What are you looking for? Search Common searches: Departments, Hospitalisation, Professionals, Outpatient clinics, Health advice, Accreditations, Diseases, Diagnostic tests, Treatments, The birth of a child, Emergency, Visiting patients, Fulltext search Tipus de contingut Services and units Professionals Pathologies Health advices Health and wellness Diagnostic tests Treatments News Activities Centers - Any - Search Pathologies Rheumatic polymyalgia Rheumatic polymyalgia is an inflammatory rheumatic disease, of unknown origin, that mainly affects people over 50 and causes pain and rigidity in the shoulder and hip areas (shoulder and pelvic girdles). Between 15% and 30% of cases can be linked to giant cell arteritis. In the immense majority o Pathologies Sjögren's Syndrome Sjögren’s syndrome is a chronic autoimmune disease that mainly affects the glands that produce tears and saliva. It causes dryness of the eyes and mouth, although other organs may also be involved. It is more common in women and is often associated with other autoimmune diseases. Treatment focuse News Dr Xavier Montalban receives the John Dystel Award for Multiple Sclerosis Research The award is a recognition of his contribution to research on the understanding, treatment and prevention of multiple sclerosis. News Dr Amanda Rodríguez presents her book 'Siente lo que comes', in which she analyses the impact of the microbiota on mental health La Dra. Amanda Rodríguez, psiquiatra del Servei de Salut Mental de Vall d’Hebron, explica que una microbiota variada és fonamental en la salut mental de les persones. Pathologies Auto-immune diseases The failure of our immune system to recognise structures, cells or proteins in the body is responsible for the development of systemic autoimmune diseases. We call them ‘autoimmune’ because our immune response mistakenly targets our own body; and ‘systemic’ because they affect different organs an Screens schedule News Vall d’Hebron, the University of Zaragoza, Merck Salud and the Spanish Society of Pathological Anatomy create the Santiago Ramón y Cajal Chair The chair promotes innovative research in the field of biomedical sciences. Professionals M. Elena Élez Fernández Elena Élez is an attending phisicyan of the Gastrointestinal Tumors Service of the Medical Oncology Service of the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital. She is currently also Principal Investigator of the Gastrointestinal Tumor Group and Endocrine of VHIO, headed by Josep Tabernero, director of VHIO. Professionals Alex Martínez Martí Dr Martinez is attending physician of the Iung cancer tumor group of Vall d’Hebron University Hospital (HUVH) and also co-investigator of a large number of phase I, phase II and phase III clinical trials and principal investigator of several of them. News Analysis of placental biomarkers in blood could prevent unnecessary ultrasound scans in fetal growth restriction A new study demonstrates the usefulness of analyzing the sFlt-1/PlGF ratio to classify the severity of fetuses with growth restriction and estimate the time to delivery. Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 152 Next page ››