A prosthesis planned with 3D technology allows the recovery of a patient with a serious brain tumour The girl arrived from Rwanda with a large tumour that could have been life-threatening. She has been treated through the Cuida’m solidarity progr...
Share4Rare is born, the first social media network to connect patients, caregivers and researchers of rare diseases around the globe Sant Joan de Déu Research Foundation of Barcelona leads this European project that aims to connect and empower families living with rare diseases,...
Sant Joan de Déu takes part in a European health and education project to promote healthy lifestyles The SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital is part of the European project All@once, promoted by EIT Health, with the aim of teaching healthy lifestyle...
Robotic mannequins with paediatric conditions to train health professionals with simulation For the first time in Spain, the SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital uses simulators that reproduce the anatomical features of children with mucopo...
A Guatemalan child with retinoblastoma, the first patient treated thanks to donations from the Pediatric Cancer Center The treatment is part of the international cooperation programme of the future childhood cancer centre, currently under construction
One in four children with cancer treated by the SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital comes from outside Spain National and international patients arrive seeking highly complex treatments
The SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital successfully operates on a baby girl weighing 1,310 grams suffering from incessant ventricular tachycardia She is the smallest baby in the world to undergo a cardiac ablation
"The specialisation Obstetrics and Gynaecology residents work with has multiplied" Eduard Gratacós, director of BCNatal, reviews the key elements of the Obstetrics and Gynaecology medical intern residency (MIR) at Sant Joan de D...
A brainstem implant allows patients suffering from profound hearing loss to perceive sounds This technique allows the treatment of congenital auditory malformations that in other countries are considered impossible
An international solidarity program allows 10 patients with heart disease to be treated at SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital Our centre is the only one in the state that collaborates with Chain of Hope, an NGO focused on the treatment of congenital heart diseases.
