Scientific Highlights

January

19/01/2017 Reducing pollution may prevent the mortality of lung-transplanted patients in a 10%

View the news in the media TVE

25/01/2017 Two new markers related to the epithelial permeability in the irritable bowel syndrome

View the news in the media La Vanguardia

February

08/02/2017 Eight Crohn's disease biomarkers discovered that could avoid invasive diagnostic testing

View the news in the media Cuatro

23/02/2017 The brains of people with ADHD suffer delay in the maturation process and has alterations in their structure

View the news in the media TV3

March

23/03/2017 A study with the collaboration of Vall d'Hebron reveals new routes of exposure to elements that can cause pulmonary diseases

View the news in the media Gaceta médica

June

13/06/2017 A study of Vall d’Hebron opens a new therapeutic strategy for melanoma treatment

View the news in the media EFE

22/06/2017 An oral treatment may decrease the consequences of myocardial infarction on heart function

View the news in the media Diario Médico

July

11/07/2017 A new technique allows to identify one of the possible reservoirs of HIV in patients undergoing treatment

View the news in the media Huffington Post

31/07/2017 Alterations in intestinal barrier facilitate the entry of bacteria in Irritable Bowel Syndrome patients

View the news in the media Biotech Spain

August

03/08/2017 A Vall d'Hebron study confirms that diesel particulate pollution can exacerbate soy allergy

View the news in the media Europa Press

31/08/2017 Study with the collaboration of VHIR demonstrates that gene therapy is feasible in stem cells of patients with Fanconi’s anaemia

View the news in the media Medicina TV

September

27/09/2017 The combination of Sotagliflozin and insulin in type 1 diabetes increases by 28% patients who get an optimal control of the disease

View the news in the media Noticias de la Ciencia

October

20/10/2017 VHIR researchers develop new technique to monitor patients and evaluate treatments

View the news in the media Acta Sanitaria

November

02/11/2017 An educational intervention improves the physiological and psychological sensations produced by food

View the news in the media Betevé

07/11/2017 Identified the activation mechanism of the Hedgehog route involved in rhabdomyosarcoma, a type of childhood cancer

View the news in the media IM Médico Hospitalario

22/11/2017 VHIR's study identifies two new genes involved in lung cancer

View the news in the media La Razón

27/11/2017 A study of Vall d'Hebron shows that in the most polluted days more serious heart attacks occur

View the news in the media Antena 3 noticias

December

04/12/2017 VHIR creates a model to study Haemophilia B, a disease that affected European royal families during the 19th century and early 20th century

View the news in the media Diario siglo XXI

20/12/2017 Proven that a protein produced by the kidney could become a therapeutic target for the metabolic síndrome

View the news in the media Redacción
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