Skip to content
  • CAT
  • ESP
  • ENG
  • About us
  • Contact
El·lipse
  • instagram
  • twitter
  • flickr
  • linkdin
  • facebook
  • youtube
  • Research
  • Public engagement
  • Scientific life
  • Community
  • About us
  • Contact
  • instagram
  • twitter
  • flickr
  • linkdin
  • facebook
  • youtube
  • CAT
  • ESP
  • ENG

Public health

26.11.2021

Lack of green spaces in cities: higher mortality and worse child development

04.10.2021

Cognitive performance and stress worsen on the most polluted days

14.09.2021

Cristina O’Callaghan (ISGlobal): “Climate change is a current problem, not an issue of the next century!”

mà demanant ajuda al mig del mar
21.07.2021

Depression affects more than 6% of the European population

Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen is a Research Professor, Director of the Urban Planning, Environment and Health Initiative, and Director of the Air pollution and Urban Environment Programme at ISGlobal. Credit: Jordi Play
02.06.2021

Barcelona in the eyes of an urban health expert

Iris L. Matilla Vaz es enfermera en la unidad de investigación clínica del IMIM, donde se realizan ensayos clínicos en fase I.
20.05.2021

Iris Lioba Matilla Vaz (IMIM): “Without clinical trials, medicine could not move forward”

06.04.2021

Juana Díez (DCEXS-UPF): “We offer scientific reports that help make informed decisions about health policies”

23.03.2021

Denise Naniche (ISGlobal): “The pandemic has shown us that diseases do not know borders”

Image of an industrialized city with high motor-vehicle traffic, likely to have high levels of nitrogen dioxide and fine particles PM2,5
16.02.2021

Tell me where you live and I will tell you about the air you breathe

14.01.2021

The effects of the pandemic on mental health and social inequalities, in the spotlight

07.01.2021

Tobacco residues in the environment, equivalent to “second-hand” smoke

A study of 1,200 children analyzed the trajectory of weight up to the age of four and its relationship with lung function at age seven. Photo by Kelly Sikkema via Unsplash.
29.08.2020

Weight gain in the first years of life can affect lung function

El·lipse is published by the PRBB Communications and Corporate Relations Area.

Dr Aiguader, 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain

For any suggestions or collaborations please contact us at ellipse@prbb.org

  • Read past print editions
  • About El·lipse
  • About the PRBB
  • Legal disclaimer
  • instagram
  • twitter
  • flickr
  • linkdin
  • facebook
  • youtube
© 2026 El·lipse, PRBB
  • Home
  • News
  • Our picks
This website uses cookies that provide us with personal information, such as data associated with your browsing. If you click on I AGREE, both we and our Partners can install cookies or access non-sensitive information on your device in order to facilitate the reproduction of content, provide features on social networks, create profiles and compile statistics on traffic and usability in our website. You can get MORE INFORMATION by accessing our COOKIES POLICY. I agree More information
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT
Subscribe to our mailing list
Want to be the first to know everything that goes on at the biggest biomedical research hub in Southern Europe? Subscribe to the el·lipse newsletter!

We will send you an email with the latest news.

See you soon!

*Required field

Field is not valid
You have to authorize data treatment

At any time, you can exercise the rights of access, rectification, opposition, portability, limitation to treatment and deletion of the data subject to treatment by clicking on the links "Update data" and "Unsubscribe", sending a letter indicating the right exercised to the postal address indicated at the bottom or to the following email address ellipse@prbb.org