Hospital Clinic

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...	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...	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...
25.04.2012 - 09.30 pm Catalan researchers discover the molecule enabling HIV/AIDS propagation within the body This world important discovery should open new paths to develop new drugs and to ultimately find a vaccine against HIV/AIDS. The finding has been...	13.03.2012 - 10.12 pm World’s pioneering surgery carried out in Barcelona saves the life of a 26 week old foetus A medical team from the Catalan capital’s Hospital Clínic and the Sant Joan de Déu Children’s Hospital, in Greater Barcelona, cured a foetus with a...	23.02.2012 - 11.02 pm A pioneer study led by a Catalan hospital supports an easier way to detect colon cancer Barcelona’s Hospital Clínic has coordinated a world pioneer medical study with 60,000 patients. The study has compared the effectiveness of early...	18.01.2012 - 08.57 pm Catalan hospital is the first one in the world practicing surgery assisted by HD 3D technology Since December, the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona is the only healthcare centre in the world to use a High Definition 3D camera and lens for surgical...
23.11.2011 - 08.21 pm Catalan scientists develop biomarkers for the early detection of babies with learning disorders The brain damage a foetus may suffer during pregnancy is sometimes not detected in the first few years of a child's life. If that damage could...	28.09.2011 - 08.04 pm A vaccine prototype against HIV partially developed by Catalan researchers provokes a positive reaction in 90% of the cases The vaccine MVA-B against HIV gets a 90% immune response in its first test with humans. In addition, after a year, the vaccine proves to still be...	04.08.2011 - 04.10 pm The Hospital Clinic of Barcelona becomes a world pioneer with an innovative kidney extraction procedure The technique is minimally invasive and involves little scarring, a shorter hospital stay and less pain for the donor. So far the Hospital has...	06.06.2011 - 08.55 pm Leukaemia’s genome is sequenced for the first time by scientists from Barcelona and Oviedo Researchers from Barcelona’s Hospital Clínic and the University of Oviedo (Asturias) have sequenced Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia’s entire genome for...
17.05.2011 - 08.06 pm People with Alzheimer’s may not lose their memory during the early stages of the illness Researchers from Barcelona’s Hospital Clínic find other indicators about the beginning of Alzheimer’s. They recommend using alternative biomarkers to...	21.04.2011 - 07.38 pm The 'Fundació Vicente Ferrer' and Barcelona’s Hospital Clínic decrease HIV/AIDS mortality in India The NGO and Barcelona's ‘Hospital Clínic’ have helped decrease HIV/AIDS from 90% to 14% in India’s Anantapur District. Both organisations...	07.04.2011 - 09.01 pm Barcelona’s Hospital Clínic to start virtual medical consultations for HIV-AIDS patients Two hundred patients are already attended by webcam. The number is expected to grow to 500 over next two years.	16.03.2011 - 01.25 pm Abidal to have surgery this Thursday for a liver tumour A tumour in Barça’s French international defender Eric Abidal’s liver has been detected. The player will have surgery this Thursday.