Category: Updates

On 26 and 27 September the first laser surgery course for the treatment of Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy took place – at the Complex Structure of Urology of the Hospital of Biella.

The course was attended by urologists from both Piedmont and neighboring hospitals, who attended surgical operations performed by the Urological Team Doctors directed by Dr. Stefano Zaramella.

Benign prostatic hypertrophy is a condition that affects men especially in old age and causes urinary difficulties. Treatment is usually pharmacological, but in cases with more severe disorders, an obstructive intervention may be indicated.

Laser surgery is undoubtedly the least invasive treatment in this area, and allows resolving interventions, minimally invasive, without scarring and with minimal bleeding.

The Biella department is one of the few in Piedmont where it is possible to perform the laser treatment at Holmio, the intervention in question is called HOLEP (Holmium Laser Enucleation of Prostate).

Also thanks to this technology, Biella is the sixth regional center in terms of the number of operations performed for prostatic hypertrophy and the first center in Eastern Piedmont (source: PNE-AGENAS).

During the course, interventions were also carried out for very frequent dysfunctions in women, such as urinary incontinence and bladder prolapse, using the most modern mini-invasive laparoscopic techniques.

In fact, from 2017 on this front there is a multidisciplinary clinic called the “Pelvic Team” for the classification and treatment of pelvic floor dysfunctions. Here patients suffering from these pathologies are evaluated jointly by the Urologists, by the gynecologists of the team directed by Dr. Stefano Uccella and, when necessary, also by the Proctologists of the Equipe led by Dr. Roberto Polastri.

Innovation in healthcare is fundamental: a continuous challenge to offer patients increasingly minimally invasive treatments and professionals the opportunity to compete with new technologies.

The first laser surgery course for the treatment of prostatic hypertrophy features the Cassa di Risparmio di Biella Foundation and the Edo and Elvo Tempia Foundation, which in May 2017 donated the Holmium Laser for a total value of 117 thousand euros.

The Biella Rugby Club is pleased to announce its support for the candidacy of Biella Creative City UNESCO 2019.

The Third Paradise logo – donated by Michelangelo Pistoletto as a symbol of the project – will be the “main sponsor” of the 2019/2020 season and will appear in plain sight on the new team jersey game.

“We are about to start our second season in Serie A – declared the President of Biella Rugby Vittorio Musso – aware of having arrived here thanks to the contribution of this city and its territory that has given us young people, athletes, men and women who they worked with passion and determination, thanks to the help of the institutions and municipal administrations that succeeded each other over the years, regardless of the political color they represented. Together with our city, we have built one of the most beautiful sports facilities in Italy… and beyond. In our own small way, we have gathered the creativity of everyone and we have tried to make our sport a vehicle for making the Biella area known. Rugby is a team sport, there is not just one protagonist, just as a territory represents all those who are part of it. We thought we were, for once, the main sponsor of a project and a movement that, for centuries, has created products, trends, developed production processes and innovation. We want to contribute, with great humility but with the same conviction, to making our young people aware of the importance of Biella, the Biella area and its future. A logo on the jersey together with those who represent companies that certainly share our idea“.

“We are happy that a company like Biella Rugby, whose values ​​reside in sports fairness and determination, supports Biella’s candidacy as a UNESCO creative city – comments Franco Ferraris, President of the Cassa di Risparmio di Biella Foundation – The vision that from the years ’70 inspired the extraordinary progress of the club in a land where rugby was an almost unknown sport and the strength of the bear symbol of the team and the territory perfectly reflect the values ​​of the candidacy “.

This is the comment of the mayor Claudio Corradino: “A sporting reality of excellence in the territory such as the Biella Rugby has decided to team up and bring the project of our city to Italian stadiums. This is the right spirit of cohesion that I imagine for a city ready to re-launch itself as a system, just as Pallacanestro Biella demonstrated by dedicating a place to the Unesco candidacy logo on the Supercoppa uniform. Over the years the Municipality has always fully embraced the ideas and values ​​of Biella Rugby, in particular for the development of the citadel, and the path traced is giving great satisfaction“.

