The dream of a fairer world will take a step in the coming months. Barcelona will capitalize a project that aims to materialize the unfulfilled part of the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations Organization (UNO). Research, ideas, training and advice to treat forgotten diseases that decimate much of the world population. Dr. Pedro Alonso will lead this orchestra launched thanks to "la Caixa", the Catalan Government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Spanish Cooperation, the Hospital Clínic and the University of Barcelona (UB).

Annia Monreal | 3 March 2010

Website 'Youris.com' that offers short videos (8 to 12 minutes) for free on scientific research being done at European level. The videos are accompanied, moreover, with additional written material, including a press release, articles and reviews.

Web site of the ' GuíaSalud ' (Health Guide), an organism of the National Health System (SNS) where 17 autonomous communities participate to promote the elaboration and usage of Clinical Practice Guidelines (GPC) and other tools and products based on scientific evidence.

The Ministry of Health and Social Policy has launched a new newsletter on health issues aimed at patients and citizens. The bulletin "i-Salud" aims to disseminate health information independently, based on scientific evidence, to enable patients and citizens to stay informed and help them make decisions about their health.

8 February 2010

The metasearch 'Clinical Excellence' is a tool that lets you run the same search in different databases. It includes integrated access to the Cochrane Plus Library, journals of secondary solvents, health scares, archives of clinical practice guidelines, technical reports, among others, allowing health professionals to perform their information queries from a single point of liaison with best resources available to them.

'i-Salud' (i-Health) is a newsletter published by the Ministry of Health and Social Policy on health issues aimed at patients and citizens, with the aim of popularizing independent health information based on scientific evidence, enabling them to stay informed and help them to make decisions about your health.

Researchers from University of California in San Francisco (United States) have analysed published studies on the relationship between Alzheimer’s disease and smoking. It indicates that smoking cigarettes is a significant risk factor for the disease. After controlling for study design, quality of the journals, time of publication, and tobacco industry affiliation of the authors, the research team also found an association between tobacco industry affiliation and the conclusions of individual studies. Study findings have been published online in the 'Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease'.

A.R. | 4 February 2010

On the 28th of January in the Farreras Valentí hall from the Clínic, the cycle of the health extension conference Fòrum Salud Clínic of 2010 was inaugurated, responding 'to the will of continuing to perform the function of the "neighbourhood" or proximity hospital and of the teaching vocation of the health centre', said Dr. Raimon Belenes, director and CEO of the Hospital at the presentation and inauguration of the cycle.

4 february 2010

Finding work or a partner through the Internet is no longer something risky, and online business transactions are no longer painful. The network has earned the trust of its users, despite of the existence of interested pressures or jokes that boycott the mesh. But to a world that moves for work, love and health, the time has come to introduce its fortress to the cyber assistance and to telemedicine. In the United States they have understood for a long time now the benefits of e-health. Europe struggles to follow its steps, whilst the United Nations urges the entire planet to change the chip.

Ànnia Monreal | 4 February 2010

Today Monday 18 January at 19.30 h, Josep M. Antó director of CREAL and of CIBERESP, professor at the UPF, and researcher at the IMIM-Hospital del Mar, will participate together with Carme Borrell, director of the Center for Public Health from the Public Health Agency Barcelona, in the discussion at the Aula El País.

18 january 2010

The European Environment Agency (EEA), with support from the European Topic Centre on Land Use and Spatial Information (ETC LUSIS), from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), has developed the first map of exposure to noise at European level. This reveals the extent to which European citizens are exposed to excessive noise pollution. The relationship between environmental pollution and this should allow defining the key factors that cause serious consequences for human health, such as hypertension and sleep disorders.

Staff | 20 november 2009

To defend health as a global problem is not an utopia. To design health policies that deal with illness and its prevention in global terms is not at all ridiculous. It is not, at least, for Harold Varmus, scientific pioneer in the research of oncology, which awarded him the Nobel Price for Medicine and Physiology in 1989, and leader of initiatives like the Public Library of Science that enhance the positive side of globalisation. After having worked as a Director of the American National Institutes of Health (1993, 1999), Varmus in 2000 took on the presidency of the prestigious Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre (MSKCC) in New York.

Xavier Pujol Gebellí | 8 september 2009