The Ritmocore project has won first prize in the Innovation Procurement Strategy category of the second edition of the European Innovation Procurement Awards (EUIPA), awarded by the European Innovation Council as part of the European Commission's Horizon programme. Ritmocore aims to transform the care management and care of patients with bradycardia and arrhythmias, both those with and without pacemakers
The specialised unit of the Neurology Service of Bellvitge Hospital and the Catalan ALS Foundation Miquel Valls have renewed for four more years their close collaboration, which began in 2009. Strengthening and improving comprehensive and multidisciplinary care for ALS patients continues to be the main goal of the cooperation agreement, which has one of its major novelties in the LinkELA platform and app for online patient care.
Bellvitge University Hospital carried out its 4,000th kidney transplant yesterday afternoon. This milestone comes at a very important moment in this activity, as the centre has been the leader in adult kidney transplants in Spain for three years in a row and because in 2022 it has broken new records, performing more than 30 kidney transplants this November and more than 200 so far this year
To generate the new models a fresh biopsy of the original tumor was implanted into the same mouse tissue. This perfectly reproduces the original morphological and molecular characteristics, and therefore it anticipates the tumor evolution to choose the best treatment.
This treatment, still highly stigmatised, achieves clinical improvement in 75% of cases. Bellvitge University Hospital (HUB), a benchmark in electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), organises the 47th edition of a course that has already trained dozens of professionals.