Cancer is an important source of stress for those who suffer from it, generating in many cases symptoms of anxiety or depression, what we generically know as emotional distress or psychological distress. Detecting those patients who have a higher risk of developing emotional distress, in order to be able to perform the appropriate psychological interventions, […]
Researchers from the Group of Epidemiology and Pathogenic and Molecular Mechanisms of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology of IDIVAL have participated in a study where the lethality of Pseudomonas aeruginosa was evaluated in bloodstream infections using an animal model. P. aeruginosa bacteria is an important cause of serious hospital infections, especially in immunocompromised patients or […]
In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that 71% of deaths in the world were due to chronic diseases, and this situation was expected to worsen. In this context, the IDIVAL Nursing Group led by Professor Carmen Sarabia, a nurse from the University Nursing School of the University of Cantabria, has recently published a […]
Plitidepsin (Aplidine) is a compound originally isolated from a marine tunicate (Aplidium Albicans) that demonstrated activity against Multiple Myeloma (MM) in preclinical studies conducted in our country by Dr. Enrique Ocio in collaboration with the Dana Farber Cancer Institute (Boston, MA). Aplidine binds to a protein that is overexpressed in MM, eEF1A2 (eukaryotic translation elongation […]
Dementia is not just a disease of the elderly. The team of the Cognitive Impairment Unit has described the case of an Alzheimer's patient with the onset of the first symptoms at age 27, which is one of the earliest reported cases to date. Dementia of early onset is considered to be that affecting people […]
The 4th edition of the SUDOE Program for the period 2014-2020 is open to two thematic priorities of the program (axis 1: Research and innovation and axis 5: Environment and resource efficiency), with an ERDF budget of 12.9 million euros, distributed as follows: Axis 1: Research and innovation Axis 5: Environment and resource efficiency […]
In a recent publication in the prestigious journal The European Journal of Health Economics (JCR impact factor 2,169, quartile 1) under the title “Partner's depression and quality of life among older Europeans” three members of the R&D&i Group in Health Economics and Health Services Management UC-IDIVAL study how the mental health of the couple influences the […]
On July 11th and 12th, 2019, a seminar will be held in Santander during the Summer Courses of the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP by its initials in Spanish) on the Spanish Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy 2021-2027, which will be an opportunity to learn about the progress in defining this strategy, which will be […]
The first volume of the 5th edition of the series of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the classification of tumors in humans will be recently published. This series, known as the blue WHO books, is a reference for the diagnosis of neoplasms in different systems and It is an international standard for those involved in […]
Chronic Lymphatic Leukemia (CLL) is the most common type of leukemia in adults in the West. It mainly affects elderly patients and its incidence is expected to increase due to the progressive increase in life expectancy in our society. Today is an incurable disease, with a development that can be indolent or more aggressive. Knowing […]
