Skip to main content

What are you looking for?

Write the name, title or any keyword related to what you are looking for and select which content category it belongs to.

News

Simplification of antiretroviral treatment will improve the quality of life of HIV patients

This research has shown the efficacy of dual therapy for HIV treatment, with dolutegravir and lamivudine, compared with the standard treatment with three drugs.

News

Vall d'Hebron organises SIOPEN's AGM on neuroblastomas

The AGM was held between 6 and 8 October at Pompeu Fabra University, bringing together one hundred neuroblastoma experts.

News

40 years since the first HIV diagnosis in Spain

Vall d’Hebron University Hospital diagnosed the first case of HIV in Spain in October 1981. This was a 35 year-old man who was admitted to hospital with Kaposi’s sarcoma and other opportunistic infections.

News

CSL Behring and Vall d'Hebron have signed an agreement for the donation of 54,000€ for research about the treatment of children with immunodeficiencies

The team will carry out a project that will optimize the use of immunoglobulins as a treatment in paediatric patients with primary or secondary immunodeficiencies.

News

New study shows that COVID-19 can damage the placenta of pregnant women

It would be a very rare and potentially fatal placental injury in some fetuses that would lead to abnormal blood flow between mothers and fetuses in the uterus.

News

The winners of the Vall d’Hebron 2020 Photography Competition receive their photographs in sheet format

Dr Albert Salazar, director of Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, and Dr Joan X. Comella, director of the Vall d’Hebron Research, have today presented the winners of the Vall d’Hebron 2020 Photography Competition with their photographs in sheet format. 

News

Dr. Maria Luisa Aznar is invited to a meeting with the President of Angola and King Felipe VI on the occasion of Vall d'Hebron research projects in the African country

The Unit of Tropical Medicine and International Health in Vall d'Hebron works in different projects to promote research and training in Angola since 2007.

News

Vall d’Hebron, committed to cancer research

On the occasion of World Cancer Research Day, we remember the work of VHIO and VHIR researchers to advance in the field of oncology.

News

Iron deficiency is associated with larger infarctions and increased risk of adverse ventricular remodelling, according to a new study of Vall d'Hebron

The study shows that not only excess but also iron deficiency can have detrimental effects in acute myocardial ischemia.

News

Two Vall d'Hebron projects chosen to participate in the CRAASH Barcelona acceleration program

The program, promoted by Biocat in collaboration with CIMIT (Boston), is aimed at entrepreneurs in the process of bringing their technology to market in the next few years.

News

VHIR Annual Report 2020

We present, for the tenth consecutive year, our commitment to communicate our scientific and institutional results of 2020: the multimedia annual report.

News

Families with transplanted children feel more understood due to the widespread use of prevention measures, such as masks

The results of this study led by the Psychiatry Service in Vall d'Hebron are essential to understand the experience of families and patients and assess the need for specific psychological interventions.

News

Vall d’Hebron participa a la Nit Europea de la Recerca 2021

Deu investigadors i investigadores de Vall d’Hebron presenten xerrades i tallers en una jornada de divulgació científica per donar a conèixer la recerca i la innovació.

News

Vall d'Hebron organizes a round table on zoonoses at the Healthio Research Day at Expoquimia

The colloquium has been coordinated and moderated by Dr. Joan X. Comella and Dr. Fernando Salvador. Dr. Pau Bosch also participated.

News

El Llegat Solidari, una forma d’impulsar la recerca a Vall d’Hebron

Avui, Dia Internacional del Llegat Solidari, es commemora la solidaritat mitjançant el testament per millorar la vida de les persones.

News

Vall d'Hebron optimises a model to assay cystic fibrosis and its treatment

The new protocol will help to analyse the functionality of the mutated protein in the disease and test the efficacy of drugs.

News

La Dra. Patricia Pozo, nova secretària honorífica de la Societat Internacional de Cefalea

Per primera vegada en la història de la societat dues dones ocuparan els seus màxims càrrecs, amb la Dra. Cristina Tassorelli com a nova presidenta.

News

Dos professionals de Vall d’Hebron són els ambaixadors del Congrés ERS, el més important del món sobre malalties respiratòries que comença avui

Els professionals són el Dr. Marc Miravitlles i la Dra. Miriam Barrecheguren, investigadors del Grup de Recerca en Pneumologia del VHIR i adjunts del Servei de Pneumologia de l'Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron.

News

El Comitè Multidisciplinari de Càncer de Pàncrees ja ha realitzat 686 avaluacions a 305 pacients

El Comitè Multidisciplinari de Càncer de Pàncrees valora la situació clínica dels pacients de manera individualitzada. El 40% s'ha inclós dins un assaig clínic.

News

La Caixa awards one million euros to a pioneering project to reduce cardiac injury after a heart attack

The project, which proposes light-controlled drugs, and in which VHIR participates, is part of the CaixaResearch Health Call 2021.