Research The Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and High Specialisation Therapies (ISMETT) has recently launched a tele-health monitoring project for 30 Sicilian liver transplant patients during the post-transplant follow-up period. The new system will allow transplant patients to leave the hospital early and recover at home thanks to a telehealth monitoring system, which comes with an integrated camera, microphone and speakers for interactive video-conferences. Patients can now be monitored and supported from their homes, with the possibility of collecting biometric data, managing their treatment and offering face to face support via video conferencing. The VPH-Share project has now successfully completed its first year of actvities and have just published the first issue of its newsletter. VPH-Share is a 4-year large-scale integrating project funded under the European Community's FP7 aiming at developing the infostructure and integrating the optimised services to: -expose and share data and knowledge, -jointly develop multiscale models for the composition of new VPH workflows, -facilitate collaborations within the VPH community. Drug-resistant epilepsy, Parkinsons and other motor skill problems like for example dystonia, chronic pain and all types of brain cancer are the kind of operation this type of robot could help perfom. The robot, developed within the EU's RoboCast project, is a year away from surgical trials. | 
