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• 28/04/2008 - Press release

  Link beetwen ozone air pollution and premature death confirmed

  

  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.

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• 03/04/2008 - Press release

  A new marker for bladder cancer risk has been identified

  

  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.

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• 12/03/2008 - Press release

  EU Grants European Project for the Early Detection of Adverse Drugs Events

  

  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.

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• 04/02/2008 - Press release

  Researchers discover that inhibiting a protein protects against heat stroke

  

  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...

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• 15/11/2007 - Press release

  PS3GRID Live: with a pen drive we can carry out computational biomedical calculations on our Playstation 3

  

  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.

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