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Meteorological conditions can alter our state of mind and behavior, says top Catalan psychiatrist

Teams of scientists from two hospitals in Catalan capital publish work showing potential breakthroughs in cancer and heart treatments

Twelve women under 35 undergo groundbreaking surgery at Barcelona’s Hospital Clínic to resume ovulation

New Madrid cabinet lifts challenge against legislation enabling migrants with no resident permit to have access to public health care

Using more advanced technology, professionals will be able to respond better to patients' needs at Vall d'Hebron facility

Researchers at the Vall d’Hebron hospital VHIO center uncover new function of already-known HMGA1

Three out of the four individuals in the trial who received deep brain stimulation saw an improved prognosis

Catalan News speaks with Héctor G Palmer regarding findings of Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology

Barcelona Pass Modernisme card includes visits to 15 buildings in nearby towns

The health center predicts treating up to 80 patients in 2018 with this new robotic surgery

Catalan hospital, among four in the world to implant bone-anchored prosthetics to its patients

The Abernethy deformity affects one out of 30,000 children and causes severe complications

The Vall d’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, one of the pioneer hospitals worldwide in non-invasive surgery in children, is planning to use minimally invasive methods with 70 percent of its pediatric surgeries. This week various pediatric surgery specialists gathered in a congress at the Vall d’Hebron Hospital Campus to share their professional expertise. The Vall d’Hebron Hospital is one of the few hospitals capable of performing surgery on a newborn with a weight of less than 1.5 kilograms or on a 24 week-old fetus with spine bifida. Since the incorporation of Doctor Manuel López as Head of Services, pediatric laparoscopy has gotten a new boost. López has set the objective of performing the majority of the 2000 annual surgeries on children with innovative methods.

A clinical trial of a vaccine has proved, for the first time ever, that the immune system of those infected with AIDS can be re-educated in order to control the virus for long periods of time and without taking anti-retroviral drugs. In particular, 5 of the 13 patients whom participated in the trial and stopped their treatment achieved control of the virus for 5, 13, 17, 20 and 27 weeks respectively. The research, which is still ongoing, is being developed in different hospitals in Barcelona and Badalona and is directed by the IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, a leading centre for research into the eradication of HIV/AIDS and related diseases, and the Fight AIDS Foundation, a non-profit organisation that is dedicated to healthcare, research and education in the field of HIV/AIDS, created by Doctor Bonaventura Clotet in 1992.

Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, the Leo Messi Foundation, the FC Barcelona Foundation and the IESE business school have joined forces to launch a campaign to get companies and the general public to help finance the new SJD Pediatric Cancer Center that is being planned for the city of Barcelona. The hospital, which is set to be Europe’s largest dedicated to infantile cancer and the third-biggest worldwide, will cost 30 MEUR. Once functioning, the centre could care for around 400 patients within its 5,137m² installation, which will be located next to Hospital Sant Joan de Déu. If the deadlines are met, the construction of the new centre will start in the second half of 2017 and be ready by 2019. The facility will allow the increase of the recovery rate for infantile cancer, which is currently around 80%, help develop new drugs and reduce the side effects of treatments used.