Writing has been his refuge. Rubén, who is barely 10 years old, has published his first book of short stories with the aim of raising funds to help her mother to afford the expenses generated by the rare disease he suffers since he was born and that forces him to receive chemotherapy every two weeks. […]
Virgen del Rocío Hospital
3D bioprinting of human hearts made in Andalusia used for surgical planning around the world
Paediatricians, cardiovascular surgeons, engineers and researchers from the University Hospital Virgen del Rocío in Seville and Digitálica, a spin-off company of the Andalusian Public Health System, lead an international project for the 3D bioprinting of children’s hearts aimed at surgical planning. These interventions are mainly focused on the treatment of congenital cardiac malformations, which are […]
Tomás Gómez Cía, innovation’s hands in Andalusian surgery
Tomás Gómez Cía is a doctor born in Pamplona who arrived to Seville in the 80’s to do his residency at the Plastic Surgery Unit at the Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville and today he is the head of this department. In 2010 coordinated the first face transplant in Andalusia, which was also the […]
A device that reduces the need of radiotherapy sessions won our award in the health category
A radiophysicist of the Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville has designed a customisable device able to predict how is going to be the movement of tumours during radiotherapy sessions.