Eating healthy and avoiding ultra-processed and high-calorie products (pizzas, chips, etc.) promotes the mental health of adolescents and enhances their neuropsychological skills, such as the ability to relate harmoniously with other people or the management of emotions. This is the result of a study led …

Developing a personalised immunotherapy against melanoma, a type of skin cancer, is the aim of the new spin-off company: Nema Health SL.

Tarragona, Thursday September 5. The consumption of nuts to prevent diseases is attracting increasing interest in recent years. A study with more than a million participants from all over the world and led by the IISPV-URV and the University of Copenhagen will make it possible …

MicroRNA (miRNA) profiles, small ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequences, may serve as innovative biomarkers to aid decision-making in the treatment of patients with respiratory diseases.

According to a research led from Lleida based on the implementation of new technologies in health care Gait training on a treadmill and the combination with virtual reality is an effective tool for gait rehabilitation for people diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. This is one …

The Retina Read Risk (RRR) Project, launched in 2022, has made significant strides in improving methods for detecting diabetic retinopathy (DR). This project aims to develop a new vision-screening process for DR, combining advanced hardware and software to offer a safer and more efficient method …

L-HEALTH is a European consortium that seeks to promote excellent clinical practice for all people, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation or gender identity.

The Stroke Team at the Arnau de Vilanova University Hospital in Lleida (HUAV), together with the Neuroscience Group of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRBLleida) and the Medical Emergency System (SEM), presented the results of the REMOTECAT study within the framework of the 10th …

The ADGUT collaborative project seeks to understand the relationship between the microbiota-gut-brain axis and the progression of cognitive alterations associated with Alzheimer’s disease. This project aims to develop personalised preclinical models to prevent the progression of the disease and improve its assessment. Alzheimer’s is an …

According to research led from Lleida, which has analyzed the medical history of nearly 500,000 people over 50 years of age Women with longer lives are less susceptible to multisystem diseases-those that affect more than one organ system, such as the digestive and respiratory systems-than …

According to research led by the Dr. Josep Trueta Biomedical Research Institute of Girona (IDIBGI) Blood levels of ferritin, a protein involved in iron storage, are positively related to executive brain function, which is responsible for skills such as planning, inhibition, flexibility, verbal fluency and …

Silibinin, a natural molecule from milk thistle, blocks a key protein in cancer metastasis that has so far resisted therapeutic manipulation. A study by the Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI) and the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) has identified an inhibitor of a key protein in …