This is a physical exercise training programme funded by the Carlos III Health Institute and led by the Health Cures Research Group (GRECS) The Health Cures Research Group (GRECS) of the University of Lleida and the Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida (IRBLleida) is starting a …

“Studies have found that 20 or 30 years before a diagnosis from Alzheimer’s disease (AD), metabolic alterations have already been identified in these patients”, states Mònica Bulló PhD, the principal investigator of the project and member of the research group of Nutrition and Metabolic Health …

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The use of emerging senolytic drugs, which attack senescent or ageing cells, could improve people who have suffered an ischaemic stroke due to a lack of blood flow to the brain. This is according to research by the University of Lleida (UdL) and the Institute …

The therapeutic advances are in contrast to the devastating effects that COVID-19 has had on the evolution of many patients Fifteen patients from the Cognitive Disorders Unit of the University Hospital of Santa Maria (HUSM) have taken part in the clinical trials that have led …

The treatment consists of performing brief compressive stimuli on the arm of the person suspected of having a recent stroke in the ambulance, before arriving at the hospital to improve cerebral circulation The Stroke Unit of the Department of Neurology at the Arnau de Vilanova …

Dr. Xavier Gallart-Palau at the Institut Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, together with Dr Aida Serra of the IMDEA Research Institute Food & Health Sciences in Madrid, Spain, and with Dr. Siu Kwan Sze of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, is driving forward research concerning …

The Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, has awarded Prof Jordi Salas Salvadó, deputy director of the Health Research Institute Pere Virgili (IISPV), the ICREA Academy 2019 award. The ICREA Academia Program aims to encourage and reward excellence in research and teaching among professionals …

His research has confirmed that people generate new neurons throughout life The researcher María Llorens of the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Center will give a session about the brain regeneration during physiological and pathological aging, tomorrow, February 19, at 12 noon, in the auditorium of …

The first STEM Women’s Congress was held in Barcelona this November. The aim of this congress is to secure a gender balance in the scientific environment by encouraging and supporting women to develop their professional careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Dr. Elisabet Vilella, …