuals with a heroin addiction problem.
13 January 2009 - Press release
A study by the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) and the Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM-Hospital del Mar) suggests that a diet moderately rich in fish (2 or 3 times a week) during pregnancy is associated with an increase in children’s intellectual capacity later in life.
23 December 2008 - Press release
Researchers from the Childhood and Environmental Research Group of the Municipal Institute for Medical Research (IMIM-Hospital del Mar), a group that is connected to the Paediatrics Service at Hospital del Mar, have used meconium or newborns' first excrement to establish whether the mother consumed drugs during the last two trimesters of pregnancy
17 Decembre 2008 - Press release
Once thought of as a technology used only for computer games, NVIDIA® GeForce® graphics processing units (GPUs) with CUDA™ technology are now being used for the serious business of scientific computation. GPUGRID GPUGRID, the first BOINC project to use NVIDIA GeForce GPUs with CUDA technology for computing.
Més informació "NVIDIA CUDA Technology Dramatically Advances The Pace of Scientific Research"
21 November 2008 - Press release
The study is the first to show that women who are exposed to hairspray in the workplace during the first trimester of pregnancy have more than double the risk of having a son with the genital birth defect hypospadias.The study was carried out in the UK and coordinated by the Imperial College London, with the participation of the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) in Barcelona and University College Cork.
Més informació "Hairspray is linked to common genital birth defect"
14 October 2008 - Press release
According to the results of a study recently published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, ecstasy use causes problems with verbal fluidity, working memory and the speed that information is processed. These effects are long-term and may not disappear, even when use of the drug has ceased.
Més informació "Harmful effects of ecstasy use found to be long-term"
13/10/2008 - Press release
The diagnosis and treatment alone of certain mental illnesses is not enough. In the future the way in which the mentally ill are perceived within their environment must also be taken into consideration. An international study and the first carried out at local level, has shown that one of the associated effects of mental illness is a feeling of shame and social discrimination that sufferers experience simply as a result of being ill.
Més informació "People suffering from mental disorders feel discriminated"
08/10/2008 - Press release
A study directed by Anouchka Skoudy in which researchers from IMIM and UPF took part, in collaboration with other European institutions, has enabled the generation of pancreatic cells with acinar phenotypes under controlled conditions for the first time.
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