Four ideas of Vall d'Hebron University Hospital were awarded on Monday, the 19th of November, in the ceremony of the 'Best Ideas of the year in Health' that organizes anually the journal 'Diario Médico' to recognize the task of professionals, institutions and companies that work exploring new fields in research, medicine and health care.In the category 'Management' was awarded the study on the use of the hipotermia in the treatment of stroke and the coordination of this project by the neurovascular diseases group at VHIR, led by Dr. Joan Montaner, and the stroke unit of the hospital, with Dr. Carlos Molina as responsible. It's a study without precedents that keeping the brain in temperatures between 33-34ºC during the six hours after a stroke minimizes the cerebral hurt of the patient.Another prize of the night, in the category of Research and Pharmacology was the maternal fetal medicine that published in 'The Lancet' a study that proves the reduction in 75 % of the premature birth in pregnant women of risk, with the use of a simple pessary. A simple ring of silicone, economic (38 Euros), not invasive and of easy placement and extraction that avoids many premature birth, without surgical intervention.In the same category also was recognized the project of 'Development of the diagnostic kit Clart CMA KRAS BRAF P13K ', in which participates the group of molecular pathology at VHIR together with Genomic SAU. It awards the launch of a diagnostic team that helps the oncologists to optimize the treatment of the colorectal cancer because they can know before if the most usual therapy will have or not a good result in the patient and, therefore, to initiate in time other alternative treatments.And, finally, prize for the The Best Ideas' in the category of Professional Politics for the Program in Intercultural Competence in the Health Area. This award recognizes a program led from the Psychiatry Service of Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, directed by Dr. Miquel Casas, head of the psychiatry group at VHIR, financed by La Obra Social of La Caixa, that allows the professionals' formation that act as intercultural mediators to break the barriers of the lack of comunication and the mutual ignorance between the patients coming from the immigration and the professionals who have to take care of them.