Healthcare

07.03.2013 - 06.26 pm Catalan Grífols buys 60% of Progenika Biopharma and posts a net profit of €257 million The company, which is based in Greater Barcelona, is the world’s third leader in blood derivatives pharmaceutical products. Last year, it bought out...	06.03.2013 - 07.37 pm Survival rate of inoperable lung cancer patients raises to 80% with a pioneering technique developed in Catalonia The Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) has introduced a world pioneering technique which allows four out of five patients who cannot undergo surgery...	15.02.2013 - 08.10 pm A Catalan study shows that a world-pioneering dialysis technique reduces patient mortality by 30% The technique started in Catalonia in 2007 and by 2011 it was practiced on 40% of patients with renal failure. The Catalan Health Ministry hopes to...	07.02.2013 - 10.14 pm Type 1 diabetes has been totally cured for the first time in large animals thanks to the work of Catalan researchers Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have managed to completely cure dogs with type 1 diabetes through a single session of...
05.02.2013 - 06.04 pm Catalonia, leader in organ transplants despite donor reduction A better use of body organs has led to an increase in transplant rates in Catalonia despite a lower number of donors. In 2012, 872 organ transplants...	25.01.2013 - 07.06 pm Catalan scientists discover that umbilical cord stem cells can treat heart attacks and strokes According to experiments tested on mice, Catalan scientists have affirmed that the stem cells located in the human umbilical chord, which are...	17.01.2013 - 11.11 pm Treating HIV just after the infection delays the damage to the immune system An international study with the participation of the Hospital Clínic IDIBAPS, which is a leading research centre at a world level on AIDS/HIV and...	10.01.2013 - 11.08 pm The University of Barcelona and the Hospital Clínic unveil a new biomedicine centre with more than 200 researchers The IDIBAPS has opened a new research centre of more than 5,000 m2, where more than 200 researchers split into 23 different research groups will be...
27.12.2012 - 10.49 pm Catalonia’s pharmaceutical spending dropped by 23.9% in November compared to a year ago Catalonia is the second Autonomous Community, behind Galicia, where drug expenditure decreased the most in November. The austerity measures approved...	12.12.2012 - 10.33 pm Catalan hospital staff members demonstrate to support public healthcare Staff members from Catalonia’s main hospitals, including Sant Pau, Vall d’Hebron, Clínic, Parc Taulí and Germans Trias i Pujol, carried out several...	11.12.2012 - 07.37 pm Two therapeutic targets in a child cancer are identified by Catalan researchers The Barcelona-based Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) has identified two proteins that block the metastasis of rhabdomyosarcoma, a type of...	12.11.2012 - 10.25 pm The key process behind the metastasis of colon cancer is discovered by Catalan scientists Scientists from the Colorectal Cancer Laboratory at the Barcelona Institute of Biomedical Research (IRB) have discovered the essential process that...
24.10.2012 - 10.53 pm Catalan chemists go on strike because of public payment delays Chemists in Catalonia had called to go on strike on Thursday because the Catalan Government owed them two payments for publicly funded drugs....	17.10.2012 - 09.32 pm The Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona discovers a new path for Parkinson’s potential treatments A study developed by researchers from Barcelona’s Center of Regenerative Medicine and California’s Gene Expression Laboratory of the Salk Institute...	18.09.2012 - 05.07 pm Quit smoking with Barça and the European Commission FC Barcelona and the European Commission join forces to help millions of Europeans to give up smoking. The campaign aims at helping 28 million people...	30.08.2012 - 08.20 pm The Catalan Government guarantees primary healthcare to all immigrants registered for at least three months The decision by Spanish Government to restrict access to the public healthcare system could leave 600,000 people in Catalonia (8% of the population)...