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What do you bet that interests you?
EduCAC has started the year with the project “What do you bet?”, a proposal that goes deep into the context of video games and online gambling from the students’ experience.
A mobile application allows continuous monitoring of anxiety in real life
Researchers from Clínic-IDIBAPS, IDIBELL, and CIBERSAM have developed an application for mobile phones that allows the continuous follow-up of anxiety.
A study demonstrates the good results of cervical cancer robotic surgery
The ROBOCER national registry study, led by IDIBELL and the Bellvitge University Hospital, highlights the advantages of robotic surgery based on data from all cases of cervical cancer operated with the Da Vinci robot in Spain since 2009. The conclusions of the latest analysis have been collected in a scientific article published this February in the journal Cancers.
Manifesto against the war
Ukraine is a democratic country, fully entitled to decide its own future. We reject any military threat aimed at limiting the rights and freedoms of a people. Dismayed by the images that reach us from Ukraine, we feel the need to raise our voice against war and in favour of peace.
The three keys cervical cancer elimination: 90-70-90
In 2020 the WHO initiated the global campaign for cervical cancer elimination through the vaccination of 90% of girls under the age of fifteen, screening at least twice in a lifetime of 70% of women, and adequate treatment for 90% of women with precancerous lesions and uterine cancer.
Proinflammatory diets may increase pancreatic cancer risk
Over 14 years, it was identified and analyzed 1,239 cases of pancreatic cancer and their dietary inflammatory potential. The higher the inflammatory index of the diet, the higher the risk of pancreatic cancer.
A study discovers new clues about the persistence of S. aureus in the hospital environment
A group from IDIBELL and the Bellvitge University Hospital has shown that a genetic variant of the bacterium would be associated with higher production of biofilm, a self-protection system that allows it to persist in the environment.
Let’s Tandem: Research Works
So far, the collaboration between IDIBELL and the Institut Bellvitge has allowed six students to carry out their research work at the IDIBELL facilities and see first-hand the work carried out there.
The generation of a stem cell-derived neurofibroma model opens the door to new treatments development
Neurofibromas are tumors of the peripheral nervous system, which develop in people with a hereditary disease, and they are the main cause of death among those people.