The ISCIII through the extraordinary call for research projects on SARS-COV-2 and the Covid-19 disease has financed the project “Seroprevalence against SARS-CoV-2 in pregnant women and newborns” directed by Dr. Cabero -Head of the Pediatrics Service- and Dr. Llorca -Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health-. This project aims to know the impact that COVID-19 […]

The multidisciplinary work team formed by the group of Cell Signaling and Therapeutic Targets in Cancer of IDIVAL; the Optics group of the University of Cantabria (UC) and the Neurosurgery service of the Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital (HUMV); Together with the company Fotoglass, specialized in biomedical optics, a spin off of UC, they have […]

The research group "Melatonin and Breast Cancer" of IDIVAL has recently published in the journal Biomedicines, with impact factor Q1, the article "Melatonin as a Radio-Sensitizer in Cancer". Radiotherapy is one of the treatments of choice in many types of cancer. Adjuvant treatments to radiotherapy try, on one hand, to enhance the response of tumor […]

The Postdoctoral Junior Leader fellowships programme is aimed at hiring excellent researchers, of any nationality, who wish to continue their research career in Spain or Portugal in the STEM area (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).  The Postdoctoral Junior Leader fellowships programme is divided into two different frames: Postdoctorate Junior Leader – Incoming: 30 postdoctoral fellowships […]

The Master and Expert in Direction and Management of Health Services (MADGS) of the University of Cantabria organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of the Government of Cantabria opens the pre-registration period. The thirteenth edition of the Master and the Expert program in Direction and Management of Health Services of the University of […]

This edition of the Inter-Autonomous Meeting on the Legal Protection of the Patient organized for thirteen years by the Menéndez Pelayo International University must necessarily be different from previous editions. The situation of exceptionality derived from the Covid-19 requires modulating this year one of the consolidated seminars in the Spanish panorama in the matter of […]

Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) or Forestier-Rotés-Querol disease is a rheumatic process that mainly affects the spine and is characterized by the tendency to ossification of ligamentous structures, tendons and capsules articular. A research paper has recently been published in the prestigious journal Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, which analyzes the values ​​of the “Trabecular […]

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, activity in Hospital services has been altered. In the case of Urology Units, they have had to adapt to the new context without being guidelines for action to follow. The Spanish Archives of Urology magazine has published the monograph “Recommendations for action in a covid-19 pandemic ”in order […]

Research carried out by professors David Cantarero, Marta Pascual and Javier Lera (members of the R + D + i Group in Health Economics and Management of Health Services UC-IDIVAL) shows the great importance of the lifestyles of our greater in their use of health resources such as consultations and hospitalizations. In general, from the […]

The IDIVAL-UC and CIBER-BBN Photonic Engineering Research Group has demonstrated a fiber optic laser light source that, when integrated into a suitable microscope, allows CARS (Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Microscopy) spectroscopy to be performed. that enables a new way of doing “photonic biopsies” in quasi-real time both in the laboratory and in clinical events. The […]