State-of-the-art equipment to launch projects on big data and radiomics, the most innovative branch of medical imaging research. ISMETT, The Ri.MED Foundation, and UPMC are preparing to start precision medicine...Leggi altro

On December 2, Senator Elena Cattaneo visited ISMETT. The motivation of this institutional visit was that ISMETT today represents a fully-fledged Italian and international-level clinical and scientific institution. Mostly known...Leggi altro

Field experts meet in Palermo to show how better care at lower costs is feasible. Improving patient care while saving money: this will be the topic of the 2nd Annual...Leggi altro

Sicilian Center Ranks among the Top 10 Italian Centers for Number of Minimally Invasive Liver Resections. For years she had traveled to specialized hospitals in northern and central Italy, but...Leggi altro

Another ten years together, and the chance to extend the contract for another 9 years if the established goals are achieved Today, at Palazzo Orléans (Palermo), the Region of Sicily...Leggi altro

Expertscape (a U.S. website specialized in medicine ranking healthcare professionals) appointed Italian physician Camillo Ricordi, Director of the Diabetes Research Institute and Cell Transplant Center at the University of Miami...Leggi altro

The girl is the first to survive an aortoesophageal fistula caused by button battery ingestion. The baby had accidentally swallowed a button battery that had caused an aortoesophageal fistula. She...Leggi altro

A new aortic valve with a simplified-technology procedure will reduce the length of hospital stays for patients undergoing minimally invasive cardiac surgery, including Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), improving the...Leggi altro

A liver transplant from a non-beating heart donor was performed in a hospital in southern Italy for the first time. Two kidney transplants were also performed thanks to the same...Leggi altro

FIRST SIMVASTATIN TRIAL GETS UNDERWAY Protect donated livers from the risks of ischemic and reperfusion injury, improving transplants' clinical outcomes.  This is the goal of the clinical research that started...Leggi altro