The jersey was presented today at the press conference held at the Conference Room of the Cassa di Risparmio di Biella Foundation.

On the occasion of “The Contemporary Day” which will take place on 12 October, the Italian Cultural Institute based in Paris will host this afternoon the Master Michelangelo Pistoletto – initiator of the movement of Poor Art and founder of Cittadellarte – in dialogue with the businesswoman Anna Zegna, President of the Zegna Foundation.

A dialogue between art and entrepreneurship with the Biella area and its excellence in the background in a very important moment for the city that is a candidate for the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in the Crafts & Folk Art cluster.

Today on La Repubblica is published a beautiful interview of the artist who tells the reasons for this event: “The recognition of UNESCO could reinforce what we already do [to Cittadellarte] for a sustainable art and to instill in the Biella people a sense of solidarity and common commitment“.

According to the Master – who made his Third Paradise available as a symbol of the candidacy – Biella deserves to enter this network.

During the evening, will be presented as a preview the documentary “Cittadellarte: practices of responsible art“, by Manuele Cecconello, that will talk about Cittadellarte, which has now become the “center of social regeneration through the relationship with the various areas of common life“, explains Michelangelo himself. .

The Biellese delegation that will accompany the two “testimonials” of the candidacy will also be composed of the Governor of the Piedmont Region Alberto Cirio (since the candidacy of Biella represents the candidacy of Piedmont), by the Mayor of Biella Claudio Corradino and by the Deputy Secretary-General of the Cassa di Risparmio di Biella Foundation Andrea Quaregna.

After the letter of support sent on 17 March – in which the President Ercole Passera expressed his full membership and support for the initiative – the “Pietro Micca” Amateur Sports Association decided to seal its support with two recent initiatives.

During the Pietro Micca Day, an event held on Saturday 7th September at the Zumaglini Gardens, the organizers set up a corner for the creation of “creative portraits” (visible here: #millefiliuntessuto) which are enjoying success on social media and a few days ago they took a photo with a group of athletes attending the Academy of sport with the candidacy banner.

Another confirmation of the team spirit that is continuing to create this path. Thanks!

“Biella deserves this recognition because it has been good at defending a chain that has no equal over the centuries” says Franco Ferraris, President of the Cassa di Risparmio di Biella Foundation in an interview published on la Repubblica Turin yesterday, Monday 23 September.

And he continues: “Here we start from the wad of raw wool to get to the high quality fabric that is exported all over the world: there is no other example, at least in Italy, of a complete cycle like that of Biella“.

The Chief Executive Officer of Ermenegildo Zegna, as well as Chairman of the CRB Foundation, believed from the beginning in the project to bring Biella into the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. With the Municipality he has developed a candidacy that is now preparing for the final sprint: “It is a strategic tool for relaunching the territory. It can really allow us to make a qualitative leap in tourism […]. Basically, to say that Biella is inside the MiTo it is not only a good communicative image of the master Pistoletto. We are really an hour from Turin, a little more from Milan and Genoa […]. But we are also in a decentralized position [… ]. And then you have to be good at getting people to move here“. In fact, the Biellese is “a land where industry, environment and art have gone hand in hand for centuries […]. But we need to communicate. That is why entering the Unesco network would be a nice way to put ourselves at the center“.

A result of the candidacy process has already been achieved: aggregate the Biella area, all united for a common purpose: “Something extraordinary – continues the interview with Ferraris – Precisely because it was able to form a team […] for the first time the 74 mayors of our province have supported a goal together, and Biella, the capital of artisan creativity, has succeeded even in this small miracle“.

For the grenade hearts, he is one of the protagonists of the unforgettable Scudetto won in the 1975-1976 season; for the true football fans it was a bomber that left its mark also in Rome, Florence and Udine; for all it is a World Champion in the National team that won the 1982 World Cup.

We are talking about Francesco “Ciccio” Graziani, who made us have, through the Fondazione FILA Museum team, a nice video that we are proud to share on our social channels (https://www.facebook.com/biellacittacreativa/videos / 2339822549602928 /).

Thanks Ciccio! And thanks to Fondazione FILA for collaboration!