The research project analyzes the practice of mediation in two public hospitals in the Valencian Community through cases that involved a team of mediators over two years. After working in CRIT research group on issues of intercultural communication, the project coordinators, Francisco J. Raga and Dora Sales, agree that this study seeks to have an [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Health’
A study at the UJI focuses on the importance of mediation in healthcare spheres
May 23rd, 2013
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International Certification of Biótica’s MP4-Hunter system for its quick detection test of Legionella, Legipid
May 20th, 2013
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The AOAC international certification has validated Biótica’s MP4-Hunter. The system developed by the company settled at the Science Park in the Universitat Jaume I enables to perform up to 40 Legionella tests per analyst in an hour. The Legipid® Legionella Fast Detection Test achieves this speed thanks to an analysis technique based on capture and [...]
Biodegradable coating for dental implants
February 4th, 2013
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The elderly, people with osteoporosis, smokers, diabetics or people who have suffered from cancer sometimes cannot choose to get a dental implant since their bones have lost the ability to integrate adequately the new prosthesis that replaces the root. The coating of these implants, using a new biodegradable material developed by researchers from the Universitat [...]
January 27th, 2013
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The widespread belief that dopamine regulates pleasure may pass into history with the latest scientific advances about the function of this neurotransmitter, which demonstrate that, in fact, it regulates motivation, leading individuals to get going and persevere in order to achieve something, either positive or negative. The journal of neuroscience ‘Neuron’ publishes an article written [...]
The importance of an early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
November 28th, 2012
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Dolores Martínez Lozano, neurologist from the Dementia Unit of the Neurology Service at the Hospital La Magdalena, offered a lecture about Dementias and Alzheimer’s disease within the framework of the Brain Week organized by the Degree in Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Universitat Jaume I. During her lecture, Dr. Martínez Lozano [...]
New biologic therapies for the multiple sclerosis treatment
November 16th, 2012
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Antonio Belenguer, neurologist at the Hospital General in Castelló, talked about the multiple sclerosis (MS) treatments in his lecture during the summer course “Multiple sclerosis: how we should deal and act with it from an interdisciplinary perspective” at the Universitat Jaume I. Belenguer highlighted the importance of the early treatment in the MS since it [...]
Developed software that can detect and prevent depression during and after pregnancy
November 16th, 2012
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Despite occur in a high percentage of 6 to 8% in Spain, depression during and after pregnancy has few effective tools for early detection and treatment. Researchers at the Universitat Jaume I and the University of Zaragoza, in collaboration with professionals from different health centres in Spain, are working on developing a psychological on-line assessment [...]
Virtual reality for the welfare of cancer patients
April 19th, 2012
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Researchers of the LabPsitec Laboratory of the Universitat Jaume I are working on the program Psychooncology which consists in applying virtual reality techniques to contribute to the emotional well-being in hospitalized adult cancer patients who are in advanced stage of the disease. It already has an application that exposes patients to two different environments: Joy [...]
Monitored heart bracelets against sudden death in sport
January 16th, 2012
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The use of heart bracelets connected via ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) to a system of tracking and monitoring could prevent cases of sudden death in sports activities. It could also enable an early detection of cardiac abnormalities, the prevention of certain muscle injuries and the improvement in health care times to the athlete. The [...]
Development of doctorate and master’s degree in Nursery in Spain
October 18th, 2011
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This work gathers more than two decades of the effort made by nursing groups in Spain to adapt nursery training to the highest standards of international quality. A long path of hard work, full of difficulties, in which the authors have played a prominent role; an example of will and self-improvement, with an optimistic ending [...]
