Some 40 years since CT scans first revealed abnormalities in the brains of schizophrenia patients, we can now say, that in general (not all patients have) the disorder is a systemic disruption to the brain's entire communication system. This week, the Nature journal Molecular Psychiatry published the largest analysis of “white matter” (fatty brain tissue […]
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an immune-mediated cause of acute neuromuscular paralysis. During the last three decades, the Neurology Service (University Hospital Marques de Valdecilla), collaborating with the Clinical Neurophysiology, Radiology, Pathological Anatomy, and the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology of the University of Cantabria (UC) have done epidemiological, clinical-pathological and nerve ultrasound investigations in […]
As part of the Valdecilla Biosanitary Program, after its success in 2016, IDIVAL called INN-VAL 2017 (VALdecilla INNovación Projects). The aim of these grants is to promote innovation through financing a partial or complete project that facilitate the collaboration of the health sector, the university environment and companies. According to the basis of the call, […]
The next 24th of October at 4:00 p.m., the Cantabrian Minister of Health will present the conference “Human factor: A new approach to organizational health”. At this session will attend world experts in human factor from Medstar National Innovation Center (Washington) and there will be presented new tools for evaluating health technologies; redesigning processes that […]
COST Actions are bottom-up science and technology networks, open to researchers and stakeholders with a duration of four years. They are active through a range of networking tools, such as workshops, conferences, training schools, short-term scientific missions (STSMs), and dissemination activities. COST does not fund research itself. COST prides in its support for high-risk, innovative and emerging research themes. However, COST […]
The presentation of the results of the INNyCRON Call will take place on 31 October at 12:30p.m. in the Assembly Hall at Tower B of the Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital. At this presentation will attend the Minister of Health and the Manager of the Cantabrian Health Service, and next, projects will be presented. The […]
Next October 25th at 8:15am Belén Bornstein, Deputy Director of Evaluation and Promotion of Research at the Institute of Health Carlos III, will give an extraordinary session entitled “Present and future of AES in the context of Translational Research in Biomedicine”. The conference will take place in the Assembly Hall of Tower B at Marqués […]
25th of September 2017, resolution from the Vice-Rector of Research and Knowledge Transfer (UC) and IDIVAL Management Director, which makes public the provisional list of applications admitted, excluded and pending of rectification, to the call for predoctoral contracts in the area of biomedicine, biotechnology and health sciences, published by Resolution of June 12, 2017. Resolution […]
The Biomedical Research Institute Marqués de Valdecilla (IDIVAL) organizes the course “Introduction to Research Methodology” that will take place from the 16th to the 20th of October. This course is aimed at all the sanitary personnel of Cantabria with interest in health research. With this training activity, IDIVAL wants to give to all professionals the […]
Every year there are between 50,000 and 60,000 hip fractures with an annual incidence of 100 cases / 100,000 inhabitants in Spain. The most affected patients are usually elderly at about 80 years of age and three out of four are women. Most hip fractures are solved with surgery as soon as possible. There are […]
