These devices allow patients with severe speech and movement limitations to communicate with the people around them.

The test, which is carried out with the Fundación Catalana de ELA Miquel Valls, is the first experience in Catalonia of the application of these devices from a hospital unit.

CatSalut added eye readers to the portfolio of services of the public health system in the second half of 2019, specifically at the Hospital de Bellvitge

The study, published on Cell & Bioscience, includes two experimental approaches, one with mice and the other one with cell cultures.

This discovery may be the basis for the development of better treatments for this disease and means a paradigm shift

The surgical act was performed in May with a donor from the same hospital.

The recipient is a 54-year-old man affected by dilated cardiomyopathy who has already been discharged and is progressing favorably from the intervention It is the first transplant of this type in Catalonia and the 8th in Spain.

Worldwide, this procedure has also begun to be performed in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Belgium.

So far 1,500 patients have benefited from the ERAS program, which is launched one month before the intervention and which has managed to reduce hospital stays by between 24% and 64% with a high rate of patient satisfaction.

Five hospital services have already implemented the set of protocol measures and six more are in the process of being implemented

This selection was made by a group of experts from the Institute of Coordinates of Governance and Applied Economics

A study of IDIBELL, ICO, and Bellvitge University Hospital shows that exercise not only prevents the loss of neuronal tissue caused by chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Also, patients who follow sports guidelines increase the volume of gray matter in the brain regions involved in memory and learning functions, such as the hippocampus.