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Spanish legislation Vote For 'Equality of sexes'

Spain's Socialist government Friday approved a far-reaching draft legislation that would give 40 percent representation to women in political and business bodies and make sexual harassment a punishable offence.// ....The law, aimed at achieving complete equality between men and women, would force political parties to have at least 40 percent of women on their electoral lists and companies on thei...

Spanish Initiative Looks At Inflammatory Markers To Predict Strokes

Around 52 hospitals in Spain are taking part in an initiative to gauge if any common inflammatory markers appear in the blood of people who have suffered a stroke recently//. The MíTICO study was presented at the IV International Meeting on Isquemic Ictus. ....The study included patients from different Autonomous Communities and that had suffered a stroke one to three months previously. By means...

Spanish flu virus – secrets uncovere

The scientists in the U.S. uncovered the secrets of the deadly Spanish flu that in 1918 took the lives of nearly 50 million people across the world.// ..The pandemic took lives of more people than the World war I. The reason for the severity of the virus was not understood then. ..Dr John Kash, of the University of Washington in Seattle and his team conducted a research by infecting mice with a...

A Spanish Woman Gets A Double Hand Transplant

A 47-year-old woman who lost her hands in a chemical explosion some 19 years ago had double hand transplant done on 30 November//. This is the first of its kind done in Spain, and worldwide first on a woman. ....A surgery team from the Pedro Cavadas Foundation performed this ten- hour operation. ....The leading surgeon Pedro Cavadas said the patient was recovering well and may be released from...

Spanish Doctor to Examine Cuban Leader Castro

A renowned Spanish physician is to examine ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Barcelona's daily El Periodico de Catalunya reported on Sunday.// ....Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido has already flown to Cuba at the request of the country's government. The doctor from Madrid's Gregorio-Maranon Hospital is considered one of the leading experts in the field of general surgery. ....According to the report, Ga...

Spanish Fashion Show Rejects Five Models as too Thin

A top Spanish fashion show, the Pasarela Cibeles, has rejected five models from its team of 69 for being too thin//,the show's nutritionist said. ...."Some of the girls were rejected due to a very low body mass index of 16 - the equivalent of being 1.80 meters and weighing less than 50 kg," said Susana Monereo, who sets the standards for the show with two other doctors. ....Although some models...

Spanish Doctors Performs Worlds First Hand Transplantation Successfully

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Health Tourists Put Spanish Service Under Strain

Waves of tourists have been coming to Spain's sun-kissed eastern and southern coastline for decades and convalescents among them are connoisseurs of the climate's restorative properties. ......But as European integration progresses, more and more health "tourists" and foreign residents buying into the idea of retirement by the sea have been making increasing use of Spain's health facilities -- t...