Three schools, Sagrado Corazón (Esclavas), La Salle and La Marina in Bezana, have completed the first phase of the SWI project that IDIVAL carries out in Cantabria. The project involves involving pre-university students (Secondary and high school) in a real research project, aimed at solving one of the most serious human health problems we face: […]
The Health Institute Carlos III has funded the project “Evolutionary study at 5 years in a population with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) previously evaluated with 11C-PIB and 18F-FDG PET / CT” in the call Health Strategic Action 2016, PI 16/01656. The project is led by Dr. Julio Jiménez-Bonilla, Facultative of the Nuclear Medicine Service of […]
Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital and the Biomedical Research Institute (IDIVAL) have set in motion a brain bank to collect, process, store and transfer biological samples donated by patients and individuals without neurological pathology to be used in research projects. This brain bank is coordinated by Dr. Nuria Terán, from the Pathological Anatomy Unit, and […]
Sorafenib is the principal (and until recently the only) first-line systemic treatment for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Despite having been shown to improve survival in 2 randomized clinical trials compared with placebo [Llovet JM et al. N Engl J Med. 2008; 359: 378-90 and Chen A-L et al. Lancet Oncol. 2009; 10: 25-34] […]
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 […]
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 […]
The diagnosis of a joint prosthesis infection is based on a combination of clinical signs, laboratory tests, microbiological, histopathological, intraoperative and imaging studies. However, despite the availability of the various tests, none of them has absolute precision and the diagnosis of joint prosthetic infection remains a challenge. This relative difficulty in performing the diagnosis causes […]
The UC-IDIVAL nanomedicine group has been working for several years in the design of nanomaterials and synthetic nano-structures in diagnostic and medical therapy. Recently, in collaboration with the group of Professor Miguel Correa-Duarte of the CINBIO Health Institute of Vigo, this research team has developed and characterized synthetic structures of morphology and size similar to […]
With an expenditure that currently exceeds oncological and cerebrovascular pathology together, and an exponential increase in the number of cases, dementias are the main challenge facing our socio-health systems. Although we do not yet have treatments that modify the course of these diseases in the last decade, there has been much progress in its diagnosis. […]
